Community Impact

Community Impact: Orleans Place Matters Using Data For Neighborhood Advocacy

Ian McNulty — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:24:00 +0000

From crime and jobs to education and local history, a new program is analyzing how factors in our neighborhoods and closest to home impact life in New Orleans, and it's giving residents the data they need to petition for positive change.

Community Impact: Resurrection After Exoneration Program Advocates For Criminal Justice Reform

Ian McNulty — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:24:00 +0000

After spending many years behind bars before being exonerated, a group of criminal justice reformers are working to teach New Orleans youth the value of their freedom and their own power to make the right choices.

Community Impact Series: New Orleans Kids Partnership

Ian McNulty — Tue, 07 May 2013 13:27:00 +0000

In the new landscape of public education in New Orleans, many students crisscross the city each day to attend classes. But a new initiative is aimed at making the neighborhood school just down the street into a more accessible hub to find enrichment programs and other services.

Community Impact Series: National Alliance on Mental Illness

Ian McNulty — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:25:00 +0000

Family members are often the first to notice signs of mental illness in a loved one, and in many cases they hold the key to unlocking treatment. One local nonprofit is helping them cope with the impact of mental illness on the whole family and showing them how to be better advocates for the long haul.

Local Nonprofit Helps Cultivate Film Community

Ian McNulty — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:26:00 +0000

As film production work pours into Louisiana, a nonprofit media arts group is helping locals access jobs and cultivating a more robust local film community.

Community Impact Series: LPO Educational Outreach

Ian McNulty — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:31:00 +0000

How music education, delivered by the region's professional orchestra, is helping young students tap their own creative potential.

Community Impact Series: BreakOUT Organizing LGBT Youth as Advocates

Ian McNulty — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:17:00 +0000

How one local group is organizing LGBT youth as advocates for their own community.

Community Impact Series: Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association

Ian McNulty — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:20:00 +0000

A high school student shows up at her community center for homework help and a few years later she's an advocate for reforming her community's public schools. That's just the latest chapter for a nonprofit tapping the potential of young leaders in New Orleans East.

Community Impact Series: Up2Us

Ian McNulty — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:20:00 +0000

The national nonprofit Up2Us recently expanded to New Orleans, bringing more youth sports coaches and a mentoring program that gives students a boost that can extend far from the court or playing field.

Community Impact Series: Puentes New Orleans

Ian McNulty — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:20:00 +0000

As the area's greatly-increased Latino population settles in, a nonprofit aims to bridge divides of education, economic opportunity and political access in their new home.