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Angels’ Place, Inc. |
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Metairie,
Louisiana/$5,000 |
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Angels’ Place provides family
services to the parents and
siblings of ill children. There
is no other organization in New
Orleans providing these
services. Angels’ Place provides
respite visits to caregivers of
acutely ill children in the
hospital and in their homes.
They offer many social and
charity giving programs
throughout the year which
provide both fellowship and
financial support for the
families, the seriously ill
children, and their siblings. |
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Breakthrough New Orleans |
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New Orleans,
Louisiana/$10,000 |
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Since 1990, BTNOLA’s
tuition-free, year-round
intervention has been devoted to
placing highly-motivated,
underserved Orleans Parish
middle and high-school students
on the path towards college, and
to inspiring talented high
school and college students to
pursue careers in education. At
the core is its research-proven
“Students Teaching Students”
model. In a nutshell, BTNOLA
engages its students with
demanding academic curricula,
helps them enter and thrive in
the college-preparatory high
schools, provides ongoing
support to help every student
earn admission to a four-year
college, and creates teaching
opportunities for outstanding
high school and college
students. |
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Eden House |
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New Orleans,
Louisiana/$5,000 |
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Eden House is a non-profit,
two-year residential support
program for six adult women
suffering from lives of drug
addiction, prostitution, human
trafficking, and homelessness in
New Orleans. Our residents will
come to Eden House from the
streets or prison. Eden House’s
board is committed to caring for
our residents and educating the
community about domestic human
trafficking and the abuses that
women trapped within the web of
prostitution experience and
endure. The board also works
with law enforcement and the
Louisiana Legislature to ensure
that our state’s laws against
human trafficking are strong and
enforced. |
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Breakthrough New Orleans |
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The Nature Conservancy-
Louisiana Chapter |
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Baton Rouge,
Louisiana/$25,000 |
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Atchafalaya River Basin
(ARB) Program. |
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The human need to
control the ARB and to
acquire its natural
resources (timber, oil
and gas, crawfish
harvesting, hunting,
fishing, flood control,
navigation) has proven
to be unsustainable with
current plant
communities, healthy
populations of
terrestrial and aquatic
fish and wildlife
species. Dr. Piazza has
compiled the State of
the Basin Report, which
coupled with other
valuable science tools
will create the
scientific baseline for
future decision-making
regarding restoration
and conservation. A key
goal is to engage
science,management, and
educational partners in
the Atchafalaya Basin.
TNC believes these Ph.D.
students can move
conservation and
restoration forward by
tackling the most
pressing questions in
the ARB. |
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Planned
Parenthood of Louisiana
and the Mississippi
Delta, Inc. |
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New Orleans,
Louisiana/$10,000 |
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Life. Real Talk. (RLRT), is a
training program created by
Planned Parenthood Federation of
America, Inc. that instructs
parents how to communicate with
their children about sexuality
and health, and helps to make
the family a key source of
age-appropriate sexuality
education. Goals are: teach RLRT
to their clients, especially
parents, some of whom become
‘Parent Champions’ who instruct
peers in homes and across
neighborhood; self-improvement
courses for parents and
pro-active Hispanic outreach;
and distribution of health
information. |
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Teach For America |
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Baton Rouge,
Louisiana/$10,000 |
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Teach For America (TFA) is the
national corps of outstanding
recent college graduates, and
professionals who commit to
teach for two years in urban and
rural public schools and become
lifelong teachers in expanding
educational opportunity.
Approximately 75% of first-year
teachers and 85% of second-year
teachers will meet ambitious
student growth goals that mirror
the growth of the top 25% of
classrooms nationally. Funding
will support teachers currently
in the classroom and train new
teachers for 2012-2013. |
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Way Maker Ministries |
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Harvey,
Louisiana/$75,000 over 3
years |
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In June of 2011, Mayor
Mitch Landrieu signed an
executive order
establishing the
Homeless Services
Working Group that was
tasked to develop a
strategic master plan to
prevent, reduce and end
homelessness in the
Metro New Orleans,
region. This plan was
designed because on any
given night
approximately 6,500
residents are without a
home including
unsheltered individuals,
youth, and families. The
Mary Amelia Whited-Howell
Cottage will be designed
in increase access to
stable and affordable
housing. This project
will increase the Metro
New Orleans region bed
space by 30. The 2012
Ending Homelessness
program is an on-going
program. |
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