Neighborhood Groups
Neighborhood Groups That Are Community Development
Broad Community Connections
Broad Community Connections is revitalizing Broad Street from Tulane Avenue to Bayou Road as a vibrant commercial corridor, bringing together the surrounding neighborhoods and promoting their economic, residential, and cultural development.
Broadmoor Development Corporation
The Broadmoor Development Corporation (BDC) was founded in 2006 and its mission is to enhance the economic well-being of the Broadmoor neighborhood. The BDC is currently engaged in activities to eliminate blight in the neighborhood which includes new construction for sale, renovation for homebuyers and current homeowners and the maintenance…
Carrollton-Hollygrove CDC
The Carrollton Hollygrove Community Development Corporation (CHCDC) is a non-profit organization whose mission is the development of affordable housing to low-and moderate-income households, and, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, to promote neighborhood revitalization and recovery in the area bounded by South Carrollton Ave., the Jefferson Parish line, I-10, and…
Central City Partnership
Mission: The Central City Partnership (CCP) is a collaboration of community based organizations, faith-based institutions, public schools, businesses, universities, law enforcement, government and community leaders (grass roots and elected) and residents formed to facilitate and promote the revitalization of the New Orleans Central City Community Vision: CCP’s vision is HOPE…
Desire Street Ministries
Desire Street Ministries exists to train and send leaders to revitalize impoverished neighborhoods through spiritual and community development. Everything we do is based on two core values. Our incarnational philosophy of ministry means that the leaders of our replication works choose to live in the neighborhoods we serve, seeking transformation…
Gert Town Community Development Center
Gert Town Community Development Center seeks to improve the social, economic and physical environment of the Gert-Town and adjacent communities by building a strong cohesive neighborhood.
Harmony Neighborhood Development
Harmony Neighborhood Development (HARMONY) – formerly NONDC – is a non-profit, comprehensive community development organization focusing its work in Central City New Orleans. We create high quality housing choices while advocating and partnering for the development of vibrant communities. HARMONY’s comprehensive approach to revitalization also includes blight elimination, homeownership services,…
Lower 9th Ward Village Community Center
The Lower 9th Ward Village is a community-driven, community-led, nonprofit 501©3 organization and neighborhood center based in the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans, Louisiana. The main goal of the Village is to bring together the entire Lower 9th Ward and to empower community members to be self-sufficient and to…
Mary Queen of Vietnam CDC
MQVN Community Development Corporation (MQVN CDC) was established by the Mary Queen of Viet Nam Church in May 2006 to assist Vietnamese-American Katrina victims in New Orleans East rebuild their lives and their community. In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, MQVN CDC played a leading role in providing emergency…
NENA
NENA’s mission is to play a vital role in our neighborhood’s redevelopment. We implement sustainable projects and programs in decent and affordable housing, economic development and education with clear community involvement and direction.
Pontilly Association
Mission: The Pontilly Association is a 501 c (4) non profit that helps to maintain the character of the Pontchartrain Park and Gentilly Woods communities for more then twenty-five years. The Association served as the neighborhood association for the Pontchartrain Park and Gentilly Woods communities. The past activities included monthly…
UNCF
UNCF was founded 67 years ago on April 25, 1944, by Dr. Frederick Patterson, president of Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University), Mary McLeod Bethune, president of Bethune-Cookman College (now Bethune-Cookman University), and others. Today, 39 HBCUs belong to UNCF. UNCF provides scholarships to help students overcome the financial barriers to…
