Nearly $1 Million in Grants Assures Thousands of New Orleans Area Children Enjoy Safe Summer Fun and Learning
Unified Summer Grants Collaborative partners United Way for the Greater New Orleans Area, Greater New Orleans AfterSchool Partnership, Emeril Lagasse Foundation, The Wallace Foundation and the New York Life Foundation announce the collaborative is providing funding to 52 summer programs totaling more than $974 thousand dollars and serving more than 15,000 children and youth.
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United Way Focuses Long Term Goals on Health, Education and Income
In response to the release of a report detailing a precipitous decline in key education, personal finance and health indicators, United Way of America recently announced that it will direct it’s giving toward three 10-year goals targeting the high school dropout rate, struggling working families and the number of youths and adults considered healthy.
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United Way Celebrates Plaquemines Parish!
The Plaquemines Parish United Way Victory/ Kickoff Luncheon took place on June 4 in the Belle Chasse Auditorium. Companies in the parish raised over $272,000 under the dedicated leadership of Plaquemines United Way Chairman and former Assistant District Attorney Charles Ballay.
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Labor and United Way – Working for a Better Community
United Way for the Greater New Orleans Area met with Area Local Unions and AFL – CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations) President Mr. Tiger Hammond at a luncheon given in appreciation to all local unions earlier in the year. The luncheon also addressed ways to partner together on major social and human service initiatives in our area in the future.
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LAUGH OFF KATRINA
Eddie Izzard Comedy Show to Benefit Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans
Comedian and actor Eddie Izzard will perform a benefit concert helping low and moderate-income New Orleans residents become sustainable homeowners on Monday, June 23rd, at 7:30 p.m. at Tulane University’s McAlister auditorium. One hundred percent of proceeds will be going to Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans.
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Governor Bobby Jindal addressed the importance of proactively planning
for the ’08 hurricane season and highlighted the newly launched website
GET A GAME PLAN (http://getagameplan.org)
during a press conference at the
Saints Facility on May 30th.
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Visit the GET A GAME PLAN website
to find links to PDFs and websites that can help you develop a simple but successful game plan for your family. That way, they'll know what to do, where to go and who to call when there's a hurricane.
So, do what winning teams like the Jindals, the Miles', and
Better Than Ezra have done:
GET A GAME PLAN!
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2008 SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
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