Literacy Alliance of Greater New Orleans

Joann is benefiting from the services of the Literacy Alliance of Greater New Orleans, an organization using innovative approaches to adult learning.

Close Encounters of the Feathered Kind

One day last week I looked out my living room window and saw a flash of green. A parrot was walking along a branch, munching on berries in a tree in my backyard. Going outside to get a closer look, I saw a second parrot in another tree. They called out [...]

A Positive Approach to Reducing School Violence

Walter L. Cohen High School was just beginning to come back after Katrina when it was dealt a public relations blow. A National Geographic documentary filmed at the school called it “the most dangerous high school in the country.” [...]

Nothing Better than Good

About a week after the Super Bowl, I woke up one morning laughing. The evanescent memory of the game had caught a spark again somewhere within my dozy consciousness, and I lay there laughing for no other reason than that the Saints had won and [...]

The Urban Institute

Every facet of the New Orleans housing sector is up for debate as the old status quo is reordered in the city’s recovery. It was clear early on, however, that the local professionals and leaders at the center of all this change wanted and needed better access to [...]

Neighborhood Development Foundation

One cornerstone of a healthy, equitable housing sector is a steady supply of people ready to become homeowners. But making the leap from long-term renter to homeowner is not as easy as simply signing on the dotted line. That’s where the Neighborhood Development [...]

Renaissance Neighborhood Development Corporation

Renaissance Neighborhood Development Corporation looks beyond simply providing places for people to live. Its affordable housing strategy considers the way residents will participate in the surrounding community and the catalyst that rehabilitating blighted properties [...]

The Whole World is Watching

Joyce Wilkerson was recently named executive director of the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority (NORA). She moved to New Orleans from Philadelphia where for decades she was involved in policy-making, including years as chief of staff to Mayor John Street [...]

Root Cause Philanthropy

In his lovely essay, “The Evolving American Foundation,” James Allen Smith describes how the germ metaphor ignited the imaginations of many who worked in the foundation field at the turn of the last century. This metaphor was especially seductive because [...]

Jefferson Community Foundation Awards Grant to Jefferson Chamber Foundation Academy

For Immediate Release

February 17, 2010

CONTACT: Martha Landrum | 504-598-1290 | martha@gnof.org

Jefferson, LA - Wishing to ensure the success of the country’s first charter school to be run by a Chamber of Commerce, the Jefferson Community Foundation recently awarded a grant of $25,000 to the Jefferson Chamber Foundation Academy. The charter school, geared toward [...]