News & Insights

In June 2020, the Greater New Orleans Foundation and University of New Orleans released a study on the state of the nonprofit sector in Southeast Louisiana during the COVID-19 pandemic, based on surveys collected from late March to mid-April 2020.

To get updates, GNOF and UNO organized a virtual “town hall” in late July, open to all nonprofits throughout the region. Over 60 nonprofit leaders joined the town hall, and about half participated in small group discussions, sharing the following updates.

Today, the Greater New Orleans Foundation (GNOF) announced that it will accept donations to its Disaster Response and Restoration Fund in response to Hurricane Sally’s impact to Alabama and Florida.

We’re proud to provide grants that create real impact. That’s why we’re the steward of more than 900 donor-advised and donor-designated funds. Our donors make between $20 million and $30 million in grants to diverse nonprofits throughout the Greater New Orleans region, based on their specific areas of interest. View our most up-to-date list of current and upcoming grant opportunities here.

Greater New Orleans Foundation Activates Disaster Response & Restoration Fund for Tropical Storm Marco and Hurricane Laura. $50,000 in Grants Awarded to Regional Nonprofits.

Greater New Orleans Foundation, Gayle Benson, McIlhenny Company Announce $194,000 in New Grants from the Louisiana Service & Hospitality Family Assistance Program. $1.4 Million Awarded to Date to Service and Hospitality Workers. Round V Application Close on August 28th at 5 pm.

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We’re proud to provide grants that create real impact. That’s why we’re the steward of more than 900 donor-advised and donor-designated funds. Our donors make between $20 million and $30 million in grants to diverse nonprofits throughout the Greater New Orleans region, based on their specific areas of interest. View our most up-to-date list of current and upcoming grant opportunities here.

“We have been leaning in to raise the money and get it out the door as quickly as we can,” Greater New Orleans Foundation CEO Andy Kopplin said. “But it’s impossible for philanthropy to close the massive gap that would come from the expiration of federal unemployment assistance.”

COVID-19 has brought with it great trauma. In New Orleans, we’ve lost loved ones, jobs, and a world in which we could shake hands with neighbors and go outside without masks. Our children feel these losses. And for many of them, while this crisis is unprecedented, trauma is not. Many of our young people carry heavy weights that just got heavier; COVID-19 compounds existing pain and reopens old wounds.

Today, the Greater New Orleans Foundation announced the award of $505,000 to nonprofits in Southeast Louisiana providing assistance to families with young children, grassroots community health outreach, support for incarcerated and returning citizens, opportunity youth serving organizations, and supports for workers and small minority-owned business in the midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic.