Marco Cocito Monoc on WWL-TV Discussing Gulf Coast Oil Spil Fund
Marco Cocito Monoc, Ph. D., director of regional initiatives, on WWL-TV discussing the Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund.
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Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund Now Open
Our hearts and prayers go out to the families of the 11 lives lost to the Deepwater Horizon explosion on April 20th. Our thoughts are also with the thousands of people working tirelessly to battle what may become the nation’s worst environmental disaster in [...]
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Bounce on Over
In 1991 in a bar called Ghost Town in the Hollygrove neighborhood of New Orleans, two rappers DJ Irv and MC T Tucker recorded a song that changed the course of the local music scene over the next two decades. The song, called “Where Dey At,” was the genesis [...]
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‘Get on Board’ with Junior League Training
When Kelly Harris moved to New Orleans in 2008, she was looking for a way to meet friends and connections. She found Get on Board, a program run by the Junior League of New Orleans which trains people to serve on nonprofit boards and places them with organizations. [...]
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The Invisible Pull
I was born in New Orleans, just days after my father graduated from LSU Medical School, and lived here during most of his training. We moved to Alexandria when I was five. Even at that tender age, New Orleans was engraved on my heart. I knew I’d be back [...]
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Water Wars: Lessons from Our Neighbors
In Louisiana, when we think of water problems, we think of flooding. It’s hard to imagine that this state could face water scarcity. But with water wars heating up around the country, water is becoming a precious resource that we may need to defend. This issue was [...]
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All Noses in the Same Direction
Perhaps we know them best as producers of Heineken beer, tulips, and cocoa, but the Dutch are exporting something far better to us in New Orleans. It’s their knowledge of how to create a water management system that will make our city both beautiful [...]
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It’s a bird! It’s a ship! Or is it a fish? Maybe it’s a horse…
What is it? It’s Re-Neavus, a sculpture surrounded by cypress trees in an otherwise vacant lot on the corner of St. Claude and Spain, in the middle of the quirky, burgeoning St. Claude Arts District. I can’t decide whether it’s a creature or a vessel. At its bow is a horselike [...]
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Albert Ruesga Addresses the Funders and Donors at the Katrina@5 Conference
Good afternoon and welcome friends to the City of Mystery, the Paris of the South, the Venice of the Gulf; The City That Care Forgot, The Birthplace of Jazz. We just like to call it home. My name is Albert Ruesga and I’m president & CEO of the Greater New Orleans [...]
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Collaborative Investing in Central City
In 2007, a group of funders with a demonstrated commitment to Central City-JPMorgan Chase, the Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Greater New Orleans Foundation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and the Foundation [...]
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