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Boys Town Louisiana |
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New Orleans,
Louisiana/$15,000 |
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Boys Town Louisiana,
incorporated as Father
Flanagan’s Boy’s Home (founded
in 1917), is a nonprofit,
nonsectarian service provider
for at-risk youth, and families.
Boys Town’s In-Home Family
Services program is a
community-based program that is
in place to help the area’s
highly at-risk youth and their
families overcome environmental
and individual challenges and
instill fundamental skills, so
that can become productive
members of society. In-Home
Family Services is an essential
program in Boys Town Integrated
Continuum of Care. |
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Community Renewal
International, Inc. |
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Shreveport,
Louisiana/$25,000 |
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CRI provides a systematic method
that addresses the root cause of
deterioration and dysfunction in
society. Some these societal
symptoms are pockets of poverty
among affluence, violent crime,
low educational levels, lack of
employment opportunities and
deteriorating housing. CRI
addresses the root cause of the
problem through caring
relationships established with
the residents in the
neighborhood. CRI is
accomplishing it mission through
multiple comprehensive
community-wide initiatives. |
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Forensic Nurse Examiners
of Louisiana, Inc. |
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Shreveport,
Louisiana/$15,000 |
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Forensic Nurse Examiners
of Louisiana, Inc. (FNE)
was incorporated in
October 2005 to provide
compassionate and
competent forensic
nursing care to victims
of sexual assault in our
community of Northwest
Louisiana. FNE is the
only organization in
North Louisiana that
provides fully-trained,
certified and
properly-equipped Sexual
Assault Forensic
Examiners to perform
forensic examinations
and evidence collection
that will enable local
law enforcement to
investigate and
prosecute the
perpetrators of those
crimes. |
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The Fuller Center |
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(Greater Blessing
Project) |
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Shreveport,
Louisiana/$15,000 |
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Fuller Center for Housing of
Northwest Louisiana (Fuller
NWLA) was established as a
non-profit organization in 2006.
Fuller NWLA promotes
collaborative and innovative
partnerships with individuals
and organizations in a quest to
eradicate substandard housing
and provide decent and
affordable housing for families
living in poverty. Fuller NWLA
is currently the only
organization locally that
addresses rehabilitation of
substandard housing. |
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The Fuller Center |
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(Home Ownership Closing
Project) |
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Shreveport,
Louisiana/$15,000 |
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| Home
ownership is the core mission of
Fuller NWLA. Homeowner partner
families invest hundreds of
hours of “sweat-equity” labor
building their homes, and then
purchase their homes through an
affordable no-profit mortgage.
Monthly mortgage payments are
then “recycled” in order to
build still more homes and reach
more families in the local
community. By investing
themselves so intensely in their
homes, families also are
investing themselves in their
neighborhoods. |
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LANO-Louisiana
Association of Nonprofit
Organizations |
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Baton Rouge,
Louisiana/$20,000 |
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| Over
the last year, LANO has
experienced a significant
increase in requests for
technical assistance and
one-on-one coaching. Nonprofit
executives and board leaders
contact LANO on a daily basis to
seek guidance on organizational
challenges and implementing best
practices. Through the
‘Nonprofit Coaches Program,’
LANO North will develop and
train a pool volunteer
professionals and contact
experts. Funding will increase
capacity among nonprofit
executive and board leaders
resulting in greater
sustainability, accountability,
and service. |
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Lutheran Social Services
of the South |
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New Orleans,
Louisiana/$15,000 |
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of approximately 4,000 foster
children in Louisiana, 300-350
age out of the system annually.
Court-approved permanency plans
for 280 youths state that they
will never return to family and
will never be adopted; hence,
they will be emancipated from
the system with little to no
support thereafter. The BeREAL
program empowers foster youth to
prepare for and gain access to
postsecondary education and
careers through transition
services, mentoring, guidance
and direct assistance. |
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