Outstanding Nonprofits
| The nonprofits in the first category were invited to submit a proposal to receive a grant from the Community IMPACT Program. The application process included a site visit by a staff member from the Foundation’s program department, and a careful study of all the financial information for the organization. Unfortunately, they did not receive funding simply because of limited resources. We had $1 million available in funding and we received a total of 368 letters of interest requesting well over $12 million.
The Greater New Orleans Foundation would like to extend our appreciation to the donors who made the Community IMPACT Program possible. A. Louis & Nathalie O. Read Fund Louis A. and Lillian L. Glazer Family Foundation Inc Fund |
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| Save Our Cemeteries | Save Our Cemeteries, founded in 1974, is dedicated to the preservation and restoration of the historic cemeteries of New Orleans. |
| Southern Food and Beverage Museum | The Southern Food and Beverage Museum living history organization located in the Riverwalk Market that is dedicated to discovering, understanding, and celebrating the culinary culture of the South. |
| Tennessee Williams Festival | The Tennesee Williams Festival seek to serve the community through educational, theatrical, literary, and musical programs; and to nurture, support, and showcase regional, national and international writers, actors, musicians, and other artists. |
| Evacuteer.org | Evacuteer work to ensure a successful, efficient, sanitary, and safe evacuation of all New Orleanians upon initiation of the City Assisted Evacuation Plan. |
| Neighborhood Housing Service of G.N.O. | Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans, Inc. revitalizes communities by increasing the number of homeowners and transforming vacant or substandard properties into sustainable homeownership. |
| Preservation Resource Center | PRC’s mission is to promote the preservation, restoration and revitalization of New Orleans’ historic architecture and neighborhoods. |
| The Idea Village, Inc. | The Idea Village works to identify, support and retain entrepreneurial talent in New Orleans by providing business resources to high-impact ventures. |
| Communities In Schools of New Orleans, Inc. | Communities In Schools works to connect community resources with schools to help young people succeed in school and life. |
| New Leaders New Schools | New Schools for New Orleans seeks to ensure high academic achievement for every student by attracting and preparing outstanding leaders and supporting the performance of the urban public schools they lead. |
| Mind Body Center of Louisiana | Mind Body Center of Louisiana is an educational organization dedicated to the teaching, training, research, and promotion of mind-body modalities. |
| New Orleans Musician Assistance Foundation | The New Orleans Musicians Assistance Foundation works to keep music alive by sustaining New Orleans musicians and tradition bearers in body, mind and spirit. |
| Trinity Counseling and Training Center | Trinity Counseling and Training Center provides low cost, high quality mental health services to the New Orleans metropolitan area. |
| Just The Right Attitude | Just the Right Attitude works to bring about change in the lives of needy individuals by alleviating the symptoms of poverty by meeting high-priority emergency needs, and working to address the root cause of these needs. |
| WRBH Radio for the Blind and Print Handicapped | WRBH seeks to turn the printed word into the spoken word so that the blind and print handicapped can receive the same ease of access to current information as their sighted peers. |
| Girls First | Girls First works continue to provide sports opportunities to girls in metropolitan New Orleans. |
| Junior Achievement of Greater New Orleans | Junior Achievement of Greater New Orleans works to inspire and prepare young people to successfully participate in our economy through workforce development, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy. |
| The Greater New Orleans Foundation received 368 letters of interest. The following organizations were not requested to submit a proposal, but were put on hold during the process. We were unable to fund these exceptional nonprofit organizations, yet we whole-heartedly applaud their contributions to the health and vibrancy of our region. | |
| 3 Ring Circus Arts Education Center, Inc. | 3 Ring Circus Arts Education Center works to provide arts education and community development through the arts. |
| Capital One UNO Charter Network/ New Beginnings School Foundation | The Capitol One UNO Charter Network is a pre-kindergarten through college learning community. Schools within the network are operated by UNO’s College of Education & Human Development. |
| Efforts of Grace | Efforts of Grace works to produce, present and promote works of art and culture that emphasize the positive contributions people of African descent make to their communities. |
| KID smART | KID smART’s works through arts integration, linking the arts with existing academic curriculum arts to engage children in learning about themselves and the world in which they live. |
| Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra | The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra is dedicated to maintaining live symphonic music and a full-scale symphonic orchestra as an integral part of the cultural and educational life of the New Orleans area. |
| Music National Service | Music National Service supports and expands the use of music to address important civic and social needs. |
| National Performance Network | NPN is a group of diverse cultural organizers, including artists, working to create meaningful partnerships and providing leadership that enables the practice and public experience of contemporary performing and visual arts in the US. |
| National WWII Museum Foundation, Inc | The National WWII Museum Foundation supports the WWII and D-Day Museum, the national museum for WWII. |
| New Orleans Ballet Association | The New Orleans Ballett Association works to cultivate understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of dance through performance, education, and community service. |
| New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation | The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation, Inc. promotes, preserves, perpetuates and encourages the music, culture and heritage of communities in Louisiana. |
| New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, Inc. | To enhance the quality of experiences and lives thru high level jazz programming. Its mission is to inspire freedom and culture in the individual and the global community by creating authentic, engaging Jazz experience. |
| New Orleans Museum of Art | The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) is the premier visual arts museum in the Gulf South. |
| New Orleans Opera Association | New Orleans Opera Association (NOOA) is a producer and presenter of operatic performances in the city of New Orleans. |
| New Orleans Video Access Center | NOVAC’s mission is to foster the creation and appreciation of film and video for a public of diverse ages, income levels and backgrounds. NOVAC accomplishes this mission through education, career development, community outreach, independent productions, |
| The Backstreet Cultural Museum | The Backstreet Cultural Museum features exhibits that reflect the unique cultural traditions and institutions of African-American culture in New Orleans. |
| The NOCCA Institute | The New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts Institute is a regional, pre-professional arts training center that offers secondary school-age children intensive instruction in dance, media arts, music, theatre arts, visual arts, and creative writing. |
| The Roots of Music Inc. | 3 Ring Circus Arts Education Center works to provide arts education and community development through the arts. |
| Broadmoor Improvement Association Incorporated | The BIA is one of the oldest neighborhood associations in New Orleans. Its mission has been to establish and coordinate strong community ties designed to ensure a healthy, vital neighborhood. |
| Committee For A Better New Orleans/Metropolitan Area Committee | The Committee for a Better New Orleans works to provide leadership and catalyze change toward the achievement of a Blueprint for a Better New Orleans. |
| Common Ground Relief | Common Ground Relief provides short term relief for victims of hurricane disasters in the Gulf Coast region, and long term support in rebuilding the communities affected in the New Orleans area. |
| Edible Schoolyard New Orleans | The Edible Schoolyard NOLA works to change the way public school children eat, learn and live by integrating organic gardening and seasonal cooking into school curriculum. |
| Faubourg St. Roch Project | The Faubourg St. Roch Project is an organization of neighborhood activists working towards the renaissance of one of New Orlean’s most historic, urban neighborhoods. |
| Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center | The Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center works to eradicate housing discrimination throughout the greater New Orleans area. |
| Greater New Orleans, Inc. | GNO, Inc. serves as the catalyst for community wealth creation by serving as the central coordinator and manager for economic development initiatives that increase jobs. |
| Latino Farmers Cooperative of Louisiana | LFCL serves emerging farmers, enthusiastic gardeners and conscientious consumers by working together to provide access to farmland, resources, education and training so members can grow healthy food in urban sustainable farms, foster entrepreneurship and address the socioeconomic issues of the Latino community. |
| Louisiana Appleseed | Louisiana Appleseed is a legal aid organization that uncovers and corrects injustices and barriers to opportunity through legal, legislative and market-based structural reform. |
| Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organization | LANO is a statewide network of nonprofits, foundations, corporations and individuals from every region of the state, dedicated to supporting Louisiana’s nonprofit sector. |
| Louisiana Housing Alliance | Louisiana Housing Alliance is a coalition of more than 100 state and national organizations that work together to ensure the preservation and production of quality, affordable housing for low and moderate income Louisianians as well as those with special needs. |
| Lower 9th Ward Neighborhood Empowerment Network Association | The Lower 9th Ward Neighborhood Empowerment Network Association works to empower residents of the Lower 9th Ward to play a vital role in the neighborhood’s post-Katrina development. |
| New Orleans Bayou Steppers Social Aid and Pleasure Club | The New Orleans Bayou Steppers Social Aid and Pleasure Club works to bring people together to promote, preserve, perpetuate, and celebrate the music and culture of New Orleans, especially as embodied in the tradition of the Second Line. |
| Nonprofit Knowledge Works | Nonprofit Knowledge Works enhances the management capacity of the local civic sector and provides information-driven, systemic and effective solutions to community problems. |
| The New Orleans Food and Farm Network (NOFFN) | The New Orleans Food and Farm Network works with individuals, communities, consumers, and growers to support sustainable growing practices and to ensure access to and the knowledge of how to prepare safe, nutritious, enjoyable food. |
| The Urban Conservancy | The Urban Conservancy engages in research, education and advocacy promoting the wise stewardship of the urban built environment and the local economies. |
| United Nonprofits of Greater New Orleans | Unified Nonprofits of Greater New Orleans works to provide a unified voice for the nonprofit sector in the recovery and rebuilding of New Orleans. |
| VAYLA-NO | The Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association of New Orleans is a youth-led, community-based organization dedicated to the empowerment of Vietnamese American youth. |
| Vera Institute of Justice, Inc | The Vera Institute of Justice combines expertise in research, demonstration projects, and technical assistance to help leaders in government and civil society improve the systems people rely on for justice and safety. |
| VIA Link | VIA LINK connects people and organizations with information and resources to enable them to help themselves and others. |
| Young Leadership Council | The Young Leadership Council is a non-profit, non-partisan civic organization created to develop leadership through community projects. |
| Bayou District Foundation | The Bayou District Foundation works to provide an environment focused on education that enables children and families to escape the cycle of poverty. |
| Foundation for Science & Mathematics Education, Inc. | The Foundation for Science & Mathematics Education, Inc. supports the New Orleans Charter Science and Math High School as well as the New Orleans Charter Science and Mathematics Academy. |
| Louisiana Children’s Museum | The Louisiana Children’s Museum is the oldest and largest children’s museum in the state. |
| Teach for America – GNO | Teach For America works to eliminate educational inequity by building a highly selective corps of our nation’s most promising future leaders. |
| Teaching Responsible Earth Education (TREE) | T.R.E.E. works to educate children and adults about the life science processes that govern our planet. |
| The Trust for Public Land, Southeast Region | The Trust for Public Land has joined forces with the City Park Improvement Association to lead the Big Lake Project to be located near the park’s entrance. |
| Family Service of Greater New Orleans | Family Service of Greater New Orleans works to strengthen the emotional health and foster the self-sufficiency of families and individuals. |
| In This Together | In This Together, Inc. works to provide positive opportunities for persons with life challenging illness through empowerment, education and supportive services designed to enhance the individual’s quality of life. |
| Odyssey House Louisiana, Inc. | Odyssey House Louisiana is a nonprofit behavioral healthcare facility with the mission of empowering people to conquer addiction. |
| Project Lazarus | Project Lazarus provides services to people living with AIDS who can no longer live independently. |
| St. Bernard Project | The St. Bernard Project is a nonprofit disaster rebuilding organization serving the residents of St. Bernard and Orleans parishes. |
| St. Charles Community Health Center | St. Charles Community Health Center works to provide accessible high quality health care through collaborative community efforts, to promote prevention and coordinate treatment, and to improve the health care status of our community. |
| The Eyes Have It! | The Eyes Have It, Inc. works with local vision care providers to ensure that children in the area have access to vision screening and care. |
| Common Ground Relief | Common Ground Relief provides short term relief for victims of hurricane disasters in the Gulf Coast region, and long term support in rebuilding the communities affected in the New Orleans area. |
| Bridge House | The Bridge House offers free drug and alcohol rehabilitation to individuals struggling with addiction. |
| Community Center of St. Bernard | The Community Center of St Bernard provides disaster-recovery assistance to individuals and families affected by hurricane Katrina. |
| Concerned Citizens for a Better Algiers | Concerned Citizens for a Better Algiers provides housing and job training services for low- and middle-income Algiers residents. |
| Epilepsy Foundation of Southeast LA | The Epilepsy Foundation of Louisiana serves people with epilepsy and seizure disorder. |
| Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children | Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children is a statewide membership-based organization that fights for a better life for youth involved in the juvenile justice system. |
| Greater New Orleans Disaster Recovery Partnership | The Greater New Orleans Disaster Recovery Partnership is a consortium of over 50 non-profit and faith-based organizations committed to the maximized and equitable delivery of recovery resources and services to disaster-impacted people in Southeast Louisiana. |
| House of Ruth, Inc. | The House of Ruth provides homeless families and families in crisis with opportunities to regain independence through stable housing and employment. |
| Lindy’s Place | Lindy’s Place endeavors to assist homeless women with their attempts to break the cycle of homelessness, unemployment, and poverty by empowering them to become emotionally and economically self-sufficient. |
| Marianites of Holy Cross | Marianites of Holy Cross works to assist residents of zip code 70117 to meet their financial obligations, to experience community, and to work together to improve our neighborhoods. |
| Mary Queen Viet Nam Community Development Corporation, Inc. | Mary Queen of Viet Nam Community Development Corporation works with Vietnamese Americans and residents of New Orleans East in returning, rebuilding, and reclaiming the community in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. |
| Mercy Endeavors | Mercy Endeavors encourages older adults to live life to the fullest by supporting their independence, self-respect and vitality by providing resources and opportunities. |
| Metropolitan Center for Women and Children | The Metropolitan Center for Women and Children works to assist victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking and human trafficking. |
| Ozanam Inn | The Ozanam Inn provides services to homeless and needy men, women, and children of the greater New Orleans area. |
| St. George’s Episcopal Church | St. Georges Episcopal Church provides food and fellowship to needy citizens of New Orleans and to volunteers supporting recovery and rebuilding. |
| 9th Ward Field of Dreams | The 9th Ward Field of Dreams is working to build a state-of-the art athletics center for the George Washington High School in the 9th Ward. |
| Bard College | The Bard Early College in New Orleans Program works to dramatically increase college access and college readiness among low-income students in New Orleans high schools. |
| Caring Strategies | Caring Strategies works to support recreational, child development, and youth development programs for children with disabilities by providing assistance and positive support to families and their children with special needs. |
| City Year Louisiana | City Year works with young people to encourage community service. |
| Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux | The Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux works to provide compassionate service to those in need, to promote Catholic Social Teaching, and to advocate for those whose voice is not heard. |
| Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation | New Orleans Bowl, Inc. organizes the New Orleans Bowl game within the Sun Belt Conference. |
| Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies | The mission of IWES is to improve the physical, mental, and spiritual health and quality of life for women of color and their families. |
| Jefferson Youth Foundation, Inc. | The Jefferson Youth Foundation serves underserved children and their families in Jefferson Parish. |
| Kedila Family Learning Center | Kedila Family Learning Center is a non-profit organization committed to providing education, training, affordable and safe housing and support services. |
| Louisiana State University Agricultural Center | The LSU Agricultural Center works to enhance the quality of life for people through research and educational programs that develop human and community resources. |
| McMillian’s First Steps Childcare Development Center | McMillians First Steps Childcare Development Center works to provide developmentally appropriate activities for low-income children in the Greater New Orleans area. |
| Our School at Blair Grocery | Our School at Blair Grocery is an alternative school that has an urban organic micro-farm on its half-acre plot, growing vegetables and fruit trees and raising chickens. |
| Save One Now, Inc. | Save One Now, Inc. works to reduce crime, violence, substance abuse and other such indices among families, children, and youth, through the implementation of community development programs and services. |
| The Beautiful Foundation | The Beautiful Foundation works with African-American teenage girls to foster independence, self-esteem, and entrepreneurship. |
| Volunteers of America | The Volunteers of America Greater New Orleans chapter works to serve and uplift New Orlean’s most vulnerable populations, and to offer the opportunity for others to experience the joy of serving. |
| Yes We Care Movement | Yes We Care is a program of Efforts Of Grace, Inc. and the Ashe Cultural Arts Center, which seeks to encourage and disseminate cultural art in New Orleans. |
| Youth Empowerment Project | The Youth Empowerment Project works with at-risk youth or youth that have been involved in the juvenile justice system, offering alternative school days, a GED and literacy program, and ongoing mentorship. |
| Youth Rescue Initiative | The Youth Rescue Initiative works with at-risk youth through programs designed to build leadership, confidence, and instill life-long skills. |
| Youth Service Bureau of St. Tammany | The Youth Service Bureau works with troubled and at-risk youth throughout St. Tammany and Washington Parishes, empowering them to choose a new direction. |
| Project GRAD New Orleans | Project Grad works to ensure a quality public school education for all at risk children in economically disadvantaged communities so that high school graduation rates increase and students are prepared to enter college. |
| Save Our Schools | Save Our Schools New Orleans works to build parent and citizen demand for equal access to excellent public schools. |
| Children’s Bureau of New Orleans | The Children’s Bureau works to improve the quality of life for children and their families through innovative programs that focus on child welfare and rights. |
| Kingsley House | The Kingsley House is dedicated to improving the quality of life in Southeast Louisiana by collaboratively working with others to build a comprehensive system of services and resources that meet the needs of our recovering community. |
| Xavier University Preparatory School | Xavier University Preparatory High School is an all-girls high school that works with girls to develop spiritual, moral, intellectual, emotional and physical strengths. |
| Armstrong Family Services | Armstrong Family Services works with families experiencing homelessness, keeping them together and helping them to free themselves economically from public assistance and other dependencies through personal growth and economic development. |
| Shared Housing of New Orleans, Inc. | Shared Housing of New Orleans is a preventative program that allows elderly and/or disabled individuals to remain in their homes by matching them with people in need of housing. |
| Belle Reve New Orleans | Belle Reve New Orleans works to provide permanent and transitional housing along with full support services to adults and families living with AIDS or HIV-related infections. |
| Dryades YMCA | Dryades YMCA seeks to serve as a community catalyst through comprehensive intervention programs, to facilitate urban and community development in New Orleans and to leverage developmental assets into building community wealth. |
| The Neighborhood Story Project | The Neighborhood Story works with writers in neighborhoods around New Orleans to create books about their communities |
CASA New Orleans is the only organization in New Orleans that provides a 1-1 advocacy services for children in the foster care system. We were not invited to submit a proposal and as I understand that magnitude of requests you received and of course I am biased I sincerely hope that the GNOF will in the future consider funding CASA New Orleans.
Hello, the Louisiana SPCA submitted a letter of interest. Can we also be included on this list? Thanks.
GNOF Replies: Elizabeth, we did not list all of the 368+ applicants who submitted letters of interest to the Community IMPACT Program. Of those submitting, we had three groups-those who were invited to submit a full proposal, those who were put in a holding status depending on how the first group fared, and those who were not invited to submit a full proposal. On our website, we listed the organizations receiving grants, those who submitted a full proposal but due to a lack of resources we could not fund, and the organizations we put on hold.
Focus on Families submitted a letter of interest to GNOF for the Community Impact program, but is not included in your listing of organizations who submitted letters. Can you please help me to understand this? Thank you very sincerely,
Kevin McCann
Exec. Director
Focus on Families, Inc.
GNOF Replies: Yes, the Greater New Orleans Foundation did receive a letter of interest from Focus on Families. The list on the website does not include all the 368+ organizations that submitted letters. Of those submitting, we had three groups-those who were invited to submit a full proposal, those who were put in a holding status depending on how the first group fared, and those who were not invited to submit a full proposal. In addition to those organizations awarded grants, we listed only those organizations that submitted proposals, but were not funded, and the organizations that were put on hold.
It’s great to see what other organizations are doing. Does this list include all of the applicants?
GNOF replies: The list does not include all the 368+ organizations who submitted letters to the Community IMPACT Program. Of those submitting, we had three groups-those who were invited to submit a full proposal, those who were put in a holding status depending on how the first group fared, and those who were not invited to submit a full proposal. On the ‘Tis the Season list, we included the organizations that submitted proposals but were not funded, and the organizations that we put on hold.