Community Organizations
Community Organizations That Are Community Development
Adams St Cultural Development Center
Adams St. Cultural Development Center, in East Carrollton provides a facility to house all types of Cultural Events, Programs and Celebrations. Offering food to the needy through Second Harvest Food Bank, providing a Safe Haven to the Community, with heavy concentration on the Youth and Elderly. Striving to transform the…
Bayou Treme Center
The Bayou Treme Center is a collaborative re-development of the former St. Rose of Lima 4-building campus located near Broad and Esplanade. The campus will re-open with a mid-sized performance venue in the former church, modern classroom space for an open-enrollment public charter school in Building #1, and small-business and…
Benroe Housing Initiatives
Benroe Housing Initiatives (BHI) is a professional consulting management agency specializing in construction management, Architectural, Design-Build, and Engineering services to commercial and government clients. We provide high quality and responsive solutions to our valued clients, including working with other agencies and companies based upon the project’s needs to provide one…
Central City Housing Development Corporation
The Central City Housing Development Corporation was founded approximately 30 years ago to address housing concerns in the Central City neighborhood. Our main ongoing projects include providing first-time housing, rentals, as well as assisting with renovation and in general reducing substandard housing in the neighborhood. Our main goals for the…
CNC Construction & Air Conditioing, LLC (Specialist of Solar & HVAC)
CNC Construction & Air Conditioning, LLC is general contractor licensed through the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors and insured. We complete commercial and residential work through out LA whether new or renovation. We specialize in the most competitive solar contracts in LA with our business partner BLG Solar Solutions.…
Development Services International
Maintain excellence in providing Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) and Community-Based Organizations (CBO) with specialized capacity building, fiscal management and outreach strategy development to strengthen programs targeting underserved populations: 1. CAPACITY BUILDING AND FISCAL SPONSORSHIP A) Provide training and technical skill development for sponsored organizations seeking to improve capacity in information literacy,…
Dillard University CDC
The Dillard CDC provide services primarily to residents of Gentilly in the areas of housing assistance, educational workshops, lawn service and case management. Recent Success: With the cooperation of city and state officials and the city’s Department of Public Works, the members of Gentilly Sugar Hill Neighborhood Association initiated and…
Equity and Inclusion Campaign
The Equity and Inclusion Campaign is a nonpartisan coalition of local, regional and national activists, organizations and community members advocating for structural solutions to confront persistent poverty and inequity across the three Gulf Coast states of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. The vision for the Equity and Inclusion Campaign is to…
Family Resources of New Orleans
The mission of the agency is to enable and empower families to become self-sufficient, by building wealth through homeownership. Family Resources of New Orleans has operated a family resource center in Historical Treme’ since 1997. The Family Resources Center was established shortly after the “Welfare to Work” legislation, mandating that…
Felicity Street Redevelopment Project Inc.
As a CDC we have: Twenty-five blighted properties renovated and returned to commerce Fifty new permanent residents in the Lower St. Charles Corridor $2,500,000.00 in construction in the Lower St. Charles Corridor Recruited 10 first-time homeowners in the Lower St. Charles Corridor Sponsored two community concerts in the Lower St.…
Future Prep NOLA
Future Prep NOLA is an education-centered organization that works to address the need for transition counseling services in New Orleans public middle schools. We provide individual mentoring, informational workshops, application tracking, and on-going support through schools to reach families and students across the city. Our mission us to empower families…
Institute for Sustainable Communities
At the Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC), we give passionate, committed people around the world the tools, skills, and resources they need to make their communities better places to live. In February 2009, ISC launched the Gulf Coast Sustainable Communities Network that connects coastal communities to one another, helping them…
Jefferson Community Action Programs
Jefferson Community Action Programs (JEFFCAP) is Jefferson Parish’s agency dedicated to fulfilling its mission of empowering as many families of Jefferson Parish including our elderly, disabled, economically disadvantaged and youth through our various programs. Linkages have been built with federal, state, local and private agencies to provide a wide array…
Latino Farmers Cooperative of Louisiana, Inc
MISSION LFCL is a demand-driven service agriculture organization providing access to farmland, resources, education and training so members can grow/eat healthy food in urban sustainable farms, create entrepreneurship and address the socioeconomic issues of the Latino community in Louisiana. THE FARMERS INCUBATOR PROJECT The Farmers Incubator Project is our venue…
LatiNola
LatiNola, a program of Puentes, is a city wide civic engagement and cultural awareness program aimed at increasing volunteerism and civic participation among the city’s Latinos. LatiNola has several components; the LatiNola Youth Leadership Council (LYLC), LatiNola Votes – a voter registration campaign-, the Welcoming Louisiana Campaign, aimed at making…
Leah Walbourne
NOLA Veggie Fest Will be held at the New Orleans Healing Center May 11th & 12th 2013 NOLA Veggie Fest is a non-profit organization spearheading the vegan revolution in New Orleans. The festival is a project of the Humane Society of Louisiana, a locally operated non-profit charity leading the fight…
LINCNewOrleans
LINCNewOrleans is a networking group of interconnected organizations and individuals across New Orleans quite literally linking together to engage in and impact their communities. Our Vision: Stronger Communities = neighborhoods with less crime and poverty, higher employment rates and educational expectations. Our Mission: Connecting a network of missional leaders that…
Louisiana Green Corps
Conservation Corps providing green job skills training to unemployed, under-employed, court involved or otherwise disadvantaged residents through the completion of impactful environmental restoration and conservation projects.
Love Impact, Inc.
Love Impact, Inc. (Impact) was founded and established in November 2009 by Lester Love and Chery Harrison. They currently serve as President and Vice President respectively. The Mission of Love Impact, Inc. is to positively impact the New Orleans community through love and positive social action. We will consistently develop…
Neighborhood Development Foundation (NDF)
A Force that has been quietly working for all of us since 1986, the Neighborhood Development Foundation (NDF) is an economic engine that converts life-long renters, with modest resources, and ready houses into entire neighborhoods of new and happy homebuyers. The ripple effect (s) of these new homebuyers are seen…
Operation REACH, Inc.
Since 1999, Operation REACH, Inc. has supported children, youth and families in succeeding in school and life by providing learning opportunities that unleash the magic of learning, leadership and increased social consciousness. Operation REACH is a national non-profit community education resource that assists individuals and communities in reaching new heights…
Orleans Public Education Network
The mission of the Orleans Public Education Network (OPEN) is to bring the full New Orleans community together for a respectful and informed dialogue about the future of public education in the city. Beginning with the basic questions of what quality education means and does in New Orleans, this process…
Project Homecoming
Project Homecoming (PH) is a ministry of the Presbytery of South Louisiana, in partnership with Presbyterian Disaster Assistance. PH rebuilds the homes of uninsured, under insured, elderly and disabled survivors of Hurricane Katrina in the Greater New Orleans area. Since its inception in April of 2007, PH has utilized its…
Puentes New Orleans, Inc.
The mission of Puentes New Orleans, Inc. is to build assets and create access for the Latino community of the Greater New Orleans area. What does this mean? It means that we aspire to create an integrated New Orleans region in which the Latino community is a vital, vibrant, and…
Sierra Club
Sierra Club is a national environmental advocacy organization and one of the oldest conservation groups in the country. Sierra Club has over 700,000 members nationally and approximately 4,000 members in the state of Louisiana. Sierra Club’s primary purpose is to preserve and protect the natural environment of Louisiana and the…
Student Advocacy for Equitable Recovery
SAFER provides case management services and rebuilding assistance to families who are unable to afford to rebuild their homes. Additionally, SAFER hosts college student volunteers year round and advocates for the people and communities of New Orleans by bringing awareness to out of towners unfamiliar with the state of our…
Trinity Christian Community
Our services include: Housing rehab, construction, after school programs, youth programs, senior services, AmeriCorps, volunteer recruitment and deployment, blight reporting, neighborhood project management.
