Community Revitalization – Grants Awarded
The Community Revitalization Fund awards grants four times a year. In four years of grantmaking, the CR Fund awarded 60 grants to 48 separate organizations worth totaling over $19.5 million which has allowed for 9,000 new or rehabilitated housing units to bring at least as many families home. Grants range in size from $5,000 to $1,000,000, and in scope from 3-month projects to multi-year commitments.
Grants Awarded 2011
Enterprise Community Partners
To flight blight through targeted, effective property redevelopment. Enterprise plans to support the production of 1,000 homes over the next two years.
Southeast Louisiana Legal Services
In partnership with the Pro Bono Project, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and Louisiana Appleseed received a CR grant to resolve title and heir-ship problems for at least 400 low-income homeowners that are trying to access resources to rehabilitate their homes by engaging local law schools to recruit, train, and mobilize attorneys to provide pro bono legal services.
St. Paul’s Homecoming Center
To complete the renovation of 80 homes to bring up to 320 residents back to Gentilly.
Volunteers of America of Greater New Orleans’ Renaissance Neighborhood Development Corporation
To transform blighted properties into affordable housing.
Grants Awarded 2010
Affordable Housing Advocacy Coalition
To support collaborative planning efforts to design a strategy to build support and community acceptance of affordable housing.
Beacon of Hope
To help Beacon of Hope offer its Neighborhood Revitalization MODEL (Mapping, Outreach, Development, Empowerment, Leadership) to ten Gentilly neighborhoods.
Committee for A Better New Orleans
To support the adoption of the Citizen Participation Program to build citizen capacity to engage in government decision-making and to formalize citizen engagement in the review of the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance and the New Orleans Master Plan.
Crescent Alliance Recovery Effort – United Way for the Greater New Orleans Area
To provide funding for the Double Home Advantage Program of the Crescent Alliance Recovery Effort (CARE) to support the redevelopment of 16 owner-occupied units and 20 rental units in the Mid City Planning District.
Efforts of Grace
To provide funding for the Venus Gardens condominiums on Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard, in order to provide affordable apartments targeted to artists and culture bearers.
Enterprise Corporation of the Delta
To support the establishment of the Mid South Equity Fund to provide equity capital for affordable rental housing throughout the Gulf Opportunity Zone (GOZone) region.
Global Green USA
To support the continued growth of Global Green’s “Build it Back Green” Program, which the Community Revitalization Fund seeded in 2008.
Greater New Orleans Community Data Center
To release a compendium of analyses on seven key transformative initiatives in the New Orleans Metro Area since 2005 and engage local leadership to provide overall strategic guidance on the project.
Greater New Orleans, Inc.
To support an Employer Assisted Housing (EAH) Feasibility and Planning study to determine demand for EAH in the Greater New Orleans Region and to develop an implementation and cost model for an EAH program.
Jericho Road Episcopal Housing Initiative
To provide support for Jericho’s housing program, vacant land management program, and brownfield remediation program.
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)
To provide pre-development loans of up to $50,000 to a minimum of ten organizations. These pre-development loans will enable at least 7 organizations to access construction financing for projects which include 10-35 units of housing each.
Lower 9th Ward Neighborhood Improvement Network Association (NENA)
To augment NENA’s current housing counseling program to provide housing counseling as part of NENA’s Community Land Trust.
Project Home Again
To provide funding for construction management and land acquisition to build 75 energy efficient homes in the St. Anthony and Milneburg neighborhoods of Gentilly.
Sustainable Communities
To support the application from the City of New Orleans to the Sustainable Communities Partnership HUD Challenge/DOT Tiger II grant for the Claiborne Corridor.
Grants Awarded 2009
Center for Urban Redevelopment Excellence, University of Pennsylvania
To supplement Rockefeller Foundation support of the CUREx Scholars Program to improve the quality of the course experience, broaden exposure for scholars to national leaders and help cement networks around the bare framework of the class schedule.
Central City Renaissance Alliance
To develop a common baseline of data and analysis and a resulting unified strategy for investment and development that addresses housing needs at every economic level in Central City.
Gulf Coast Housing Partnership
To build Gulf Coast Housing Partnership’s organizational capacity and project development portfolio to be self-sustaining through developer’s fees by 2012.
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)
To perform an organizational diagnostic for five new Orleans CDCs working with the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority to ensure long-term sustainability in the recovery and rebuilding of New Orleans.
Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation (LDRF)
To extend the contract for a loaned executive to the City of New Orleans Office of Recovery and Development Administration.
Louisiana Housing Alliance
To support the coordination of efforts to retain resources for affordable rental housing.
Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy
To support a partnership between Milano and the University of New Orleans to develop and implement a Community Development Finance Curriculum at UNO.
National Community Land Trust Network
To provide interim technical assistance to entities interested in developing a Community Land Trust initiative in New Orleans.
Neighborhood Development Foundation
To hire an additional homeownership counselor and a CFO.
Neighborhood Housing Services
To provide operating support to sustain NHSNola’s post-Katrina growth across three business lines: the design/build center, the homewonership center, and neighborhood centers.
New Orleans Neighborhood Development Colaborative(NONDC)
To provide funding for Phase 1 of the development of a property information system and a geographic information system that will interface with data systems of the City of New Orleans.
Greater New Orleans Community Data Center
To create reliable data around housing and the recovery that is easy to use and will influence decision making at many levels including the production of an annual housing report.
Operation Helping Hands
To expand the capacity of OHH’s home renovation program to continue to respond to the critical needs of Katrina-impacted elderly and disabled homeowners in Orleans Parish.
Ponchatrain Park Community Development Corporation
To hire staff with relevant experience to lead the redevelopment of Ponchatrain Park. This grant was approved in conjunction with a $500,000 Program Related Investment (PRI) approved to provide client enhancement to the project.
Grants Awarded 2008
ACORN Housing
To assist with the construction of 50 affordable housing units in the Lower Ninth Ward.
Bayou District Foundation
To help purchase lots and vacant homes in the area surrounding the St. Bernard public housing redevelopment site.
Broadmoor Development Corporation
To help expand the Broadmoor Residential Housing Renovation Program for low income, elderly, and disabled Broadmoor residents.
Global Green USA (N.O. Resource Ctr.)
To support Global Green’s Build It Back Right initiative to provided education, advocacy, and technical assistance to residents of New Orleans engaged in rebuilding.
Gulf Coast Housing Partnership
To help an important site in the redevelopment of Central City and hire a CFO and a Partnership/Asset Manager.
Housing Resource Center Network
To implement a collaborative effort to support and build a coordinated network of Housing Resource Centers to serve property owners who have not yet recovered from Katrina.
Humanistas, Inc.
To support the capacity growth and sustainability of the faith-based Community Housing Development Organization.
Jericho Road Episcopal Housing Initiative
To hire and train a housing project manager to drive the development of affordable housing in Central City.
Louisiana Conference of the United Methodist Church Disaster Response Inc. (LCDR)
To support volunteer construction efforts to rehab and rebuild 250 damaged homes for uninsured or under-insured homeowners.
Lower 9th Ward Neighborhood Improvement Network Association
To quicken the pace of the return of 9th ward residents and the resettlement of the Lower 9thWard by providing housing case management to former residents.
Mary Queen of Vietnam CDC
To provide financing for the Mary Queen of Vietnam Retirement Community in Eastern New Orleans.
Neighborhood Housing Services
To support the start-up of the NHS Design/Build program, which is a full service community design center that provides housing and community design assistance for individuals and nonprofits.
New Orleans Redevelopment Authority (NORA)
To develop a property and geographic information system to interface with data systems at the City of New Orleans.
The NHP Foundation
To support the construction and preservation of Walnut Square, a 209-unit mixed-use, mixed-income, affordable rental complex in Eastern New Orleans
Orleans Recovery Foundation, LLC
To fund the hiring of three key housing staff positions at the Office of Recovery and Development Administration.
Preservation Resource Center (PRC)
To hire staff who will advocate to stop the demolition of salvageable, historic homes, educate property owners regarding historic renovation options, purchase, repair and sell blighted historic properties and renovate historic homes owned by low income and elderly New Orleanians.
Preservation Resource Center (PRC)
To support four programs administered by the PRC – the Advocacy, the Education and Outreach, Operation Comeback, and Rebuilding Together New Orleans.
Providence Community Housing
To support the acquisition of properties throughout the Treme and Tulane/Gravier neighborhoods to build and rehabilitate homes for working families and the elderly.
Renaissance Neighborhood Development Corporation
To build 400 units in the Gentilly and Irish Channel neighborhoods and to build staff capacity.
UNITY of Greater New Orleans
To produce 108 workforce and permanent supportive housing units in Mid-City and to support 500 units in the development pipeline by the end of 2010.
Urban Conservancy
To hire an intern to work as a liaison between the Oak Street Commercial District and the surrounding neighborhoods.
Urban Institute
To design and implement the year-long speaker series New Orleans Housing Institute: Strategies that Work
Grants Awarded 2007
City-Works
A matching grant for a feasibility study of the commercial district along South Claiborne serving the Broadmoor and Central City neighborhoods.
National Vacant Properties Campaign (LISC)
To support the first two phases of the Vacant Property Reclamation Assistance Program.
Qatar/Treme Lafitte Renewal Project
To support the project management of a 60 home rehabilitation project serving low-income homeowners in the historic Treme.
