Month: May 2022
The award is the Foundation’s largest single grant from its disaster response and restoration fund and will build commercial-scale solar power and back-up battery capacity for nonprofits that respond to disasters across the region.
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Foundation Announces $1 Million Grant to Community Lighthouse Project
The award is the Foundation’s largest single grant from its disaster response and restoration fund and will build commercial-scale solar power and back-up battery capacity for nonprofits that respond to disasters across the region.
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First Two Homes Built for Hurricane Ida Victims in Dulac
Volunteer group Mennonite Disaster Service is building ten homes and repairing 40 more as part of an $850,000 grant.
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GiveNOLA Day 2022 Raises Incredible $7.9 Million in Ninth Year
NEW ORLEANS – (May 3, 2022) Tuesday, the Greater New Orleans Foundation announced that while the final numbers won’t be confirmed for several weeks, initial returns indicate that the Greater New Orleans Foundation’s GiveNOLA Day, hosted by Baptist Community Ministries and powered by Entergy, generated an incredible $7.9 million in donations for a record breaking 947 nonprofits exceeding the 2021 total of 910. The total number of online contributions exceeded 57,000 at the close of the 24-hour period.
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