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The Greater New Orleans Foundation is the community foundation serving the 13-parish region of metropolitan New Orleans.
WE DO OUR WORK BY:
Designing and leading
initiatives to improve the region.
Connecting donors to
community needs.
Identifying and supporting
great nonprofit organizations.
Strengthening civil society.
While growing up in New Orleans I knew this city was special. Where else do you get a week off from school to celebrate Mardi Gras and bask in the sun while listening to multiples stages of soulful music? People know New Orleans is unique because of our long-sta [...]
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Jerry Romig is the public announcer at the New Orleans Saints home games. He has held the job for 41-years out of the 43-year history of the franchise [...]
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Q&A with Leslie Jacobs: former mayoral candidate, education reformer, founder of 504ward and Educate Now. Leslie and her husband Scott are fundholders at the Greater New Orleans Foundation.
When you traveled throughout Orleans parish campaigning for [...]
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Join local celebrities James Carville, Sean Payton, John Besh, and many others who are answering the question: Why do you love New Orleans?
Tell us why you love New Orleans [...]
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In 2009, the Urban League of Greater New Orleans completed an internal review and adopted a Strategic Framework that calls for the Urban League to be an Architect of Change. For the Urban [...]
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Jeff Schwartz is the executive director of Broad Community Connections. He is a native New Orleanian with a Master in City Planning degree from MIT. Broad Community Connections received a grant from the Community IMPACT Program to advocate for the revitalization of our city’s great urban commercial corridor [...]
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What does it mean to go home for the Holidays? For some, “home for the holidays” means going across town to a sibling’s or cousin’s house for a big meal with all the family. Others will “go home” to their old neighborhood to reunite and celebrate with friends and neighbors. School, job, or other life circumstances keep some New Orlea [...]
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New Orleans has always had a close, even essential relationship with water. Almost like a traditional but tempestuous marriage. For better, for worse; for richer, for poorer; in sickness and in health. Early on, the City and its founders were struck by the power and beauty of the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico, but more importantly they…
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Waxings and Wanings from “Moon” Landrieu, mayor of New Orleans between 1970 – 1978 and U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under U.S. President Jimmy Carter…
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