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Emerging Leaders

August 19, 2022

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

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When Waters Rise Convening Held in New Orleans

July 8, 2022

The Greater New Orleans Foundation was proud to host a two-day When Waters Rise convening June 23 & 24. Community foundations and place-based funders from across the nation gathered to discuss formalizing a network for equitable disaster grantmaking.

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Foundation Names Devon Turner and Dan Favre as New Directors

Jeff Schiffman

July 6, 2022

Devon Turner joins the Foundation as Director of Nonprofit Leadership and Effectiveness. Prior to her arrival, Devon served as the Executive Director of Grow Dat Youth Farm. Dan Favre will take over as the Foundation’s Director of Environmental Programs. Dan previously served as the Executive Director of Bike Easy.

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LGBTQ Fund Spotlight: The LGBT Community Center of New Orleans

June 13, 2022

In launching the LGBTQ Fund in 2016, the Greater New Orleans Foundation was moved by the Out in the South Report, which had been released by Funders for LGBTQ Issues a few years prior. The report shared that while the South had more lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) adults than any other part of the country, the region received just 3-4% of domestic funding for LGBTQ issues. LGBTQ people in the South were also among the most likely to be experiencing poverty.

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LGBTQ Fund Spotlight: LOUD – New Orleans Queer Youth Theater

June 6, 2022

In launching the LGBTQ Fund in 2016, the Greater New Orleans Foundation was moved by the Out in the South Report, which had been released by Funders for LGBTQ Issues a few years prior. The report shared that while the South had more lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) adults than any other part of the country, the region received just 3-4% of domestic funding for LGBTQ issues. LGBTQ people in the South were also among the most likely to be experiencing poverty.

 

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