Community Organizations
Community Organizations Who Provide Workshops
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…
Beacon of Hope Resource Center
Leading the way home, Beacon of Hope Resource Center provides a model for recovery in neighborhoods devastated by Hurricane Katrina, as well as other areas affected by disaster. Providing information and resources, encouraging civic action, and fostering repopulation form the foundation on which we build and grow. Beacon of Hope…
Berean Presbyterian Church/Covenant Presbyterian Urban Ministries Institute (CPUMI)
Berean/CPUMI is a partnership of Berean Presbyterian Church and the outreach agency Covenant Presbyterian Urban Ministry Institute which has its office in the the Berean Community Center on 2128 Felicity Street. CPUMI is the outreach for Berean Presbyterian Church. It provides a food bank two times a month, helps the…
Consumer Credit Counseling Service of GNO
Mission Statement: To further the financial well-being of individuals and families in the communities we serve through education, counseling and debt management. Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Greater New Orleans, Inc., is a non-profit community service agency dedicated to educating consumers in the wise and proper use of credit, and…
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…
Early Childhood & Family Learning Foundation
ECFLF conducts most of its work in Central City, New Orleans. ECFLF is heaquartered at its pilot project, Mahalia Jackson Center, which provides top level birth-to-five early education, complemented by many services for children and their families, all under one roof. Services include adult education, job training and placement, teen…
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…
Global Green USA
Global Green is working to address some of the greatest challenges facing humanity. In the United States our work is primarily focused on stemming global climate change by creating green buildings and cities. Global Green USA is committed to creating a green model for development and rebuilding for New Orleans…
Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center
The Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center (GNOFHAC) is a private, non-profit civil rights organization established in the summer of 1995 to eradicate housing discrimination throughout the greater New Orleans area. Through education, investigation, and enforcement activities, GNOFHAC promotes fair competition throughout the housing marketplace — rental, sales, lending,…
HandsOn New Orleans
HandsOn New Orleans transforms communities through volunteer service and leadership development. We train community members to identify and lead their own service projects and equip them with resources such as: A Tool Lending Library, Skilled Volunteer Recruitment, Volunteer Leader Training, Project Planning Guidance and Resources, Volunteer Recruitment and more.
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…
J.C. Kuczek, Attorney at Law, LLC
A New Orleans Community based law firm with a focus on helping non-profit organizations attain their goals through: initial entity design and formation; assisting in tax exempt status applications; drafting effective Articles of Organization/Incorporation and Bylaws; advising on issues of annual reporting and accounting compliance. Our goal is to ensure…
Jean
Parkway Partners empowers volunteers to improve green spaces in New Orleans: neutral ground adoptions; community gardening; tree planting; schoolyard gardens to support curriculum; parks. The agency has done so since 1982 without government funding.
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…
Jessica Steverson
The mission of the World Trade Center is to facilitate on behalf of our members the addition of wealth and jobs in Louisiana through international trade, economic development and allied activities by supporting a prosperous international business climate in Louisiana with advocacy, information, education, and stakeholder programs and services. Implementation…
Juvenile Justice Project of LA (JJPL)
Mission: “To transform the juvenile justice system into one that builds on the strengths of young people, families and communities in order to instill hope and to ensure children are given the greatest opportunities to grow and thrive.” see more at http://jjpl.org
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 Association of Nonprofit Organizations (LANO)
Mission: The Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations (LANO) is a membership organization serving nonprofits statewide through our regional field offices including one in New Orleans. Our New Orleans office is located at Nonprofit Central in Central City. Services: Our primary services include organizational capacity building for nonprofits through trainings and…
Louisiana Public Health Institute
The Louisiana Public Health Institute (LPHI) is an independent, statewide 501©(3) nonprofit organization established in 1997. We are part of a growing movement of public health institutes across the country. LPHI’s mission is to promote and improve health and quality of life in Louisiana through diverse public-private partnerships with government,…
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…
Metro New Orleans Area Homeownership Preservation Coalition
The Metro New Orleans Area Homeownership Preservation Coalition is a group of housing counselors, legal services providers, regulatory agencies and homeownership advocates dedicated to preserving homeownership in the metro New Orleans area.
National Society of Black Engineers
National Society of Black Engineers is the largest student run organization in the United States. NSBE’s mission is to increase the number of Culturally Responsible Black Engineers who Excel Academically, Succeed Professionally and Positively Impact the Community!
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…
Neighborhoods Partnership Network
The Neighborhoods Partnership Network (NPN) is a nonprofit, 501c3 organization consisting of a citywide network of neighborhoods that was established after the Hurricane Katrina disaster to facilitate neighborhood collaboration, increase access to government and information, and strengthen the voices of individuals and communities across New Orleans. NPN’s mission is to…
New Orleans Community Outreach NOCO
New Orleans Community Outreach (NOCO) seeks to improve the lives of underserved populations in our community by increasing access to services and programs offered within the community which promote physical, nutritional, emotional, and environmental well-being regardless of income. The New Orleans Healing Center offers a myriad of health and healing…
New Orleans Food & Farm Network
New Orleans Food & Farm Network works on food justice issues in New Orleans. We believe that everyone should have access to fresh, healthy and sustainably produced food for the long-term health of our environment, economy, and communities. We work with individuals, communities, consumers, and growers to support sustainable growing…
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…
River of Hope
River of Hope Mental Resource Center River of Hope Mental Health Resource Center is sponsored by Headwaters, a non-profit relief organization. We are a free walk-in clinic offering counseling, referral and support services to anyone in need. Hours Weds. 8:30am-5:30pm Thurs. 1pm-9pm Fri. 9am-9pm Sat. 8:30am-5:30pm We are located at…
S.M.C.L. Foundation & Associates, Inc.
Through our strong faith and trust in GOD, we will create a healthy atmosphere that sparks neighborhood improvement projects involving affordable housing for low and moderate income families and promote economic development that includes, jobs, health, fitness, recreation, and all purpose training facilities for use by disadvantaged or under privileged…
Save Our Schools NOLA
Save Our Schools New Orleans Louisiana was founded by public school parents to help ensure that every child has access to high quality public schools in New Orleans. SOSNOLA believes that when parents and community members are informed and connected around common concerns and a shared vision, they will be…
School Leadership Center
The School Leadership Center (SLC) is a not-for-profit 501© 3 dedicated to developing Louisiana’s public and non-public school leaders, and optimizing teaching and learning in the school environment in order to increase student achievement.
Social Entrepreneurs of New Orleans
SENO’s mission is to build a powerful community and ecosystem of support for social entrepreneurs so that social entrepreneurship will thrive and all citizens can act as agents of change. Just as Silicon Valley has become known as the center for technological innovation, New Orleans will become the hub of…
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 Funding Seed
The Funding Seed is a New Orleans-based company that teaches people how to raise money for non-profit groups.
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…
The Louisiana Campaign for Tobacco-Free Living (TFL)
The Louisiana Campaign for Tobacco-Free Living offers comprehensive tobacco control initiatives with the goal of preventing and reducing tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke. Our programs/initiatives are available to all Louisiana residents and include initiatives such as: Community outreach/education/event sponsorship, Community Advocacy Grants (CAGs), Youth Initiative – Defy, Young…
THE ME GOD SEES, INC
THE ME GOD SEES, INC is a faith-based 501 ©(3) organization with a core emphasis of providing case management type services to persons diagnosed with a Substance Use Disorder. We are a Medicaid Enrollment Center, Recovery Supports provider with The Office for Addictive Disorders/Access To Recovery and an approved Department…
The Phoenix of New Orleans (PNOLA)
PNOLA is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the recovery of the residents of the Lower Mid-City neighborhood of New Orleans by providing direct assistance as well as developing community assets that ensure a vital neighborhood. PNOLA began in 2005 to help in the recovery of New Orleans after Hurricanes…
Think New Orleans
Think New Orleans is a community initiative to help neighborhood and non-profit organization use social media to collaborate on the recovery and to reach out to New Orleans supporters.
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.
Tulane University
Tulane’s purpose is to create, communicate, and conserve knowledge in order to enrich the capacity of individuals, organizations and communities to think, to learn, and to act and lead with integrity and wisdom. Tulane pursues this mission by cultivating an environment that focuses on learning and the generation of new…
Unified Nonprofits of Greater New Orleans
The Unified Nonprofits of Greater New Orleans is a coalition of nonprofits, leaders and advocates, unified to support, lead, and fully participate in recovery and rebuilding efforts following Hurricane Katrina. Our purpose is threefold: � To speak with a unified voice for the essential role of nonprofits � To provide…
