Significant and sustained business and philanthropic investment in proven community-based youth service organizations, to help them grow their impact and drive generational change.
| A $15M commitment (over three years) from the private and philanthropic sectors for youth support services. |
- $5M for Youth Services organizations, Year 1
- Add “Parent Service Organizations” as eligible
- $15M for Youth Services organizations, by end of Year 3
- Begin reporting on uses and impacts of funds in June 2023
- Help promote best-practice models and organizations
WHO:
- Eligible grantees will be community-based nonprofit organizations in good standing with a track-record of success in providing effective youth services
WHAT:
- $15M total commitment: $5M per year for three years
- Funding from new or expanded private sector sources, including business, philanthropy and individuals (local and national)
- Over $3.8 for Year 1 already distributed and/or secured
- Funding will support youth services
WHEN:
- Year 1 of full program will be July 2022 – June 2023
WHERE: New Orleans
WHY: Investment in our young people is essential if they are going to actualize their potential, and we are going to break the cycle of violence in our communities. A dual approach of concurrent investment in organizations with a track record of youth service success, and increasing support for law enforcement, will drive sustainable, positive change in New Orleans.
Youth Service Organizations in Greater New Orleans
You are invited to give to an organization below directly, and if so – let us know – or donate to the NOLA Coalition fund by clicking the Donate to Our Youth button
- 100 Black Men of Metro New Orleans
- 826 New Orleans
- A’s & Aces
- Agenda for Children
- Alpha Youth Leadership Academy
- Bar None By Design
- Bard Early College in New Orleans
- Be Loud Studios
- Black Man Rising Movement
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Louisiana
- BreakOUT!
- Bridge House/Grace House
- Brothers Empowered to Teach Initiative
- CADA Prevention & Recovery Center: H.E.R.O. Kids
- CADA Prevention & Recovery Center: Level Up
- CADA Prevention & Recovery Center: Too Good for Drugs
- Café Reconcile
- Center for Resilience
- Child Evangelism Fellowship of Greater New Orleans
- City Year New Orleans
- College Track New Orleans
- Community Commitment Education Center
- Community Sailing New Orleans
- Community Works
- Contemporary Arts Center
- Covenant House New Orleans
- Crimestoppers Inc.
- Cultivating Youth
- Dancing Grounds
- Daughters Beyond Incarceration
- Dibia DREAM
- Dryades YMCA
- Each One Save One
- Efforts of Grace
- Electric Girls
- Ellis Marsalis Center for Music
- EnergyWise
- Excite All Stars
- Families and Friends for Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children (FFLIC)
- Generation Success
- Girl Scouts Louisiana East
- Girls on the Run
- Glam U, Inc
- Goat in the Road Productions
- Heart of Passion
- High Voltage
- Ignite Foundation
- Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies (IWES)
- Jesus Project Ministries / Apple Street Learning Center
- Junior Achievement of Greater New Orleans
- Kedila Family Learning Center
- KID smART
- Kingsley House Summer Youth Camp
- Liberty’s Kitchen
- Life Transformation Community Center
- Limitless Vistas, Inc.
- LOOP NOLA
- Longue Vue
- Louisiana Children’s Museum
- Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
- Louisiana Green Corps
- Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
- Louisiana State University Agricultural Center (LSU AgCenter)
- Loyola University New Orleans Upward Bound Program
- Make Music NOLA
- Metropolitan Track Club
- Metropolitan Youth Foundation, Inc.
- Milne Inspiration Center
- Miracle League of Greater New Orleans
- Navigate NOLA
- Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans
- New Orleans Ballet Association (NOBA)
- New Orleans Career Center
- New Orleans Children and Youth Planning Board
- New Orleans Dance Collective (NODC)
- New Orleans Hispanic Heritage Foundation
- New Orleans Public Library
- New Orleans Recreation Development (NORD)
- New Orleans Rowing Club
- New Orleans Technical Education Partner
- New Orleans Video Access Center
- NOLA YouthWorks Mayor Summer Program: Intern NOLA
- North Rampart Community Center: After School Program
- Operation Restoration: Operation Girls
- Operation Spark
- Opportunities Academy
- Orleans Parish 4-H Foundation
- Passion Dance: Youth Program
- Project Butterfly New Orleans
- Project Peaceful Warriors
- Public Allies New Orleans
- Puentes New Orleans
- Reaching for the Stars
- Rethink New Orleans
- Roots of Music
- Roots of Renewal
- Save Our Youth NOLA
- Silence is Violence
- Silverback Society
- Sketch Basin
- Son of a Saint
- Southern Food and Beverage Museum: Kids in the Kitchen
- Start the Adventure in Reading (STAIR)
- Strategic Thoughts L3c
- Take the Lead Foundation
- Taking and Bringing Back Our Youth Ministries (TBOY)
- Tekrema Center for Art and Culture
- The 1881 Institute
- The 18th Ward
- The Beautiful Foundation
- The COOL Cooperative
- The Cowen Institute
- The Cowen Institute: Trellis
- The Dupre’ Foundation
- The First Tee of Greater New Orleans
- The Orchid Society
- Thrive 9th Ward Community Center
- Train Up a Child NOLA
- TrainingGrounds
- Travis Hill Rises
- Tulane University Swim 4 Success
- Turning Tables NOLA
- unCommon Construction
- Upturn Arts
- Urban League of Louisiana
- VAYLA
- VIET
- We Got Y’all
- Whole Village Art Therapy
- YAYA
- Young Audiences
- Young Leadership Council
- Youth Empowerment Project
- Youth Rebuilding New Orleans
- Youth Run NOLA
- YouthForce NOLA
Note: Youth Service nonprofits are not required to sign onto The NOLA Coalition platforms as a condition of being funded
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