Programs & Events

Upcoming Programs & Events

  • Applications are live for 2025-2026 Emerging Leaders

    June 6, 2025 to August 15, 2025

    Across southeastern Louisiana – throughout our cities, towns, and parishes – passionate leaders are ready to elevate their skills, perspectives, and networks to become the region’s next nonprofit executive directors and senior leaders. Emerging Leaders provides an opportunity for those leaders to level up their leadership. 

    Emerging Leaders is a leadership development program aimed at creating a pipeline of senior and executive leadership in the nonprofit sector of southeast Louisiana. This program equips participants with the technical and relationship skills, as well as the critical systems-level thinking, necessary to lead strong, healthy, and impactful nonprofits. Program components allow participants to explore foundational and innovative practices in: 

    • Organizational finance;

    • Team and board management;  

    • Fundraising and fund development;  

    • Network-building; and  

    • Organizational sustainability and care.  

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  • Applications for Executive Director Intensive Are Live

    July 9, 2025 to August 29, 2025 11:59 pm

    In partnership with the Kresge Foundation and the Hilton Foundation, the Greater New Orleans Foundation is excited to host the 2025-2026 Executive Director Intensive (EDI), a comprehensive leadership program exclusively for nonprofit executive directors, CEOs, and presidents. EDI combines experienced trainers and peer learning to support leaders as they develop critical technical and leadership skills; inspire their staff, board members, and other stakeholders to deeper impact and greater responsiveness; and envision organizations that simultaneously meet community needs and successfully navigate changes in the nonprofit sector.

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  • Board Governance Intensive: Building Impactful and Inclusive Boards

    October 7, 2025 to October 8, 2025 Various Times

    In-person: Greater New Orleans Foundation, 919 St. Charles Ave, New Orleans, LA 70130

    Effective and strategic board leadership is crucial to an organization’s sustainability. To help organizations strengthen their governance, the Foundation’s Paulette and Frank Stewart Board Governance Institute is hosting a Board Governance Intensive workshop on Tuesday, October 7 and Wednesday, October 8 at the Foundation’s Center for Philanthropy. The workshop will support teams of board members, executive directors, and senior staff as they work to improve their understanding of nonprofit governance; strengthen their inclusionary practices in governance; increase board engagement; and maximize their Board’s impact.

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