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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.
What do community foundations, oysters, beer, parades, and economic development have in common? This was the question a delegation from the Greater New Orleans Foundation set out to answer as it attended the 2012 Washington Mardi Gras celebrations [...]
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We would like to send our condolences to the family of Dan Forman, director and founder of the Louisiana Outdoors Outreach Program (LOOP). What Dan taught can’t be found in the classroom [...]
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On April 8 of 1973, a horrible tragedy befell the tight-knit community of Algiers. Jo Ellen Smith, a bright and compassionate nursing student, was brutally murdered in the Fischer housing projects while completing the last of her scheduled public health projects [...]
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On the corner of Burgundy and Lamanche streets in the Lower 9th Ward stands a 100 year old building that was once a neighborhood hardware store. If you look closely, you can imagine how it looked [...]
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