Partner Organizations
BISCO
BISCO’s mission is to bring together local residents through faith institutions of multiple denominations in order to develop a network of relationships, capacity-building programs and trainings focused on addressing issues of communities from a grassroots level.
Blue Moon Fund
Blue Moon Fund works to build human and natural resilience to a changing and warming world. They use natural, social, and financial capital to implement new models in high-biodiversity regions around the world.
Center for Planning Excellence
Center for Planning Excellence is a non-profit planning organization that champions the power of good planning to build livable, resilient communities throughout Louisiana through their work as policy advocates, educators and planning experts. They provide best-practice planning models, innovative policy and project ideas, and planning and implementation assistance to individual communities that wish to create and enact plans at all scales that provide sustainable approaches to transportation and infrastructure needs, environmental issues, and quality design for the built environment.
Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana
Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana’s mission is to drive bold, science-based action to rebuild coastal Louisiana through outreach, restoration, and advocacy. CRCL has a history of guiding policy, watch-dogging funding, and advocating equitable, sustainable restoration for coastal Louisiana and its communities.
Coastal Communities Consulting, Inc.
Coastal Communities Consulting, Inc. is a nonprofit organization in Southeast Louisiana to explicitly address the needs of the region’s coastal entrepreneurs and their families, providing business technical assistance, social support services, economic development, continued disaster assistance, and coastal issues awareness and education. With strong emphasis on equity and economic stability, CCC’s mission is to secure coastal communities’ resilience by developing transitional mechanisms to support businesses and families on the front lines of ecological, climate, and policy change. For the past 10 years, CCC has provided multilingual programs and services to over 1600 clients and businesses across 7 coastal parishes.
Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority
The Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority is Louisiana’s central authority that is responsible and accountable for oversight of all coastal protection and restoration activities and funds, and it wanted a coordinated plan of action with clear goals and achievable objectives. CPRA is responsible for the implementation and enforcement of the state’s Coastal Master Plan, Louisiana’s Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast.
Greater New Orleans, Inc.
Greater New Orleans, Inc. is a regional economic development alliance serving the 10-parish region of Southeast Louisiana that includes Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. James, St. John, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, and Washington parishes. Their mission is to create a region where our families can live and prosper, a region with abundant job opportunities and excellent quality of life, indicated by the presence of a robust, accessible, and growing middle class in Southeastern Louisiana.
Greater New Orleans Foundation
Greater New Orleans Foundation is a philanthropic institution dedicated to driving positive impact through philanthropy, leadership, and action in the Greater New Orleans Region. They also provide civic leadership within the Greater New Orleans region to help address the city’s biggest challenges, in order to improve the everyday lives of the people that live here for generations to come.
Healthy Community Services
Healthy Community Services’ work focuses on ensuring the connectivity of neighbors to each other, in order to foster a sense of community. This is achieved through a myriad of engagement activities around health, food, green infrastructure, and urban stormwater management.
Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation
Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation’s mission and values are focused on the 16 parishes within the Lake Pontchartrain Basin. Their work drives environmental sustainability and stewardship through scientific research, education and advocacy. LPBF developed and advocates the Multiple Lines of Defense as an integrated and necessary approach to build resilient coastal communities.
NOVAC
NOVAC’s mission is the cultivation of independent voices and visions. For over four decades, NOVAC has provided education, training, resources, and opportunities to Louisiana’s storytellers. Our daily work connects locals in New Orleans and Baton Rouge to creative and economic opportunities, while supporting innovative and community-based storytelling projects and programs.
Restore or Retreat
Restore or Retreat is a non-profit coastal advocacy group created by coastal Louisiana residents and stakeholders who recognize that the Barataria and Terrebonne basins are the two most rapidly eroding estuaries on earth, and that this erosion represents an economic and ecological crisis. With a growing membership of over 250 businesses and individuals, they seek to identify, expedite and aggressively engage solutions to urgently achieve comprehensive coastal restoration.
Restore the Mississippi Delta
Restore the Mississippi Delta is a coalition of Environmental Defense Fund, National Audubon Society, the National Wildlife Federation, Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, and Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation. They are working to rebuild coastal Louisiana’s nationally-significant landscape to protect people, wildlife and jobs.
Rockefeller Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation’s mission is to promote the well-being of humanity throughout the world. Today the Foundation advances new frontiers of science, data, policy, and innovation to solve global challenges related to health, food, power, and economic mobility. As a science-driven philanthropy focused on building collaborative relationships with partners and grantees, The Rockefeller Foundation seeks to inspire and foster large-scale human impact that promotes the well-being of humanity by identifying and accelerating breakthrough solutions, ideas and conversations.
The Data Center
The Data Center is an independent research organization whose aim is to share data analysis with the public and inform key regional decisions in southeast Louisiana. Founded in 1998 as a product of Nonprofit Knowledge Works, The Data Center has a strong track record bringing reliable and actionable data to decision makers in southeast Louisiana.
University of New Orleans-Center for Hazards Assessment, Response and Technology
University of New Orleans-Center for Hazards Assessment, Response and Technology (UNO-CHART) is an applied social science hazards research center that partners with and supports Louisiana communities and national activities in efforts to achieve disaster resilience through risk reduction and mitigation. Their vision is to support applied research focusing on sustainability and resilience strategies that acknowledge natural, technological, and environmental risks in the region, and to collaborate with similar programs across the country.
Zion Travelers Cooperative Center
Zion Travelers Cooperative Center is a faith-based nonprofit that supports the voices of African-Americans on the southeast east bank of Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. Their organizational objectives are around coastal protection, disaster preparedness, political representation, rebuilding, new program development, organizing, networking, and leadership development.