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Baton Rouge
Crisis
Intervention
Center |
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Baton Rouge,
Louisiana/$15,000 |
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This project addresses
generating sustainable revenue
to support crisis and suicide
intervention and for grief
recovery services for adults
bereaved by suicide and children
who have experienced traumatic
loss in the Greater Baton Rouge
Area. This project goal is to
create sustainable funding for
programs and services provided
by BRCIC. Funding will assist
establishing a Department of
Advancement and Development. |
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Big Buddy Program |
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Baton Rouge,
Louisiana/$15,000 |
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In East Baton Rouge Parish, only
57% of children who start the
9th grade will graduate with
their class four years later. To
combat this tread, Big Buddy
Program will match students from
3 high schools in grades 9-12
with adult Mentors who will
provide support and guidance to
students as they transition to
adulthood. The program’s
objective is to guide Mentors
and Mentees through a sequence
of activities throughout the
school year as student set goals
and create action plans for
their transition from high
school to young adulthood. |
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Breakthrough New Orleans |
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New Orleans,
Louisiana/$10,000 |
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Middle school is a time of
tremendous change for students –
academically, developmentally
and socially – and it is during
these years when students either
shift their lives towards going
to college or away from it. In
its twentieth year,
Breakthrough New Orleans
(BTNOLA) continues to launch
highly-motivated,
underserved Orleans Parish
middle school students on the
path to college. BTNOLA prepares
its students to leave their
under-resource schools and enter
and succeed in competitive
college-preparatory high
schools, and ultimately
four-year colleges. |
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Food Bank of Northeast
Louisiana |
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Monroe,
Louisiana/$15,000 |
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Each Friday through the
BackPacks for Kids
Program, FBNELA provides
several pounds
of nutritious,
child-friendly foods to
over 300 severely
disadvantaged children
who, though fed at
school with lunch, often
subsist with little or
no food through long
weekends and holidays.
Childhood poverty in
Louisiana consistently
ranks in the bottom few
in the nation. Northeast
Louisiana is usually the
bottom of the bottom.
Backpacks for Kids has
been designed to target
the poorest and most
hungry children in our
service area. |
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Providence House |
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Hope House of
Central LA |
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Alexandria,
Louisiana/$10,000 |
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House of Central LA has served
as a transitional shelter for
homeless women and their
children since 1989. Hope House
provides an array of services to
prepare clients for
self-sufficiency and break the
cycle of homelessness. Children
of homeless mothers are uniquely
vulnerable. Because of these
challenges, these children need
the support Hope House’s case
managers can provide. Hope House
seeks to redefine this situation
for homeless youth by offering a
stable, supportive environment
and preparing them to be
socially, morally emotionally,
physically and cognitively
competent. |
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PAWS of NE Louisiana
Spay/Neuter Services,
Inc. |
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Homer,
Louisiana/$15,000 |
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PAWS has worked tirelessly to
reduce the pet overpopulation
problem in Northeast Louisiana
through a low-income spay neuter
program. By opening this
facility, tens of thousands of
unwanted animals being born in
to the communities will be
prevented. The facility will be
staffed by five employees which
will include a Veterinarian, Vet
Tech, Vet Assistant, Office
Manager and Executive Director.
PAWS will also partner with
animal shelters and rescue
groups in the area so that they
can bring their animals in to be
spayed/ neutered. |
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The Providence House |
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Shreveport,
Louisiana/$20,000 |
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The Providence House
Child Development Center
is the only childcare
center
exclusively serving
homeless children and
the only one affiliated
with a homeless
shelter in the state of
Louisiana. We know
homeless families are
the least likely
to be able to pay for
childcare expenses. |
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However, childcare is a critical
to
families if they are to
successfully work
through and complete the
Providence
House program, including
pursuing and maintaining
employment or earning
their GED
or other educational
credentials. |
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Second Harvest
Food Bank of
Greater New
Orleans and Acadiana |
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New Orleans,
Louisiana/$20,000 |
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The
need for increased food
distribution is critical as the
slowing economy erodes the
incomes of hardworking families
throughout South Louisiana. The
region has the third-highest
poverty rate in the nation.
Second Harvest is leading the
fight against hunger in south
Louisiana through food
distribution, advocacy,
education and disaster response.
A general support grant will be
used to cover the operating
expenses of Second Harvest’s
Food Distribution Program. In
the last year, Second
Harvest provided nearly 20
million meals to those in need. |
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Volunteers for Youth
Justice |
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Shreveport,
Louisiana/$15,000 |
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Volunteers of Youth Justice’s
mission is to provide
intervention services to youth
involved in the juvenile justice
system. CASA was established as
a solution to address the
tragedy of abused and neglected
children who linger in the
foster care system with little
hope for permanency. CASA
volunteers are specially trained
officers of the court who
advocate for victims of child
abuse. These community
volunteers become involved after
the child abuse has been
reported and the child has been
removed from the home and placed
in foster care. As a result, a
child with a CASA volunteer is
less likely to re-enter the
child welfare system. |
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