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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.
Why did Open Society Foundations (OSF) begin to invest strategically in New Orleans? Starting over a decade ago, the Open Society Foundations’ U.S. Programs focused primarily on supporting efforts [...]
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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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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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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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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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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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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 [...]
Read the rest of Despite BP Escrow, Gulf Coast Needs Help »
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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