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Below are news and updates on grants from the Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund. We continue to monitor the effects of the oil spill on local communities and to make strategic grants. Thank you for your partnership, and we invite you check back with us as we continue to support the people and organizations working tirelessly in the region.
The Tulane Institute on Water Resources and Policy works to develop laws and policies that allow for improved stewardship and sustainable management of water resources. Since the oil spill, the Institute has been working with national and local water resource professionals to determine to affect of the oil spill on water resources. A $50,000.00 grant [...]
The Alliance Institute brings together an experienced team of professionals and grassroots leaders to advocate for social and economic justice in the towns and neighborhoods of coastal Louisiana. A grant of $18,000.00 from the Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund will be used by the institute to establish health clinics designed to provide emergency health care [...]
The Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation (LPBF) is dedicated to restoring and preserving the water quality, coast, and habitats of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin. A grant of $25,000.00 from the Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund will finance personnel, boat, and mileage costs associated with LPBF’s oil spill response work. LBPF has set up 16 field monitoring [...]
Because of the Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund, families are taking their pets to the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (LA/SPCA) because they simply cannot afford to care for them. If there was ever a time for families to keep their pets, it would be now because pets provide much-needed comfort. [...]
VAYLA is a youth-led community-based organization dedicated to empowering Vietnamese Americans. A grant of $10,000 from the Greater New Orleans Foundation’s Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund will provide legal education on fishers’ rights in Vietnamese, create documentation on the ongoing impact to the Vietnamese fishing community, and sponsor town hall meetings to share information on [...]
Since the oil spill, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade is training additional local volunteers to sample the air quality in the coastal parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, and lower Jefferson. Equipped with EPA-approved ‘buckets,’ the volunteers monitor and report the quality of air in their communities. With a grant of $49,990 from the Greater New Orleans [...]
Video: As southeast Louisiana’s fishing communities watch the ongoing oil disaster threaten their economy and way of life, the Greater New Orleans Foundation is using a grant from its Gulf Oil Spill Fund to help support critical services to fishermen—such as the Seedco Financial’s Southeast Fisheries Assistance Center.
Video: Neil Beshel is part owner of the Beshel Boat Launch in East Pointe a la Hache in Plaquemines Parish. Here from him and other fellow commercial fishermen on how the Gulf oil spill is effecting business.
As the world waits and watches for what may become the nation’s worst environmental disaster in decades, the Greater New Orleans Foundation has used its Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund to help [...]
