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.
The Greater New Orleans Foundation teamed up with public radio station WWNO to produce the Community IMPACT Series, a weekly program highlighting nonprofits doing exceptional work in our community. The three to four-minute stories are produced by award-winning, broadcast journalist, Ian McNulty.
HRAC’s overall mission is to make arts and culture more accessible, and that brings special challenges in small Louisiana communities that are often isolated by the region’s unique geography.
Communities in Schools is a national nonprofit that locally serves some 2,500 students in 10 schools. Part of its mission is to reduce the dropout rate, and it does this by harnessing the wealth of resources, skills and compassion in the community and putting that to work directly for students in need.
The nonprofit Children’s Bureau works with a wide spectrum of mental health issues, from individuals with severe mental illness to families going through a divorce to an entire school coping with a violent incident. One of its major programs, called Project LAST, has grown in direct response to what our children are facing.
NOLAYouthMap.org is a new project from the Partnership for Youth Development, a local nonprofit that works with the full spectrum of after-school and summer programs in the metro area, helping them provide better experiences for local kids.
Options for Independence is a nonprofit based in Houma that helps people avoid the feelings of stress and loss that sometimes is found in a coastal lifestyle. Founded in 1992, its social services are broad and diverse, from enabling disabled adults to live on their own to offering family counseling for youth.
Located in Mid-City, the Faith Health Alliance offers primary care to uninsured roughly 95,000 people in the New Orleans area. Fees are based on a patient’s ability to pay, and its approach is a health-coaching program that personalizes and supports its care. Their focus is not just on providing medical care, medications, etc., but also helping the patient make lifestyle changes that help manage health.
Grow Dat Youth Farm aims to help young people develop as leaders through the hands-on work of cultivating a farm together while also answering a community need for better access to fresh vegetables.
The bedrock work of Safe Streets/Strong Communities is to lift up the stories of people it believes have been unfairly targeted by police and wronged by the criminal justice system, to empower victims and survivors to become advocates for change. The group’s work was instrumental in the creation of the Independent Police Monitor, an office formed in 2009 to oversee the NOPD’s internal misconduct investigations.
NOCOG was formed in 2009 to increase civic engagement in decision-making. As a coalition, this nonprofit includes a seemingly disparate array of eight local nonprofits, ranging from the Public Affairs Research Council, a well-established, statewide legislative watchdog, to Puentes and VAYLA, two New Orleans advocacy groups for the Latino and Vietnamese communities. They all share a belief that making government more open and accessible, and creating opportunities for people to get involved, helps advance the issues closer to their own distinct missions.
In 2009, Karen Gadbois and journalist Ariella Cohen founded the Lens as a nonprofit, online investigative journalism outlet. The Lens joined the scene just as other changes were hitting the more traditional media market. While it was initially launched as a web site, concerns about digital access across the city led The Lens to partner with local TV news station Fox 8, with community newspapers, and with others to help reach a broader audience.
