Programs & Events

Upcoming Programs & Events

• Nonprofit Preparedness: Planning for Continued Operations during Extreme Weather Events

  June 12, 2025 9 am - 3:30 pm

  Location: Fellowship Hall at the First Grace United Methodist Church (3401 Canal St., New Orleans, LA 70119)

  Nonprofits in our region often provide for our communities’ basic needs and offer critical services to ensure we can thrive. The communities we serve especially rely on our continued operations during extreme weather events. To support nonprofit preparedness and continued operations during storms and other weather-related events, the Greater New Orleans Foundation is offering a day-long workshop to help nonprofits plan for continuity of operations.

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• 2025-2026 Emerging Leaders

  September 25, 2025 to February 25, 2026

  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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