News
- 2012 Barton Award winners named Foundation chooses Michael Manning, Keith Ouchley and Michael Tipton as best nonprofit leaders.
- Water Institute begins operations The Water Institute of the Gulf has launched an independent organization dedicated to research of coastal and deltaic systems and applying this knowledge for the benefit of society.
- EBR residents frustrated, but willing to spend to improve parish Annual CityStats report also reveals half against gay marriage; big support for high-speed rail
- Foundation reports record year The Baton Rouge Area Foundation reported its best year in history, with $140 million in donations helping to boost total assets to an estimated $640 million at year-end 2010.
- LaValle wins Ernest Gaines book award Victor LaValle was presented the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence at an award ceremony Thursday, Jan. 27 at the Manship Theatre in downtown Baton Rouge.
- CGI employees donate to Gulf restoration Employees of CGI today contributed $14,500 to the Baton Rouge Area Foundation, which will grant the funds to nonprofits that are reclaiming the Gulf Coast after the BP oil leak.
With a culture and history of philanthropy and a nearly decade long presence in Louisiana.
- NeighborWorks® America grant spurs redevelopment With a generous $675,000 grant from NeighborWorks America, the Baton Rouge Area
Foundation and partners continue to reclaim Old South Baton Rouge.
- Barton nonprofit award winners named Liz Betz, Derek Gordon and Ginger Hunt are the 2009 winners of the John W. Barton Sr. Excellence in Nonprofit Management Awards.
- Ravi Howard wins 2008 Gaines book award Ravi Howard’s fictionalized account of the effects of a 1981 Mobile, Ala., lynching has won the $10,000 Ernest J. Gaines Award For Literary Excellence.
- Foundation makes Hurricane Gustav grants The Baton Rouge Area Foundation has made more than a quarter-million dollar in grants for Hurricane Gustav relief and committed $200,000 to help the Lake Charles region and Acadiana recover after Gustav and Hurricane Ike.
- Foundation launches CityStats, an indicator project The Baton Rouge Area Foundation is starting an indicators project to track the quality of life in East Baton Rouge.
- Ernest J. Gaines book award winner named The winner of the first annual Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence is Ms. Olympia Vernon for her novel, A Killing In This Town.
- Foundation unveils 10/12 Marketing Campaign Energy, from the people and the land, makes South Louisiana unique. Now the cultural, entrepreneurial and economic energy of the region will be used in a branding and marketing campaign to promote economies that stretch from Lake Charles through Lafayette and Baton Rouge to the Northshore along Interstates 10 and 12.
- NeighborWorks provides Old South BR grant NeighborWorks America, a national community development corporation, has given a $675,000 grant to the Baton Rouge Area Foundation to revitalize Old South Baton Rouge.
- Foundation creates community foundation for Northshore A new community foundation to make grants and take on pivotal projects has been formed to work along the Northshore area of Louisiana.
