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The Greater New Orleans Foundation is the community foundation serving the 13-parish region of metropolitan New Orleans.
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great nonprofit organizations.
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One day last week I looked out my living room window and saw a flash of green. A parrot was walking along a branch, munching on berries in a tree in my backyard. Going outside to get a closer look, I saw a second parrot in another tree. They called out [...]
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About a week after the Super Bowl, I woke up one morning laughing. The evanescent memory of the game had caught a spark again somewhere within my dozy consciousness, and I lay there laughing for no other reason than that the Saints had won and [...]
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Joyce Wilkerson was recently named executive director of the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority (NORA). She moved to New Orleans from Philadelphia where for decades she was involved in policy-making, including years as chief of staff to Mayor John Street [...]
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In his lovely essay, “The Evolving American Foundation,” James Allen Smith describes how the germ metaphor ignited the imaginations of many who worked in the foundation field at the turn of the last century. This metaphor was especially seductive because [...]
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Some eloquent historian will name the pivotal three days of February 5th through the 8th of 2010 in New Orleans. That grand scholar will certainly spin beautiful, descriptive words to describe how residents voted decisively, paraded exuberantly, and cheered our beloved [...]
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OK, people out there in cyberspace, let me start by offering a disclaimer: This is my first blog entry ever. I’m a newbie, neophyte, freshman, dare I say … blog virgin. So, when you read this entry, please be kind.
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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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