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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.
We’ve had seven generations pass since the Emancipation Proclamation, but only two since the end of Jim Crow and one since the last protest over the court-mandated desegregation of Boston’s public schools. It’s been a little more than a year since the [...]
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As oil continues to spew into the Gulf of Mexico more than two months after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that killed 11 workers, pressure is mounting on BP to stop the leak, clean up the oil, and pay for the damages. President Obama has announced a [...]
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Kim Stanton is a recreational fisherman who has fished off the Louisiana coast for more than twenty years. He and his wife Pam volunteered in the oil spill cleanup effort and have this story to share.
My wife and I drove down to Fort Jackson last Sunday morning to volunteer in the pelican
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When fifth grader Jason Goldstein’s gifted program assigned him a community service project to benefit oceans, marine life, or beaches, he talked with his parents about how he would like to do something about the oil spill [...]
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