Q&A with Melissa Sawyer from the Youth Empowerment Project
Melissa Sawyer is the co-founder and executive director of the Youth Empowerment Project.
The program provides services for vulnerable and out-of-school youth. Prior to opening YEP in 2004, Melissa earned her M.Ed. from [...]
Our Hearts Go Out to the People of Haiti
Our hearts go out to the people of Haiti and to our neighbors in the Greater New Orleans region who have family and friends there. Support for early relief efforts is critical. Equally important will be the longer-term effort to rebuild [...]
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The Will of the People
Q&A with Leslie Jacobs: former mayoral candidate, education reformer, founder of 504ward and Educate Now. Leslie and her husband Scott are fundholders at the Greater New Orleans Foundation.
When you traveled throughout Orleans parish campaigning for [...]
Who Are We and What Do We Do?
When the Greater New Orleans Foundation asked New Orleanians to answer these questions for our new video, they immediately started to talk about the many things they love about their city.
“We are a community of givers,” said WWL-TV’s Angela Hill.
Why Do You Love New Orleans?
Join local celebrities James Carville, Sean Payton, John Besh, and many others who are answering the question: Why do you love New Orleans?
Tell us why you love New Orleans [...]
Q&A with Nolan V. Rollins, president & CEO of the Urban League of Greater New Orleans.
In 2009, the Urban League of Greater New Orleans completed an internal review and adopted a Strategic Framework that calls for the Urban League to be an Architect of Change. For the Urban [...]
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Taking a Broad View
Jeff Schwartz is the executive director of Broad Community Connections. He is a native New Orleanian with a Master in City Planning degree from MIT. Broad Community Connections received a grant from the Community IMPACT Program to advocate for the revitalization of our city’s great urban commercial corridor [...]
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Climbing the Corporate Ladder
Phyllis Cassidy, executive director of Good Work Network, has only to hear Thomas Brown’s name and she breaks out in a broad smile.While Cassidy is proud of many of her 700 Good Work Network members, she has special praise for Brown [...]
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Philanthropic Generosity At Its Best: The Center for Urban Redevelopment Excellence
New Orleans is now benefiting from the knowledge, experience, and passion of a dynamic network of urban redevelopment professionals, thanks to a one-of-a-kind program called the Center for[...]
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GNOF Awards $1M in Grants to Nonprofits at Critical Time
The Greater New Orleans Foundation is pleased to announce the grant recipients from its first annual Community IMPACT Program. We had $1 million available in funding and we received a total of 368 letters of interest requesting well over $12 million [...]
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