Turning the Tide: Saving a Way of Life in Coastal Louisiana

Just Say New Orleans

While dining at the Riverbend bistro, Dante’s Kitchen, you may be surprised to see at the bottom of the menu – Just Say New Orleans – a giving option created by Chef Eman Loubier [...]

Project LAST

The nonprofit Children’s Bureau works with a wide spectrum of mental health issues, from individuals with severe mental illness, to families going through a divorce, to an entire school coping with a violent incident [...]

The Map of Many Services

Twenty one-year-old New Orleans native Nathaniel Jackson is working his way through college, holding down a restaurant job and helping run a new, online community resource called NOLAYouthMap.org [...]

Connecting Donors to Community Needs

Imagine spending 27 years in prison for a crime you didn’t commit. Imagine spending 14 years on death row for a murder you didn’t commit. Meet Norris Henderson and John Thompson, two men who were exonerated after spending decades in Angola [...]

The Lens Wins Award for Story About 9th Ward Homeowner

IMPACT grantee The Lens was honored as the best regional online news operation for audio investigative reporting by the Radio Television Digital News Association. The regional award considers entries from radio, TV, and online news operations in Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, …

Connect for a Cause: Help Your Nonprofit Fundraise

Introducing Connect for a Cause: an innovative way for nonprofits to fundraise. Connect for a Cause provides nonprofits a way to promote meetings with their supporters, Board members, and [...]

City Park: What’s Growing On

In a corner of New Orleans City Park, tucked between the interstate and a bayou, new vegetable rows are sprouting up thanks to a diverse group of local high school students who work at the nonprofit Grow Dat Youth Farm. One of them is 17-year-old Ace Shields [...]

Q&A with Carla Major – Site Director for New Orleans Works

Meet Carla L. Major, the Foundation’s newest employee. We have asked her some questions about the program formerly known as the “New Orleans Regional Workforce Funders Collaborative.” [...]

Safe Streets/Strong Communities

Another fatal shooting happens in New Orleans, and long after the headline fades the grief of the surviving family members remains. Questions about what happened may linger too, especially when New Orleans police officers are involved in the shooting [...]