The Bright School
Families Helping Families NOLA
Chalmette, Louisiana / $10,000
FHF aims to ensure that all people with disabilities live and are fully included in school, work, and recreational activities. The overarching goal is to utilize this network to form a wholistic circle for each of the computing program participants. Much like the service model of the Mayo and Cleveland Clinics, the goal is to provide integrated services for each participant. The long-term objective of the Coalition is to forge memorandums of understanding with partners that mirror the workforce needs of the students and to include the participation of agencies and programs.
UL Lafayette Foundation
Lafayette, Louisiana / $10,000
The Hilliard Art Museum is a dynamic center for community engagement located at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The museum’s mission is to enhance the education of UL Lafayette students and inspire creativity through engagement with the arts across southern Louisiana, known as the Acadiana region. The museum serves about 19,000 people per year. The Hilliard is the only fine art museum on the Gulf Coast from Houston to New Orleans, serving an expansive rural population throughout Southwest Louisiana. The museum works closely with community partners to ensure outreach to audiences throughout the Acadiana region.
The Bright School
New Orleans, Louisiana / $20,000
Children with hearing loss achieve much lower levels of education, are dependent on others throughout their lives, suffer from low self-confidence and poor social interaction skills. The good news is that hearing impaired children with access to an appropriate early intervention system during their first years can avoid these obstacles and achieve age-appropriate developmental outcomes. At the Bright School we offer this system, using a broad spectrum of specialized programs to positively change the trajectory of the lives of hearing impaired and developmentally delayed children by preparing them to be able to move forward in their education.
Families Helping Families
Chimp Haven, Inc.
Keithville, Louisiana / $15,000
Chimp Haven was founded in 1995 to meet the need for long-term chimpanzee care for chimpanzees used in research. In 2000 Congress passed the Chimpanzee Health Improvement Maintenance and Protection (CHIMP) Act, establishing a federal sanctuary system to provide lifetime care for chimpanzees retired from medical research. The federal government chose Chimp Haven to fill the role. At Chimp Haven, chimpanzees who have spent their lives in research, experience many of the freedoms they would have in the wild and receive the expert care they need to keep them healthy and thriving.
LSU Health Shreveport Foundation
Shreveport, Louisiana / $48,000
The LSU Health Shreveport Center for Brain Health was established in 2018 to improve care, education and research for brain injury, and diseases that contribute to diminished brain health in North Louisiana. To reach marginalized local communities, we propose to collaborate with Louisiana State University Agriculture Center and Bernstein Development to offer exercise and nutrition programs, and a community garden/marketplace. Due to sedentary lifestyles and poor eating habits, Louisiana has higher national death rates in obesity related diseases such as heart disease and diabetes according to the CDC.
STEM Library Lab
Metairie, Louisiana / $15,000
STEM Library Lab’s Engaging Students Series workshops align to a primary obstacle teachers have cited for leaving the classroom. The workshops guide teachers in developing the content and pedagogy needed to address their students’ learning challenges and to improve their own instructional practice. Beyond teachers, our Engaging Student Series also prepares current school administrators and coaches in methodology to effectively mentor and evaluate teachers based on the instructional shifts inherent to inquiry-based instruction.
New Harmony High
New Harmony High
New Orleans, Louisiana / $15,000
New Harmony High is a Title 1 school founded in 2018 with 45 ninth grade students. The mission to educate and empower a diverse generation of environmental stewards, activists, and innovators. Our goal is to create student-run programming that reaches beyond the bounds of our school. Students will become community educators, sharing their extensive, hands-on knowledge of sustainable practices, environmental connectedness, and the impacts of climate change. Our specific objectives include the hosting of on-campus environmental “field trips” by our educators and the conducting of student-led community workshops that further our mission.