Metairie Park Country Day School
Metairie Park Country Day School enriches the lives of talented young people in a dynamic learning environment, building strength of intellect and strength of character within a community that is simultaneously challenging and supportive. Our students learn to be flexible, to be adaptable, and to face the challenges of life with honor, optimism, confidence, creativity, and a sense of humor.
Make a Wish Foundation
Tens of thousands of volunteers, donors and supporters advance the Make-A-Wish® vision to grant the wish of every child diagnosed with a life-threatening medical condition. In the United States and its territories, on average, a wish is granted every 37 minutes. We believe a wish experience can be a game-changer. This one belief guides us and inspires us to grant wishes that change the lives of the kids we serve.
Louisiana State Museum Foundation
The Louisiana State Museum was founded in 1906 by an act of the Louisiana State Legislature. It is a complex of national historic landmarks and newer facilities housing over a half million artifacts and works of art reflecting Louisiana’s legacy of historic events and cultural wealth. It is the largest caretaker and exhibitor of collections precious to Louisiana’s history and traditions.
Louisiana Children's Museum
The Louisiana Children’s Museum promotes hands-on participatory learning for children of all ages. Encouraging discovery through observation, inquiry, creative construction, role-playing, problem-solving and free play, the Museum motivates children to develop their cognitive, physical and social skills while enjoying fruitful interaction with adults and peers.
Dr. Sartor’s Prostate Cancer Foundation
Cathedral Montessori School
Having grown from the benevolence of the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral, Cathedral Montessori celebrates diversity of culture, tradition, and faith. It is our mission to prepare students for a life of independent and self-directed learning in a community that fosters a love of knowledge, pride in individual difference, and a harmonious relationship with the social and natural environment.
Boys Hope Girls Hope
Helps academically capable and motivated children-in-need to meet their full potential and become men and women for others by providing value-centered, family-like homes, opportunities and education through college.
Gratitude
Each of us has the power to impact positive change around us. No matter how small it may seem, it could make a huge difference for someone else. Because little things become big things. And the world becomes much brighter as a result.
Harry Thompson Center
The mission of the Harry Tompson Center is to provide a day shelter for the homeless where a variety of services are provided, including attending to basic hygienic needs, as well as attempting to find employment, housing, counseling and treatment for addiction and mental illness providing a degree of dignity and comfort to the chronically homeless, with the goal of re-integrating as many of the homeless as possible back into mainstream society.
The Children’s Bureau
The Children’s Bureau of New Orleans promotes growth and resilience through prevention, advocacy, education and intervention. Our mission is to improve the quality of life for children and families in greater New Orleans through valid and proven programs that enhance and strengthen mental health and wellness.
St. Mary’s Dominican High School
Dominican High School fosters the growth of each individual’s spiritual, intellectual, social, emotional, and physical qualities through the education of the whole person. Believing that individual fulfillment lies in dedication to Truth, Dominican affirms its commitment to its motto, VERITAS.