Supporting New Orleans Teachers
Darcy McKinnon works for First Line Schools, a network of New Orleans public charter schools. Her job is to help middle school students pick the right high school among the myriad new options in the fast-changing local education landscape and to make a success [...]
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Our Region’s Charities: Too Good to Fail
While the feds were bailing out large investment banks on Wall Street, our local nonprofit organizations were having a financial crisis of their own. The great majority of them operate on shoestring budgets [...]
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Providing Shelter
In 2009, St. Bernard Parish resident Elizabeth Richardson was the victim of extreme violence. She feels blessed to be alive, though she still grieves for her daughter, India Mahoney, who did not survive [...]
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Fundraising 101
The Greater New Orleans Foundation is pleased to offer to our grantees a Fundraising 101 workshop on Thursday, December 15, 2011. Presented in conjunction with the Louisiana Association of [...]
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One Can’t Succeed Without the Other
Meet Miss Lynn. A resident of the Treme neighborhood for over 20 years, Lynn was one of the first residents to move into the new Faubourg Lafitte housing community. The best seat in the house, she explains, is the one on her porch that overlooks North Galvez [...]
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First Night Back Home
A prayer was the appropriate finale for a ceremony welcoming Gentilly resident Janetta Mistretta back into her home. After all, for her to finally move out of a FEMA trailer and back into her own house with her children seemed nothing short of a miracle [...]
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Evaluation 101
As part of its ongoing Organizational Effectiveness 101 workshop series, the Greater New Orleans Foundation hosted an Evaluation 101 [...]
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Supporting our Charter Schools
After Hurricane Katrina, a group of New Orleans public schools raced to get students back into the classroom and back to the business of learning. As they reopened, however, the leaders of these pioneering schools [...]
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“The past we inherit, but the future we create.”
Giselle Nakhid leads a community dance class early one evening at the Ashé Cultural Arts Center in the Central City neighborhood of New Orleans. The class is called Sistas Making a Change, and as the [...]
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A Powerful Grantseeking Tool
How do you learn best? Do you “D.I.Y.” or do you prefer instruction? You can have it either way with the Foundation Center Online. The Louisiana Association for Nonprofit Organizations (LANO) is holding training sessions [...]
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