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The Greater New Orleans Foundation is the community foundation serving the 13-parish region of metropolitan New Orleans.
WE DO OUR WORK BY:
Designing and leading
initiatives to improve the region.
Connecting donors to
community needs.
Identifying and supporting
great nonprofit organizations.
Strengthening civil society.
Joyce Wilkerson was recently named executive director of the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority (NORA). She moved to New Orleans from Philadelphia where for decades she was involved in policy-making, including years as chief of staff to Mayor John Street [...]
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In his lovely essay, “The Evolving American Foundation,” James Allen Smith describes how the germ metaphor ignited the imaginations of many who worked in the foundation field at the turn of the last century. This metaphor was especially seductive because [...]
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Some eloquent historian will name the pivotal three days of February 5th through the 8th of 2010 in New Orleans. That grand scholar will certainly spin beautiful, descriptive words to describe how residents voted decisively, paraded exuberantly, and cheered our beloved [...]
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OK, people out there in cyberspace, let me start by offering a disclaimer: This is my first blog entry ever. I’m a newbie, neophyte, freshman, dare I say … blog virgin. So, when you read this entry, please be kind.
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