Grantseekers
Nonprofits, welcome to our grants and resources homepage. From launching and supporting public schools to upholding and perpetuating our rich cultural history, you are rebuilding the fabric of our city. Thank you for visiting our website.
In 2009, the Foundation granted approximately $18 million to more than 600 nonprofit organizations. Throughout the year, we administer a number of competitive grant cycles, and we suggest you periodically visit the Apply for a Grant section on behalf of your organization.
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The link to the Maison Hospitaliere application is a compressed zip file with no documents I can open. Would appreciate advice.
Dear Karen,
The document was saved in the 2007 version of Word. It has now been changed to the 1997-2003 version. Please let us know if you can’t access this file. Thank you.
When will we hear about the reception of a Freeman Grant?
What has become of the Starbucks Gulf Coast Fund this year?
Dear Angelina,
Thank you for your inquiry. The Starbucks C.O.A.S.T. funding opportunity is not available this year. I encourage you to sign up for the E-newsletter to learn about new and existing funding opportunities.
Established in 1992, Options for Independence is a community based not-for-profit social service agency with the goal of “building better communities, one person at a time”. Options for Independence provides case management services, counseling, life skills training, employment services, housing services, disaster outreach and crisis management services. Following hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Options has touched more than 240,000 lives through crisis counseling and outreach services.
Options has recently been sub-contracted by the Jefferson Parish Human Services Authority (JPHSA) and the South Central Louisiana Human Services Authority (SCLHSA) to provide comprehensive crisis counseling and intervention programs for those impacted by the Gulf Coast oil spill disaster. Options will work in conjunction with the Louisiana Spirit Coastal Recovery Counseling Program (“Louisiana Spirit”) to provide short-term interventions designed to help individuals in Jefferson, Assumption, St. Charles, St. James, Terrebonne, Lafourche, St. John the Baptist and St. Mary parishes to return to their pre-disaster levels of functioning.
In addition, Options Staffing Solutions will provide services to assist those impacted by the disaster with “rapid reattachment” to employment. “Workforce Liaisons” with will work directly with the local, state and federal workforce programs that are developed for the impacted communities. The workforce liaison will recruit and assist Gulf Coast disaster victims to access the training and employment programs as needed. The liaison will also work with local employers to create pathways for new employment for the disaster victims and to promote the skills and talents of the people in the impacted communities.
We are always interested in resources to assist with our mission.
Thanks
A group of us are starting a creative cultural producer worker owned cooperative, Rhythm Conspiracy Productions. The social enterprise agency will provide artist support services, marketing, merchandising event production, new economy consulting and cooperative education and development support services. We are a worker owned social enterprise. Through this agency we intend to assist in opening new economic pathways, creating jobs and alleviate the region’s historic poverty and economic inequality. Do we need a fiscal agent to apply for a grant, since we are not a 501c3?
Treme Community Education Program is a non-profit corporatino whose mission is to improve the quality of life for senior citizens 60 years or older living in the New Orleans area by enhancing the physicial, intellectual, cutural and social well being through a host of activities to enhance their dignity, self work and independence while promoting a wholesome lifestyle.
We are seeking grants to help our enhance our mission. We are very interested in applying for a grant through your Community Impact Program. Would you email me the deadline for your Community Impact Program.
Thank you
Angels Place is a local children’s charity.We help sick and/or dying children & their families. We provide in home/or hospital respite visits by our staff/volunteers to offer help for the cargeivers(Moms/DAds), listen to them, and stay with their child in the hospital room while parent takes a “well deserved break” for a few hours. We also offer many events for our A’s P children& their families during the year. A spring picnic with school students and many Kiwanis Clubs helping; a back to school supply drive for all our A’s P school children, Thanksgiving WalMart cards sent out to our neediest children/family; and a huge Christmas Party at Rummel H.S. with donated new toys/gifts for each A’s P child & their siblings. All our families get a huge bag from Santa(akaAngels Place), with wrapped presents/giftcards for each child in the family. We also attend every funeral of the A’s P childen who die either at home or at the hospital. Please help us with these programs, also a volunteer luncheon is held every year, and fundraisers as we can.
Sincerely,Mrs. Anita Gilford,RN,MSN, Founder/Ex Dir of A’s P since 1993.
Presently we are seeking two key elements. First need a Fiscal Sponsor and second we are seeking a permanent facility to house our organization. Our goal is to provide a transitioinal housing and training facility for homeless Veterans (75%), and Non-Veterans (25%) to come to, for help, in becoming self-sufficient.
When will grants be available to support operating programs in non profit public schools? We are in need of funding to support another reading teacher for Read 180.
Many members of the Greater New Orleans Foundation donor community do in fact support their favorite schools and/or alma maters through their donor-advised funds. If the Foundation were to support individual teaching positions, our funding would be quickly exhausted. We rely on public entities such as city and state governments to fully support services like public education. In our Community IMPACT Program, for example, we give special attention to “systemic change [in education] and on holding public agencies accountable for the success of our public schools.” This includes ensuring that schools are properly reimbursed for all their expenses.
The new grant listing page is great! It’s easy to see available opportunities and determine quickly which match our mission. Thanks!