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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.
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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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Under the leadership of Michael Hecht, president & CEO of GNO, Inc., the organization is succeeding in positioning New Orleans as an entrepreneurial hub for creative companies.
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Melissa Sawyer is the co-founder and executive director of the Youth Empowerment Project.
The program provides services for vulnerable and out-of-school youth. Prior to opening YEP in 2004, Melissa earned her M.Ed. from [...]
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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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Phyllis Cassidy, executive director of Good Work Network, has only to hear Thomas Brown’s name and she breaks out in a broad smile.While Cassidy is proud of many of her 700 Good Work Network members, she has special praise for Brown [...]
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Tim Walter is CEO and executive director of the Association of Small Foundations, a group of over 3,100 foundations with few or no staff, representative of the vast majority of foundations…
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