BRAF Releases New Opportunity Data Project Briefing
Report details economic mobility and family prosperity in EBR Parish. BATON ROUGE, La. — The Baton Rouge Area Foundation, in partnership with Common Good Labs, has released a new Opportunity […]
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Conversation with Serena Pandos, new director of Louisiana Art and Science Museum
Serena Pandos is the new executive director and president of Louisiana Art and Science Museum, replacing Carol Gikas, who retired after 39 years. Pandos was president and executive director of […]
Something to prove
New Schools for Baton Rouge offers radical reform model, the country is watching New Schools for Baton Rouge CEO Chris Meyer By Sara Bongiorni The stakes were always high for […]
Lanes of their own
Under a new plan, BR could build extensive bike, pedestrian network By Sara Bongiorni The draft of a master plan for developing a parishwide network of bike and pedestrian paths […]
Jamel Brinkley, Gaines Book Award winner
Jamel Brinkley won the 2018 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence for his debut collection A Lucky Man. The Baton Rouge Area Foundation started and oversees the $10,000 book […]
Currents Q1 2019
Currents Q1 2019
2019 Annual Report
2019 Annual Report
A Tale of Two Streets
RDA’s Chris Tyson By Maggie Heyn Richardson To the south, there is Nicholson Drive, Louisiana Highway 30, a major corridor that runs from downtown Baton Rouge past Tiger Stadium and […]
Pennington Biomedical’s Next Act
Few public health problems are as complex as obesity. Dr. John Kirwan By Maggie Heyn Richardson Forty percent of adults in the United States now struggle with the condition, the […]
The G-word
Gentrification is improving neighborhoods in Mid City. By Sara Bongiorni The Economist magazine calls gentrification the dirtiest word in American cities. Used to describe an influx of middle-class, often white […]
Currents Q4 2018
Currents Q4 2018