Community Organizations
“City-Works communicates to a broad audience the importance of design in creating a vital and vibrant urban environment. We have worked city-wide with neighborhood organizations, developers, and city officials, along with architects and planners, to help forge lines of communication, talk about the importance of good design, and do the…
CBNO is a racially and culturally diverse group whose mission is to provide leadership and catalyze change toward the achievement of a Blueprint for a Better New Orleans. CBNO will accomplish its mission by providing and maintaining an advocacy role that encourages the kinds of partnership, collaboration and candid conversation…
Common Ground Relief’s mission is to provide short term relief for victims of hurricane disasters in the gulf coast region, and long term support in rebuilding the communities affected in the New Orleans area. Common Ground Relief is a community-initiated volunteer organization offering assistance, mutual aid and support. We house…
Community Mediation Services is a non profit that promotes non violent approaches to resolving conflict. CMS offers training in mediation and restorative justice practices for schools, the criminal justice system, neighborhoods, and other organizations. Mediators are available on a sliding scale. Restorative justice practitioners help organizations institute restorative practices such…
concordia is a community based planning and design team with a collective passion for the principles of concord. We implement our work through an integrative and participatory process that addresses physical, cultural, social, educational, organizational and economic assets and needs.
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…
Mahalia Jackson Center 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 parenting, prenatal care, medical, nutrition, fitness and other health services, social services including WIC and food stamps, public library,…
The Eastbank Collaborative of Charter Schools (ECCS) is a formal alliance of 10 public schools in Orleans Parish which promotes public charter schools as a permanent option for children. The ECCS is a 501c3 working to maintain the maximum autonomy of each member school, while protecting the long-term structure, durability…
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…
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…