FOUNDATION INITIATIVES GRANT DESCRIPTIONS
NEW ORLEANS FUND
Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana
Baton Rouge, LA | $150,000
To increase and strengthen collaboration between local and national efforts to advance innovative policies and mechanisms for comprehensive coastal restoration and community protection efforts in coastal Louisiana.
Committee For A Better New Orleans
New Orleans, LA | $60,000
To develop the New Orleans Citizen Participation Program, including training, materials and capacity-building activities.
Gulf Coast Fund for Community Renewal and Ecological Health
New York, NY | $170,000
To continue to support grassroots organizations in the Gulf Coast through a collaborative, community-led grantmaking process, and to support capacity building and network strengthening and increase community influence in Gulf Coast policy decisions.
Institute for Southern Studies
Durham, NC | $75,000
To promote a more just and accountable Gulf Coast recovery through public interest journalism, research support for community-based organizations, and training new media investigative journalists.
Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana
New Orleans, LA | $170,000
To support the New Orleans Youth Organizing Collaborative, which consists of four youth civic engagement projects that have blossomed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and are engaging young people in New Orleans' ongoing recovery and rebuilding process.
The Lens
New Orleans, LA | $100,000
To enable The Lens to create a sustainable business development strategy and further develop investigative journalism focusing on the environment and impediments to prosperity in the New Orleans region.
Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation
Baton Rouge, LA | $100,000
To support the Orleans Public Education Network (OPEN), which is working to convene a comprehensive, citywide process for the people of New Orleans to develop a shared vision of excellence and equity for public education.
Neighborhoods Partnership Network
New Orleans, LA | $100,000
To ensure New Orleans' neighborhoods effectively prepare for and engage in the city's new Citizen Participation Program, designed as the vehicle for civic engagement and transparent local government decision-making.
New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice
New Orleans, LA | $150,000
To expand democracy for low-income communities of color engaged in the reconstruction of New Orleans and increase civic participation in unemployed and under-employed communities.
Restaurant Opportunities Centers United
New York, NY | $125,000
To develop the leadership of restaurant workers in New Orleans through research and policy, to promote high-road employer practices, and for a feasibility assessment to launch a cooperative restaurant and workforce training center.
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Applied Research Center
New York, NY | $15,000
To support a research project that will map demographic breakdown (race, gender and wage level) in several sectors of the food ecosystem and to produce a report including recommendations for further funding.
Inter-Alliance Dialogue
New York, NY | $15,000
To support the Excluded Workers Congress/International Conference.
Nonprofit Finance Fund
New York, NY | $213,000
To provide financial assessments, including an in-depth diagnosis of financial health, strengths and weaknesses, and customized technical assistance for nine nonprofit organizations.
North Star Fund
New York, NY | $7,500
To support the Community Food Funders Group.