Sweet Home New Orleans
Vocalist Olivia Greene is one of the 2,500 local performers who have been helped by the highly successful Sweet Home New Orleans Program. The program provides seed money to well-known local venues which, in turn, hire musicians and offer free [...]
Investing in Young Philanthropists
Operation REACH established the Gulfsouth Youth Action Fund to help young people in New Orleans learn philanthropic skills. Students are taught how community development and social change happens through organized institutional philanthropy and how young people can be inspired by [...]
Somebody Who Cares Lives Here
“Milneburg had always been known as a tree-lined neighborhood,” said Dr. Vera Triplett, as she looked out to the neutral ground on Elysian Fields, but Hurricane Katrina destroyed numerous trees and scattered the population, which she describes as racially and socio-economically diverse. [...]
Nonprofits Sharpen Their Entrepreneurial Skills
The idea came from an environmentally savvy visitor who had consumed several tasty samples of New Orleans’ fried seafood: Recycle some of that shrimp po-boy cooking oil into fuel [...]
Grant Allows GNO Inc. to Fund Economic Development Plan
The shotgun approach would never work. It lacked focus, precision and insight. After Hurricane Katrina, economic development studies listed more than 16 different sectors of the New Orleans areas’ [...]
Citizen Participation Program Will Help Organize Neighborhoods
New Orleans may be a city of neighborhoods, but those neighborhoods have historically been disorganized at best when it comes to citizen participation [...]
