IMPACT 2011 Grantees Announced
Let’s Celebrate – IMPACT 2011 Grantees Announced
Congratulations to the 33 nonprofit organizations in the Greater New Orleans area who received IMPACT 2011 grants. These nonprofits represent the best of the best in the following four categories: Arts & Culture, Education, Health & Human Services, and Youth Development.
We whole-heartedly applaud these extraordinary organizations that are contributing to the health and vibrancy of our region.
We also want to thank our generous donors who helped make IMPACT 2011 possible.
Special thanks to Nancy & Michael Marsiglia, Chef Eman Loubier, and our other individual IMPACT donors.
A. Louis & Nathalie O. Read Fund
Barbara & Ben Johnson Family Foundation
Betty & Stanley McDermott, Jr. Fund
Blumenthal-Jepsen Family Fund
Boatner Reily Family Fund
Boh Brothers Construction Co., LLC Fund
Cahn Family Foundation
Carolyn E. Sonnier Fund
Edgar A. G. Bright Fund
Erich & Lea Sternberg Memorial Fund
Erna Deiglmayr Fund
Fenner-French Foundation Fund
First Commerce Corporation Fund
Frank & Winston Purvis Fund
Freeman-Woollam Fund
Freeport-McMoRan Inc. Expansion Arts Fund
Freeport-McMoRan Inc. Fund
George & Mathilde Dreyfous Fund
Harry J. Blumenthal, Jr. Fund
Heymann Fund #2
Jacob Aron Fund
Kitty & Brooke Duncan Fund
L.V. & Stephanie Lamar Foundation
Lemann Family Fund
Leon & Eleanor Sarpy Fund
Leonie & Gus Mayer Fund
Loewenbaum Family Fund
Louis A. & Lillian L. Glazer Family Foundation Inc. Fund
Lucile J. Blum Fund
Marjorie & Fred Kullman Fund
Mason Family Fund
Mildred H. & Isaac S. Heller Fund
Moise Steeg Fund
Mr. & Mrs. J. Thomas Lewis Endowment Fund
Mr. & Mrs. Jimmy Heymann Fund
Mr. & Mrs. John J. Graham Fund
Mr. & Mrs. Leon S. Cahn Fund
Mr. & Mrs. P. R. Norman Fund
Mr. & Mrs. S. J. Besthoff Fund
Nancy & Michael Marsiglia Fund
Nancy Reeves Dreux Endowment Fund
NOPSI/LP&L Fund
Pan American Life Fund
Patricia & Robert C. McIntyre Fund
R.J. Bynum Fund
Reily Foundation Fund
Robert & Shirley Haspel Fund for Children & Youth
RosaMary Fund
Scott & Leslie Jacobs Fund
Shilling Fund
The Greater New Orleans Foundation Fund
Victor L. Bernard Foundation Fund
Virginia D. Kock Bernard Foundation Fund
W. R. Baird Charitable Trust Fund
Youth Alternatives Fund
IMPACT 2011 review process was rigorous. The Foundation received over 250 letters of interest from nonprofit organizations applying for grants. The application process included a site visit by a staff member from the Foundation’s program department, a careful study of all the financial information for the organization, a review by the Foundation’s Grants Committee.
Click here for a copy of the IMPACT 2011 press release.
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| Arts & Culture | Education | Health & Human Services | Youth Development | ||
IMPACT 2011 Arts & Culture |
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| Arts Council of New Orleans | The Arts Council of New Orleans is the organization designated as the City’s official arts agency. | ||||
| Contemporary Arts Center | The CAC is a multi-disciplinary arts center which is dedicated to the presentation, production, and promotion of art. | ||||
| Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation | The Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation (LCEF) was created in the spring of 2005 as a catalyst for growing the state’s burgeoning and diverse cultural economy. LCEF’s mission is to be a catalyst for the development and enhancement of the distinct cultural industries of Louisiana by promoting the economic health and quality of life of our cultural economy workforce. | ||||
| Sweet Home New Orleans | Sweet Home New Orleans (SHNO) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support the individuals and organizations that perpetuate New Orleans’ unique musical and cultural traditions. | ||||
| Tekrema Center for Culture and Art | Tekrema was founded in 2002 to serve the Lower 9th Ward neighborhoods of New Orleans. Its mission is to maintain, develop, and preserve African and African Diaspora art and culture by offering performing and visual arts, humanities, and arts education programming related to issues that particularly affect the African-American community. | ||||
IMPACT 2011 Education |
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| The Cowen Institute | The Scott S. Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives is an action-oriented think tank that leverages the resources of the university to improve K-12 public education in New Orleans and beyond. It develops and advances research-based policy, legislative, and programmatic solutions to address challenges that continue to impede providing all children in Louisiana with an excellent public education. The Cowen Institute’s research and policy work focuses on the most critical system-level issues by advocating for adequate and equitable funding, safe facilities, an effective governance model, and strong school accountability. | ||||
| Eastbank Collaborative of Charter Schools | The Eastbank Collaborative of Charter Schools (ECCS), formerly the Louisiana Charter School Alliance, is a formal alliance of 12 public schools in Orleans Parish. The mission of ECCS is to ensure the survival of the charter school reform movement in New Orleans so that parents and students can have access to and choices of high quality schools. | ||||
| Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children (FFLIC) | Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children (FFLIC) began in 2000 as a support group and project of the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana (JJPL). FFLIC is a state-wide membership-based organization that fights for a better life for all of Louisiana’s youth, especially those involved in or targeted by the juvenile justice system. | ||||
| Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools | Founded in early 2006 by a collaboration of community organizers, youth workers, artists, architects, and media experts, Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools seeks to elevate the voices of New Orleans youth so they can influence policy-making about public education and have an impact on the historic changes taking place in the City. | ||||
| Literacy Alliance of GNO | The mission of the Literacy Alliance of Greater New Orleans is to increase adult literacy by ensuring that effective and innovative approaches to adult literacy are available to all and supported by a committed community. The Literacy Alliance was established in December 2002 as the result of a comprehensive community planning process that identified adult illiteracy as a key barrier to our region’s economic success. | ||||
| The Lens | Driven by a desire for transparency and accountability in governance, writers Ariella Cohen and Karen Gadbois founded The Lens in 2009. With a staff of experienced investigative reporters and pundits, The Lens merges the accuracy, fairness, and thoroughness of traditional journalism with the speed, urgency, and interactivity of online media. | ||||
| Urban League of Greater New Orleans | The Urban League of Greater New Orleans (ULGNO) was founded in 1938 by African American businessmen, local religious leaders, the Council of Social Agencies, and the National Urban League Southern Field Secretary, Jesse O. Thomas. ULGNO was founded to improve the economic and social welfare of African Americans. | ||||
IMPACT 2011 Health & Human Services |
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| Covenant House | Covenant House New Orleans (CHNO) has served homeless and at-risk youth in New Orleans for over 20 years. Part of Covenant House International, CHNO was incorporated in 1984 with a local board of directors and is the only residential facility in the area to accept youth ages 16 to 21 and their children. | ||||
| Dental Lifeline Network – Louisiana | The Dental Life Network – Louisiana (formerly the Louisiana Foundation of Dentistry for the Handicapped) is dedicated to the premise that all people, regardless of their physical or mental abilities, deserve a healthy smile. As such, its mission is to make oral health care more accessible to vulnerable individuals who are disabled, elderly, or medically at-risk. | ||||
| Grow Dat Youth Farmer | In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Tulane University’s commitment to civic engagement inspired the creation of Tulane City Center, the outreach arm of the Tulane School of Architecture. Grow Dat, one of the most dynamic of the Center’s Projects, is located in a four-acre site in City Park. Its mission is to develop young leaders through the meaningful work of growing food. | ||||
| Health Law Advocates | Health Law Advocated of Louisiana (HLA/LA) is a charitable, tax-exempt public interest law firm founded in February 2010 whose mission is to provide pro-bono legal representation to low-income residents experiencing difficulty accessing or paying for needed medical services. | ||||
| Jefferson Physicians Foundation | The Jefferson Physicians’ Foundation (JPF) is a 501(c)(3) public charity formed by the Jefferson Parish Medical Society (JPMS) in early 2005 to provide education to physicians and the community-at-large in order to improve the efficient delivery of health care services. Following the destruction of the healthcare delivery system resulting from Hurricane Katrina, the JPF began to focus on supporting projects that enhance and preserve a vital physician workforce and improve access to care for the low-income and uninsured in our community. | ||||
| Kingsley House | Kingsley House was founded in 1896 with the mission of educating children, strengthening families, and building community. Kingsley House is dedicated to increasing the capacities of individuals and families so that they can reach their potential and positively impact the communities in which they live. | ||||
| Latino Farmers Cooperative of Louisiana, Inc. | The Latino Farmers Cooperative of Louisiana, Inc. was formed in March of 2008 by a group of seven members of the Good Shepard Baptist Church in Metairie, LA. The Latino Farmer’s mission is to organize an integrated community food system as a way to better the social and economic life of the community, to enrich the environment, and improve human welfare. | ||||
| Louisiana Consumer Health Coalition | The Louisiana Consumer Healthcare Coalition (LCHC) is a statewide consumer health advocacy organization founded in July 2008 to provide a strong and unified voice for a consumer-centered health care system in Louisiana. | ||||
| Mary Queen of Viet Nam CDC | Mary Queen of Viet Nam Community Development Corporation (MQVN CDC) is committed to preserving and promoting the unique cultural diversity of Greater New Orleans, starting with New Orleans East. The goal of the organization is to improve the quality of life for its residents through economic and social development, community empowerment, and civic engagement, | ||||
| Neighborhoods Partnership Network | Neighborhoods Partnership Network’s (NPN) mission is to improve the quality of life in New Orleans by engaging citizens in neighborhood revitalization and the civic process. NPN’s programs are designed to catalyze neighborhood revitalization and promote opportunities for collaboration. Since its founding in 2006, NPN has developed relationships with over 150 neighborhood organizations across all thirteen planning districts. | ||||
| New Orleans Coalition on Open Governance | The New Orleans Coalition on Open Governance (NOCOG) formed out of a heightened recognition that the old ways of excluding the public from public sector decision-making threatened the composition and sustainability of post-Katrina New Orleans and the region. NOCOG partners recognized that it is critical to address issues of governance rather than solely focusing on sector-specific reforms. | ||||
| New Orleans Faith Health Alliance | New Orleans Faith Health Alliance (NOFHA) is a nonprofit health center located in MidCity at the First Grace United Methodist Church where over 400 uninsured individuals have found a medical home since opening in May 2010. NOFHA’s mission is to provide primary care to the working uninsured in Orleans, Jefferson, Plaquemines, & St. Bernard parishes. | ||||
| NOLA Green Roots | Founded in 2008, NOLA Green Roots turns blighted and vacant lots into community gardens; offers garden training to children, students, and adults; and manages a compost / food waste recycling program for local restaurants. | ||||
| Puentes New Orleans, Inc. | Founded in 2007 Puentes New Orleans, Incorporated is a Latino-serving, Latino-run community development organization that serves the Greater New Orleans Area. Puentes was created to encourage, promote, and advance full community integration of Latino families into the metropolitan New Orleans area through their priorities: social justice advocacy, public safety, inter-ethnic relationships, and creating new Latino first-time home-buyers. | ||||
| Regina Coeli Child Development Center | Regina Coeli Child Development Center is a private, nonprofit corporation which operates fourteen Head Start and Early Head Start center in southeast Louisiana. Their mission is to provide the highest quality of services to children and families through a community team effort based on the question, “Is it good for children?” | ||||
| Workplace Justice Project of Loyola Law Clinic | The Loyola Law Clinic was founded in 1971 and today includes student practitioners representing indigent clients in criminal and immigration defense, criminal prosecution, family law, housing law, community justice, and employment law. The Workplace Justice Project (WJP), the section of the Clinic representing workers in employment law-related matters, was created to meet the needs of Spanish and Portuguese-speaking workers who ventured to New Orleans post-Katrina to clean, reconstruct, and serve in our hotels and restaurants but who were not paid their earned wages and had nowhere to turn to hold their employers legally accountable. | ||||
IMPACT 2011 Youth Development |
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| Communities in Schools | The mission of Communities in Schools is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school, and achieve in life. Communities in Schools is the nation’s leading dropout prevention organization. | ||||
| Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana | JJPL is a statewide nonprofit advocacy organization with a mission to transform the juvenile justice system into one that builds on the strengths of young people, families, and communities to ensure that children are given the greater opportunities to grow and thrive. | ||||
| Partnership for Youth Development | Since 2002, the Partnership for Youth Development (formerly, Greater New Orleans Afterschool Partnership) has served as the only nonprofit intermediary organization in Louisiana leveraging resources for multiple programs serving youth during out-of-school-time. Their mission is to help school-age youth in New Orleans maximize their learning opportunities and educational experiences during out-of-school-time. | ||||
| Safe Streets/Strong Communities | In 2005, Safe Streets emerged as a membership organization that ran campaigns advocating for a new criminal justice system in New Orleans. Safe Streets’ approach is to lift up the stories of the community members most impacted by a broken New Orleans criminal justice system. Safe Streets is rooted in the belief that transparent, democratic, and accountable institutions improve public safety and living conditions for all citizens. More specifically, Safe Streets works with citizens of New Orleans who are unfairly targeted by the justice system and who have been directly and negatively impacted by its failures. | ||||
| Young Audiences of Louisiana/Crossroads Institute | Founded in 1962, Young Audiences of Louisiana (YA) is a nonprofit arts-in-education organization whose mission is to inspire, empower, and connect children and communities through education, arts, and culture. YA develops music, theater, dance, poetry, storytelling, and visual arts programs to enhance and reinforce curriculum guidelines. | ||||
