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.
On the corner of Burgundy and Lamanche streets in the Lower 9th Ward stands a 100 year old building that was once a neighborhood hardware store. If you look closely, you can imagine how it looked [...]
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Diana Meyers, registered nurse and fifth generation member of St. Anna’s Episcopal Church on Esplanade Avenue, wanted to change the direction of her life after the storm. After losing her job, and with nothing standing in her way [...]
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Lafayette the French Quarter Cat, the main character of the Greater New Orleans Foundation’s new book, Giving While Living, made his debut Tuesday, Jan. 10 in true New Orleans style, at a book release party on board a streetcar [...]
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Throughout the past year, we have partnered with generous donors and outstanding nonprofit leaders to fulfill our mission: to create a thriving community for all. We’re happy to share with you [...]
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In an ongoing series to build better nonprofits, the Organizational Effectiveness program at the Greater New Orleans Foundation recently offered Fundraising 101 in partnership with the Louisina Association of Nonprofit Organizations. The featured speaker was Nora Ellertsen [...]
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Louisiana’s coastal communities are struggling with hardship and uncertainty due to last year’s oil spill, as a group of Princeton graduate students learned at a panel discussion hosted by GNOF [...]
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Darcy McKinnon works for First Line Schools, a network of New Orleans public charter schools. Her job is to help middle school students pick the right high school among the myriad new options in the fast-changing local education landscape and to make a success [...]
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While the feds were bailing out large investment banks on Wall Street, our local nonprofit organizations were having a financial crisis of their own. The great majority of them operate on shoestring budgets [...]
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In 2009, St. Bernard Parish resident Elizabeth Richardson was the victim of extreme violence. She feels blessed to be alive, though she still grieves for her daughter, India Mahoney, who did not survive [...]
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Meet Miss Lynn. A resident of the Treme neighborhood for over 20 years, Lynn was one of the first residents to move into the new Faubourg Lafitte housing community. The best seat in the house, she explains, is the one on her porch that overlooks North Galvez [...]
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