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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.
Q & A with Mike Butler, owner of the Venice Marina and founding member of the Plaquemines Community Foundation, an affiliate of the Greater New Orleans Foundation.
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From a Cajun and Zydeco Festival in East Sussex, England to a breakfast bar run by a high school senior economics class in Dallas, donations and one-of-a-kind fundraisers are pouring in to help South Louisiana’s communities via the Greater New Orleans Foundation’s [...]
Read the rest of Funky Fundraisers from Far and Wide Benefit Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund »
In 1994, local activist Karin Giger wrote the following impressions about her visit to Breton Sound near the Chandeleur Islands, an area now surrounded by protective booms because of the BP Gulf oil spill.
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I’ve been an oyster fisherman since birth,” said Kuzma Tesvich who with his mother and brother who have been harvesting and trawling oysters for decades off the coast of Louisiana.
Read the rest of 60-Second Interview with Kuzma Tesvich, Oyster Fisherman »
Nearly five years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the nation’s eyes return to our region. Oil is gushing from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill at the rate of 210,000 gallons a day, threatening Louisiana’s coastal communities and wildlife with destruction on an unprecedented [...]
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If there was ever a case to be made for the benefits of maintaining our coastal resiliency, this is it. The oil spewing out of the Deepwater Horizon well threatens to spread oil across the northern Gulf Coast. It is almost certain that fish and wildlife will perish in this event [...]
Read the rest of A Case for Resiliency »
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