BRAF tasked by city leaders with exploring implementation of report’s recommendations Baton Rouge, LA – The City-Parish, East Baton Rouge Parish School System, and Baton Rouge Area Foundation today announced […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEApril 4, 2023 Contact: Travis Hutchins, Baton Rouge Area Foundation, THutchins@braf.org, (225) 381-7081Sarah Gardner, Baton Rouge Are Foundation, SGardner@braf.org, (225) 387-6126 Baton Rouge Area Foundation opens entries for 17th […]
BRAF elects new Board Members, issues awards for nonprofit and community leadership, and hosts discussion with Special Advisor Mitch Landrieu and Congressman Garret Graves during annual meeting. Baton Rouge, LA – […]
The Baton Rouge Area Foundation announced this week they have concluded a detailed planning process that involved participation from hundreds of community members during much of last year. The full […]
The Baton Rouge Area Foundation today announced the newest cohort of its Development Fellows program. The selected participants represent a diverse cross-section of the Capital Region’s non-profit organizations. Development Fellows […]
Jacinda Townsend’s second novel, Mother Country, has won the 2022 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, presented annually by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation to support an emerging African […]
By Sara Bongiorni Build Baton Rouge is conducting a first-of-its-kind experiment in urban redevelopment. It’s incubating a hybrid land bank and trust to advance the redevelopment of blighted lots on […]
By Sara Bongiorni Illustration by Carolyn Blakley Suicides on the Northshore spiked sharply more than two years after hurricanes Katrina, Gustav and Isaac and 2016 spring flooding. A new initiative […]
By Mukul Verma An island is being born. Made by man and nature, the atoll in University Lake is doing double duty. It’s an experiment to determine the best method […]
In Livingston Parish, Chantelle Varnado, with a hand from her family, cares for 400 kids with special needs By Amy Alexander | Tim Mueller photos Chantelle Varnado has a passion […]
Two synagogues forge a bolder future for Judaism in Baton Rouge By Gary Perilloux Generations of Jewish families practiced their faith consistently in Baton Rouge, but they did so in […]