Grants Awarded
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. The Foundation reviewed all letters of interest and then extended an invitation to 65 nonprofit organizations to submit full proposals. The application process included a site visit by a staff member from the Foundation’s program department, a careful study of all financial information for the organization, and a review by the Foundation’s Grants committee. In addition to the nonprofits listed here, we have listed on our website the nonprofit organizations that we fully reviewed but were unable to support because of limited funding. We applaud whole-heartedly these extraordinary organizations that are contributing to the health and vibrancy of our region.
The Greater New Orleans Foundation would like to extend our appreciation to the donors who made the Community IMPACT Program possible.
A. Louis & Nathalie O. Read Fund
Aage Qvistgaard-Petersen
Adult Literacy Fund
Betty & Stanley McDermott Fund
Blumenthal-Jepsen Family Fund
Boatner Reily Family Fund
Boh Brothers Construction Co., LLC Fund
Cahn Family Foundation
Carolyn E. Sonnier Fund
Chevron Energy for Learning Fund
Edgar A. G. Bright Fund
Erich and Lea Sternberg Memorial Fund
Erna Deiglmayr Fund
Estate of Harold Newman
Fenner-French Foundation Fund
First Commerce Corporation Fund
Frank & Winston Purvis Fund
Freeman-Woollam Fund
Freeport-McMoRan Expansion Arts Fund
Freeport-McMoRan Inc. Fund
Freeport-McMoRan Inc. Recreation Fund
George and Mathilde Dreyfous Fund
Godchaux Charitable Trust Fund
Harry J. Blumenthal, Jr. Fund
Jacob Aron Fund
Joan & Leslie L. Inman Family Fund
Kitty and Brooke Duncan Fund
L.V. and Stephanie Lamar Foundation
Lemann Family Fund
Leon & Eleanor Sarpy Fund
Leonie and Gus Mayer Fund
Loewenbaum Family Fund
Louis A. and Lillian L. Glazer Family Foundation Inc Fund
Louisiana Asian Heritage Foundation
Lucile J. Blum Fund
Marjorie & Fred Kullman Endowment Fund
Mary Leman Goldman Fund
Mason Family Fund
Mildred H. & Isaac S. Heller Fund
Moise Steeg Fund
Mr. & Mrs. J. Thomas Lewis Endowment Fund
Mr. & Mrs. Jimmy Heymann Fund
Mr. & Mrs. John J. Graham Fund
Mr. & Mrs. S. J. Besthoff Fund
Mr. and Mrs. P.R. Norman Fund for the Arts
Nancy & Michael Marsiglia Fund
Nancy Reeves Dreux Endowment Fund
New Orleans Convalescent Home Fund
NOPSI/LP&L Fund
Pan American Life Fund
Patricia & Robert C. McIntyre Fund
Philip Uhl Fund
R.J. Bynum Fund
Reily Foundation Fund
Robert & Shirley Haspel Fund for Children & Youth
Robert and Edwina Reisfeld Foundation
RosaMary Fund
Scott and Leslie Jacobs Fund
Shilling Fund
The Greater New Orleans Foundation Fund
Victor L. Bernard Foundation Fund
Virginia D. Kock Endowment for Education
W. R. Baird Charitable Trust Fund
Youth Alternatives Fund
Categories |
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| Arts & Culture | Civic Engagement | Education | Health | Human Services | Youth Development |
Arts & Culture |
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| Arts Council of New Orleans | The Arts Council of New Orleans is the organization designated as the City’s official arts agency. | ||||
| Contemporary Arts Center | The CAC is a multi-disciplinary arts center which is dedicated to the presentation, production and promotion of art. | ||||
| Junebug Productions, Inc. | Junebug Productions, Inc. is the organizational successor to the Free Southern Theater, which was formed in 1963 to be a cultural arm of the Civil Rights Movement—“a theater for those who have no theater.” | ||||
| Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation | The LCEF seeks to transform cultural skills into economically productive goods. | ||||
| Ogden Museum of Southern Art | The Ogden Museum of Southern Art is home to the largest collection of southern art in the world. | ||||
| Renew Our Music Fund:Sweet Home New Orleans | Sweet Home New Orleans (SHNO) helps musicians, Mardi Gras Indians, and Social Aid & Pleasure Club members get on their feet, earn money from their art, and pass on America’s most unique cultural traditions. | ||||
Civic Engagement |
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| Broad Community Connections | Broad Community Connections is an organization established after Hurricane Katrina to bring new life, commerce, and opportunity to the historic Broad Street corridor. | ||||
| Collaborative Solutions, Inc. | Collaborative Solutions, Inc. operates community and organizational development strategies to improve the lives of low-income persons with special needs. | ||||
| EngageNOLA | EngageNOLA is a coalition of young professional organizations and individuals working to connect their peers to the local civic landscape through education and action initiatives. | ||||
| Good Work Network | Good Work Network is the primary provider of business development services for the small community-based businesses. | ||||
| Gulf Restoration Network | The Gulf Restoration Network is a network of environmental, social justice, and citizens’ groups and individuals committed to restoring the Gulf of Mexico to an ecologically and biologically sustainable condition. | ||||
| HandsOn New Orleans | HandsOn New Orleans organizes and facilitates volunteer activities that mobilize and engage local and existing volunteers. | ||||
| Junior League of New Orleans, Inc. | The Junior League of New Orleans is committed to promoting volunteerism, developing the potential of women and improving our community through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. | ||||
| Metropolitan Crime Commission of N.O., Inc. | The Metropolitan Crime Commission (MCC) is a citizen’s organization dedicated to exposing and eliminating public corruption and to reducing theincidence of crime and improving the administration of justice in order to improve the quality of life for citizens. | ||||
| Puentes New Orleans, Inc | Puentes New Orleans, Incorporated is a Latino serving, Latino run community development organization that serves the Greater New Orleans Area. | ||||
Education |
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| Center for Development & Learning | The Center for Development and Learning specializes in leading-edge research, knowledge, and best practices that improve teaching and increase learning. | ||||
| Digital Opportunity Trust | Digital Opportunity Trust is a international organization that connects people and technology globally. | ||||
| Greater New Orleans Education Foundation | The Greater New Orleans Education Foundation works to assure an effective and quality education for every child in the five-parish region of New Orleans through qualitative review and assessment. | ||||
| Lindy Boggs National Center for Community Literacy | The Lindy Boggs National Center for Community Literacy is dedicated to promoting adult literacy as a vehicle for personal, economic, and community empowerment. | ||||
| Literacy Alliance of Greater New Orleans | The Literacy Alliance of Greater New Orleans works to increase adult literacy by ensuring that effective and innovative approaches to adult literacy are available to all. | ||||
| DBA Eastbank Collaborative of Charter Schools | The Louisiana Charter School Alliance is a collaborative of Charter Schools that aids charter school operations in areas including legal services, financial reporting, teacher recruitment and group purchasing. | ||||
| New Orleans Outreach | New Orleans Outreach seeks to improve the quality of public education by linking volunteers and community resources to respond to the needs of each school. | ||||
| New Orleans Parent Organizing Network | The New Orleans Parent Organizing Network builds strong parent groups that support families in advocating for excellent public schools. | ||||
New Schools for New Orleans |
New Schools for New Orleans is a nonprofit organization dedicated to achieving excellent public schools for every child in New Orleans. | ||||
| Orleans Parish Education Network | The Orleans Parish Education Network is a collaboration of partners whose mission is to bring the full New Orleans community together for a respectful and informed dialogue about the future of public education in the city. | ||||
| STAIR: Start the Adventure in Reading | STAIR is a children’s literacy organization that provides reading tutors for public school students. | ||||
| Vietnamese Initiative in Economic Training | VIET works to develop educational and economic training programs and acts as a resource center. | ||||
| Center for Action Research on School Reforms in New Orleans | The Center for Action Research on School Reforms in New Orleans conducts research on education reforms. | ||||
Health |
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| Harry Tompson Center | The Harry Tompson Center provides a calm and caring environment in which to serve the needs of the poor and homeless in the downtown New Orleans area. | ||||
| Jewish Family Service | Jewish Family Service of Greater New Orleans is a social service agency dedicated to preserving, strengthening and enhancing the well-being and self-sufficiency of individuals and families. | ||||
| Louisiana Public Health Institute | LPHI works to promote and improve the health and quality of life in Louisiana through diverse partnerships with government, foundations, community organizations, academia and private businesses. | ||||
| MarketUmbrella.org | MarketUmbrella.org promotes ecologically sound economic development in the Greater New Orleans area, particularly among family farmers and other local agricultural enterprises. | ||||
| New Orleans Children’s Health Project | The NOCHP delivers high quality, comprehensive primary care and mental health services to children in the New Orleans region. | ||||
| St. Bernard Health Center, Inc. | The St. Bernard Health Center provides a local option for basic health care services to the people of St. Bernard Parish. | ||||
| 504 Health Net | 504HealthNet an organization formed in 2008 to support community health organizations in the Greater New Orleans area. | ||||
Human Services |
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| Employment Rights Consortium, Loyola Law Clinic | The Stuart H. Smith Law Clinic and Center for Social Justice represents indigent clients in criminal and immigration defense, criminal prosecution, family law, housing law, community justice, and employment law. | ||||
| New Orleans Council On Aging, Inc. | The New Orleans Council on Aging exists to protect the rights, promote the well being, and enhance the self-esteem of New Orlean’s elderly by generating opportunities for self-reliance and independence. | ||||
| New Orleans Mission | The New Orleans Mission is the largest private sector provider for the homeless in Mid City New Orleans and provides services which include shelter, food, showers, clothing distribution, a day center, and support services. | ||||
| Responsibility House | Responsibility House provides support and counseling to families and individuals who struggle with substance abuse, homelessness, mental illness, and/or HIV/AIDS. | ||||
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans & Acadiana | The Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana works to alleviate hunger in south Louisiana by working with other nonprofits and government agencies to provide food to those in need. | ||||
| Southeast Louisiana Legal Services Corporation | Southeast Louisiana Legal Services offers low-income people free legal aid for civil legal issues. | ||||
| UNITY of Greater New Orleans | UNITY of Greater New Orleans is the lead agency for a collaborative of 60 nonprofit agencies that provide services for people experiencing homelessness. | ||||
| Urban League of Greater New Orleans | ULGNO works with individuals to attain economic self-sufficiency. It achieves this mission through programmatic services in the areas of education and youth development, community and economic development, and policy and social justice. | ||||
Youth Development |
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| Covenant House New Orleans | Covenant House New Orleans provides a variety of resources to serve homeless and at-risk youth and children in the New Orleans area. | ||||
| Early Childhood and Family Foundation | ECFLF seeks to ensure that all children in Central City enter school ready to learn and that the community around that child is healthy and successful. | ||||
| Greater New Orleans Afterschool Partnership | The Greater New Orleans Afterschool Partnership provides resources to programs that serve children and youth during out of school hours. | ||||
| Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana | Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana is working to transform the juvenile justice system into one that builds on the strengths of young people, families, and communities to ensure that children are given the greatest opportunities to grow and to thrive. | ||||
| Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools | Kids Rethink New Orleans is a collaboration of community organizers, youth workers, artists, architects and media experts that seeks to elevate the voices of New Orleans youth so they can influence policy-making about public education. | ||||
| Operation REACH, Inc. | Operation REACH, Inc. helps children, youth and families succeed in school and life by providing high quality, innovative education programs that work with underserved urban youth to develop academic and social skills. | ||||
Thanks for your message, Mrs. Gilford. Sounds like you’re doing very important work. To receive notification of future grant opportunities, I encourage you to sign up for our electronic newsletter. Just go the “Quick Links” box on our homepage, and click the link that says “Email Newsletter Sign-Up” or try clicking here.
Cliff: We were able to support many organizations that serve the entire metropolitan region, including St. Tammany.
Again, please consider Angels Place, Inc. I began our 501-c3 in 1997, after witnessing our 11 year old son Mark Gilford battle for his life from cancer for 11 months in 1993. BEing a Nurse in Surgery at Ochsner, it was the hardest thing our son, my husband and I had to endure and pray for a positive result. I made a sacred promise to God then to help other local children diagnosed with a life-threatening or terminal illness, and someday build Angels Place Children’s respite/end-of-life home in the GNO area for up to 8 children. I am still waiting for the acre of land, and meanwhile we are helping over 102 sick/dying children + siblings/parents = over 400!
We just held our annual Christmas Party at Rummel H.S. in Metairie with over 100 children attending + their parents and siblings. Everyone received a bag of donated new toys, gifts(from generous donors/ companies around our community. My phone number: 504-455-2620, Merry Christmas, and hope to hear from you.
I wish our local children’s charity, Angels Place, Inc., in Metairie since 1993, would have been selected. We have over 102 very ill and/or dying children in the GNO area we are helping with a staff of 2 F/T and 2 PT people. Add in the family members(Mom/Dad/Siblings) = over 400 being helped. Please notify us next year so we can submit an application. Angels Place, Inc., 4323 Division St, Suite 206, Metairie, La. 70002. Tele (504)455-2620. Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays!
As a Northshore resident why is there no St Tammany non-profits awarded grants??? Am I missing something?
Looks like you did a great job. Congratulations!