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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.
While growing up in New Orleans I knew this city was special. Where else do you get a week off from school to celebrate Mardi Gras and bask in the sun while listening to multiples stages of soulful music? People know New Orleans is unique because of our long-sta [...]
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Linetta J. Gilbert is a senior program officer in community philanthropy at the Ford Foundation. She designed and co-directed Ford’s Gulf Coast Transformation Initiative, which oversaw the investment [...]
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One day last week I looked out my living room window and saw a flash of green. A parrot was walking along a branch, munching on berries in a tree in my backyard. Going outside to get a closer look, I saw a second parrot in another tree. They called out [...]
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About a week after the Super Bowl, I woke up one morning laughing. The evanescent memory of the game had caught a spark again somewhere within my dozy consciousness, and I lay there laughing for no other reason than that the Saints had won and [...]
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