As we mark the fifth anniversary of Katrina, we need to acknowledge the role that nonprofit leaders have played in the region’s recovery. They helped save their neighbors and their neighborhoods. They’ve marshaled armies of volunteers to help rebuild the fabric of our city. Five years later, they’re still at work.
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A Mixed Blessing
It happens every year, but this was not the year to miss. Or was it? The event was the 63 annual Blessing of the Fleet in lower St. Bernard Parish. In the 1940s Father Clemens Sneider introduced this European-style tradition to the fishermen and their families [...]
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My Kind of Home
I’ve spent most of my professional life for the past five years since Hurricane Katrina thinking about home. What home means; what it means to lose a home; and how it feels to be home. I’ve realized that home means so much more than just the physical [...]
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Philanthropy and Community
In looking back over my years of community service, I have been able to see and realize the importance of philanthropy—the giving of one’s time, talent or wealth. Because of my involvement with philanthropy, I’ve been able [...]
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Bird Rescue in Buras
When our media tour group first enters the small warehouse of the International Bird Rescue Research Center, I can’t see the bird being washed. Four staff members in protective gear stand around a large sink full of soapy water. A line of caution tape and an eagle-eyed staff member maintain a safe distance between us [...]
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Bobby McIntyre’s Blunderful Erl
Local philanthropist and jazz musician Bobby McIntyre knows that once you can find the humor in the gravest of situations then you know you’ll be able to survive it. “Sometimes, you just need a little lightness,” said McIntyre when asked why he wrote What a [...]
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Lemons, Booze, Biking, and More to Aid the Gulf Coast
Donations to the Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund from people everywhere will make a big impact in helping our communities recover in the months and years to come. Just as inspiring as the generosity of donors, is the imagination they have used in creating fun, unique fundraisers [...]
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Notes on R*ce
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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Animal Shelter Opens with Philanthropic Dollars
The new Slidell Animal Shelter opened its doors recently to an excited crowd of cats, dogs, and people. The beautiful new building replaces the old, run down, cramped shelter across the street which had been flooded with six feet of water during Hurricane Katrina.
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Despite BP Escrow, Gulf Coast Needs Help
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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National Foundation Marguerite Casey Partners with GNOF
National foundations continue to invest in New Orleans area as evidenced by a new partnership between the Seattle-based Marguerite Casey Foundation and the Greater New Orleans Foundation. Over the next two years, the foundations will strengthen nonprofit [...]
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