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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.
Our hearts and prayers go out to the families of the 11 lives lost to the Deepwater Horizon explosion on April 20th. Our thoughts are also with the thousands of people working tirelessly to battle what may become the nation’s worst environmental disaster in [...]
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In 1991 in a bar called Ghost Town in the Hollygrove neighborhood of New Orleans, two rappers DJ Irv and MC T Tucker recorded a song that changed the course of the local music scene over the next two decades. The song, called “Where Dey At,” was the genesis [...]
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I was born in New Orleans, just days after my father graduated from LSU Medical School, and lived here during most of his training. We moved to Alexandria when I was five. Even at that tender age, New Orleans was engraved on my heart. I knew I’d be back [...]
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In Louisiana, when we think of water problems, we think of flooding. It’s hard to imagine that this state could face water scarcity. But with water wars heating up around the country, water is becoming a precious resource that we may need to defend. This issue was [...]
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Perhaps we know them best as producers of Heineken beer, tulips, and cocoa, but the Dutch are exporting something far better to us in New Orleans. It’s their knowledge of how to create a water management system that will make our city both beautiful [...]
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What is it? It’s Re-Neavus, a sculpture surrounded by cypress trees in an otherwise vacant lot on the corner of St. Claude and Spain, in the middle of the quirky, burgeoning St. Claude Arts District. I can’t decide whether it’s a creature or a vessel. At its bow is a horselike [...]
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