Community Organizations
Community Organizations That Are Culturals
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…
Ashe Cultural Arts Center
Ashe Cultural Arts Center is an initiative of Efforts of Grace, Inc., a not-for-profit, 501©(3), organization that creates and supports programs, activities, and creative works emphasizing the contributions of people of African descent. Located in Central City, the Center provides opportunities for art presentations, community development, artist support, and the…
C3/Hands Off Iberville!
Vision Statement for C3-concern, community, compassion C3 is a grassroots community, New Orleans-based organization that advocates affordable housing as a human right, a truly democratic, accountable government that secures that right, and the rebuilding of New Orleans to include all its citizens. C3 champions the shifting of federal resources away…
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…
KID smART
KID smART�s mission is to work with the arts to engage children in learning about themselves and the world in which they live. We strive to teach positive life skills and increase student learning in all subjects by teaching the visual and performing arts. Working with professional arts educators, KID…
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…
Longue Vue House & Gardens
Longue Vue’s mission is to preserve and use the historical and artistic legacy of Longue Vue and its creators to educate and inspire people to pursue beauty and civic responsibility in their lives. Longue Vue, once the home of philanthropists Edgar and Edith Stern, is a Country Place Era estate…
Louisiana Office of Cultural Development
The Louisiana Office of Cultural Development is a state agency within the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism under the direction of Lt. Governor Mitch Landrieu. Cultural Development is comprised of four agencies, Arts, Archaeology, Historic Preservation and the Council for the Development of French In Louisiana. Through these programs,…
Mahalia Jackson Center Arts Council
Mahalia Jackson Center Arts Council serves as the designated Arts & Humanities advisory group to guide the development, adoption, and implementation of arts/humanities related programs and special events at the Center and in the extended Central City community. This Council actively pursues collaborative relationships that result in generating programs and…
Mahalia Jackson Early Childhood & Family Learning Center
MJC brings the services families need, together under one roof, right in their neighborhood, with a focus on care and education for Central City’s youngest residents, from birth to age 5, and their families. All families with Central City addresses qualify for full, free membership to Mahalia Jackson Center. Non-residents…
New Orleans Jazz Celebration
The New Orleans Jazz Celebration is a nonprofit organization incorporated in 1994. Our mission is to preserve, promote, and perpetuate jazz as an original American art form, along with other related roots music, through educational outreach.
Open Sound New Orleans
Open Sound New Orleans is a community project that invites New Orleanians to document their lives in sound. New Orleanians participate by recording, or making recording requests for, the important sounds and voices in their lives. Recording equipment is loaned to community organizations, neighborhood groups, and individuals to facilitate a…
Prospect New Orleans
Launched in 2008, Prospect.1 New Orleans was the largest biennial of international contemporary art ever mounted in the United States. Conceived by Dan Cameron in the tradition of the great international biennials, such as the Venice Biennale and the Bienal de São Paulo, the Prospect New Orleans Biennial showcases new…
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…
Radio Talk Show Host Brian Opert
On WGSO 990 AM radio, Thursdays at 5:00 PM Central, “From the Ground Up”, a Live Topical Radio Discussion Series Focusing on Reducing Crime in Greater New Orleans. The show helps listeners eliminate the confusion and fill in knowledge gaps with localized how-to information and advice to effectively address and…
St. Anna's Episcopal Church
St. Anna’s Episcopal Church was founded in 1846, and has long been a center of community life in the historic downtown neighborhoods of New Orleans. Our mission is to articulate the call for justice and defend those who are hurt or abused because of their social location or history of…
The Green Project
The Green Project is a nonprofit retail store which sells affordable, reused building and art materials to the community. We develop a culture of creative reuse by building a marketplace for reclaimed materials and cultivating a respect for their value. We also serve as a recycling drop-off site, recycle paint…
Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association of New Orleans (VAYLA-NO)
The Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association of New Orleans (VAYLA-NO) is a youth-led, youth organizing and development, community-based organization in New Orleans dedicated to the empowerment of Vietnamese American and underrepresented youth through services, cultural enrichment, and positive social change. Young community leaders founded VAYLA-NO in 2006 as a means…
Young Leadership Council
The Young Leadership Council is a non-profit, non-partisan civic organization created to develop leadership through community projects. Our volunteers run 17+ community projects that aim to improve the quality of life in New Orleans. Some of our most visible projects include: YLC Wednesday at the Square; One Book, One New…
