IMPACT
Through the IMPACT Program, the Greater New Orleans Foundation makes grants to organizations serving the Greater New Orleans region. Grants are awarded in six categories: Arts & Culture, Youth Development, Civic Engagement, Education, Health, and Human & Social Services.
The ultimate goal of the IMPACT Program is to create a resilient, sustainable, vibrant, and equitable region in which individuals and families flourish and in which the special character of the New Orleans region and its people is preserved, celebrated, and given the means to develop. Our shorter-term objectives are to:
- Provide a much needed source of financial and other support to nonprofit organizations that are struggling in the current financial environment and that are important to the health and vibrancy of our region.
- Develop a better sense of the nonprofit organizations serving our region so we can more effectively match donor desires with effective charitable work.
- Identify and nurture promising new leaders and initiatives, especially in those communities that are in greatest need.
- Gain knowledge that will help nonprofit leaders and Foundation staff develop better long-term strategies for addressing regional needs and take best advantage of important opportunities.
We also want to thank our generous donors who helped make IMPACT 2011 possible.
Special thanks to Nancy & Michael Marsiglia, Chef Eman Loubier, and our other individual IMPACT donors.
A. Louis & Nathalie O. Read Fund
Barbara & Ben Johnson Family Foundation
Betty & Stanley McDermott, Jr. Fund
Blumenthal-Jepsen Family Fund
Boatner Reily Family Fund
Boh Brothers Construction Co., LLC Fund
Cahn Family Foundation
Carolyn E. Sonnier Fund
Edgar A. G. Bright Fund
Erich & Lea Sternberg Memorial Fund
Erna Deiglmayr Fund
Fenner-French Foundation Fund
First Commerce Corporation Fund
Frank & Winston Purvis Fund
Freeman-Woollam Fund
Freeport-McMoRan Inc. Expansion Arts Fund
Freeport-McMoRan Inc. Fund
George & Mathilde Dreyfous Fund
Harry J. Blumenthal, Jr. Fund
Heymann Fund #2
Jacob Aron Fund
Kitty & Brooke Duncan Fund
L.V. & Stephanie Lamar Foundation
Lemann Family Fund
Leon & Eleanor Sarpy Fund
Leonie & Gus Mayer Fund
Loewenbaum Family Fund
Louis A. & Lillian L. Glazer Family Foundation Inc. Fund
Lucile J. Blum Fund
Marjorie & Fred Kullman 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. Leon S. Cahn Fund
Mr. & Mrs. P. R. Norman Fund
Mr. & Mrs. S. J. Besthoff Fund
Nancy & Michael Marsiglia Fund
Nancy Reeves Dreux Endowment Fund
NOPSI/LP&L Fund
Pan American Life Fund
Patricia & Robert C. McIntyre Fund
R.J. Bynum Fund
Reily Foundation Fund
Robert & Shirley Haspel Fund for Children & Youth
RosaMary Fund
Scott & Leslie Jacobs Fund
Shilling Fund
The Greater New Orleans Foundation Fund
Victor L. Bernard Foundation Fund
Virginia D. Kock Bernard Foundation Fund
W. R. Baird Charitable Trust Fund
Youth Alternatives Fund
The IMPACT 2011 review process was rigorous. The Foundation received over 250 letters of interest from nonprofit organizations applying for grants. The application review process included a site visit by Foundation staff, a careful study of all the financial information for the organization, and a review by the Foundation’s grants committee.
Click here for a list of the 2011 IMPACT grantees.
Click here for a list of the 2010 IMPACT grantees.
Click here for the 2010 IMPACT Grant Guidelines.
Click here for the 2010 IMPACT Proposal Guidelines and Cover Sheet.
Click here for the FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions).
Click here for a list of the 2009 IMPACT grantees.
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