GIVENOLA DAY SPECIAL ISSUE

MAYOR MITCH LANDRIEU IRMA THOMAS “I challenge our “Whatever you can community to demonstrate do, put a smile on unprecedented generosity someone’s face.” on GiveNOLA Day.”

LEAH CHASE IRVIN MAYFIELD “Don’t worry about the size “24 hours—but it only of the gift. Even the teeniest takes a minute to make a gift of generosity can ignite lasting impact.” great change.” What They

CHEF JOHN BESH PIERRE THOMAS “If this day can “One day that can Say change just one life, make the whole it’s worth it.” year better.” About GiveNOLA

STEVE GLEASON Day “GiveNOLA – ALLEN a day to be TOUSSAINT inspired to act.” “Make giving a now thing, not a later thing.” TROMBONE ANGELA HILL SHORTY “May 5th is “We can all connect to the day to give each other through the as one.” simple act of giving.”

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SPRING 2015 PHILANTHROPY AT WORK Louisiana Modified Dolls Orleans Public Education Network The Al Copeland Foundation Our sincere appreciation to the 574 nonprofit organizations Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra Our Daily Bread Food Bank of Tangipahoa The Chartwell Center Louisiana Restaurant Association Education Foundation Our Lady of Holy Cross College The Childhood and Family Learning Foundation in the 13-parish region participating in GiveNOLA Day 2015. Louisiana SPCA Ozanam Inn The COOL Cooperative, Inc. Love in Action Outreach PACE Greater New Orleans The Creativity Collective 30 by Ninety Theatre Collegiate Academies Green Light New Orleans Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement & Parkway Partners The Crown and Shield Foundation 504HealthNet Common Ground Relief, Inc. Groundwork New Orleans Development (CSED) Pelican Bomb The Family Center of Hope 5116 Magazine Street Preparatory High School Communities In Schools of Greater New Orleans, Inc Grow Dat Youth Farm Lower 9th Ward Homeownership Association Pelican Institute for Public Policy The First 72+ A Child’s Wish of Greater New Orleans Community Center of St Bernard Guardians Insititute lowernine.org People Program The First Tee of Greater New Orleans A Place of Restoration Community Leaders Advocating Student Success/ Gulf Coast Family Teaching Services Loyola University PINK House Inc. The Foundation for Terrebonne General Medical A Shared Initiative, Inc. Fannie C Williams Charter School Gulf Restoration Network Luke’s House Clinic Plaquemines Animal Welfare Scoiety (P.A.W.S.) Center ONE D AY T O A Studio in the Woods Community Visions Unlimited Habitat for Humanity STW Lutheran High School of Greater New Orleans Plaquemines Community CARE Centers Foundation, Inc The Foundation for the LSU Health Sciences Center AAAneurysm Outreach Community Works of Louisiana Hadassah Lycée Français de la Nouvelle-Orléans PlayBuild NOLA The Front Abeona House Child Discovery Center Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) Hail Mary Rescue Lyons-Burke Boosters PLEASE Foundation The Good Shepherd Nativity School Academy of the Sacred Heart Core Element Harmony Neighborhood Development MacDonell United Methodist Children’s Services Policy Institute for the Children of Louisiana The Greater New Orleans District Senior Olympics ACCESS Education Foundation Council on Alcohol & Drug Abuse for Harry Tompson Center Magnolia Comunity Services Pontchartrain Park Community Center The Green Project GIVE AS ONE ACLU of Louisiana Greater New Orleans Healing Hearts for Community Development Make Music NOLA Posse New Orleans The Idea Village Advocacy Center Court Watch NOLA HeartGift Louisiana Mardi Gras Indian Hall of Fame Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans The Inner Pup of New Orleans AfricaNola Covenant House Help Free An Angel Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center at Press Street The John Besh Foundation St. Tammany Parish Hospital Algiers Charter School Association Covington Food Bank Hermann-Grima + Gallier Historic House Museums Pro Bono Project The Learning Lab Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center at TGMC Alliance for Affordable Energy Creative Learning Center of Louisiana High Voltage, Inc. Project Homecoming, Inc. The Lens McDonogh #32 Literacy Academy Alliance Francaise de la Nouvelle-Orléans Crecent City Farmers Market/Market Umbrella Hike for KaTREEna Project Lazarus The Louisiana Academy of Continuing Dental McDonogh 35 Alumni Association MAY 5, 2015 • www.GiveNOLA.org Alliance Institute Crescent City CLT, Inc. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Louisiana Project Learn La-terre Education, Inc. McKenna Museum of African American Art Alzheimer’s Association Crescent City Lights Youth Theater Hogs For The Cause Project Spay/Neuter, Inc. The Lower Ninth Ward Living Museum MDA Summer Camp America WETLAND Foundation Crescent City Schools Holy Cross School Propeller: A Force for Social Innovation The Marigny Opera House Mercy Endeavors Senior Center American Cancer Society, Inc. Crime Stoppers of Tangipahoa, Inc. Homer A. Plessy Community School Prospect New Orleans The Nature Conservancy of Louisiana Mercy Family Center American Diabetes Association Crimestoppers GNO. Hope Community Resource Center Providence Community Housing The NET Charter High School MESA Production Company American Red Cross Crossroads NOLA Hope Extreme Puentes New Orleans, Inc. The NOCCA Institute Metairie Park Country Day School America’s Freedom Sailor Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Louisiana Chapter, Hope House, Inc. Q.U.E.E.N.S.,Inc. The NOLA Project New Orleans Metropolitan Center for Women and Children Amistad Research Center Hope Stone New Orleans Raintree Children and Family Services The Promise of Justice Initiative Daughters of Charity Foundation of New Orleans Metropolitan Crime Commission, Inc. Animal Rescue New Orleans HOPE The Premier Way, Inc Ralston Fletcher & Associates The Renaissance Project David’s Apple, LLC Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo Anti-Defamation League Hospice Foundation of the South Raymond Career College The Roots of Music, Inc. De La Salle High School Mid-City Ministries APEX Community Advancement Inc. Hotel Hope Rebuilding Together New Orleans The Salvation Army - New Orleans Area Command Delgado Community College Milne Inspiration Center (MIC-AMPED) Arc of Greater New Orleans - InterACT NOLA House of Esther Recirculating Farms Coalition The Troy Andrews Foundation DiscoveryFEST Afterschool and Ministry Against the Death Penalty ARISE Schools Humane Society of Louisiana ReNEW Schools The Trust For Public Land Summer Enrichment Program Mirabeau Family Learning Center, Inc. Art for Cats’ Sake ICAN Foundation Restaurant Opportunities Center of New Orleans The Waldorf Parents Association DOVIA New Orleans Morris Jeff Community School Arts Council of New Orleans Innocence Project New Orleans Restore or Retreat, Inc Times Picayune Doll and Toy Fund Down Syndrome Association of Greater New Orleans Moscow Nights Inc ArtSpot Productions InspireNOLA Charter Schools RHINO Contemporary Crafts Co. Tipitina’s Foundation Dress for Success New Orleans Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church A’s & Aces International High School of New Orleans ricRack Top Notch Sports Performance Enhancement, Inc. Drexel Prep Foundation Mount Carmel Academy Ashe Cultural Arts Center International School of Louisiana Ride New Orleans Total Community Action Dulac Community Center Musaica QUICK FACTS Assistance For Single Parents Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative Ronald McDonald House Charities of TRAC Early Learning Center of Woodland Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans ATD Fourth World Japan Society of New Orleans Greater New Orleans Treme for Treme Presbyterian Church NAMI New Orleans Audubon Louisiana Jason’s House Royal Castle Child Development Center Trinity Behavioral Health Services, Inc. • GiveNOLA Day is a 24-hour online giving event East St. Tammany Habitat for Humanity National Council of Jewish Women Audubon Nature Institute Jazz in the Park Saint Paul’s School Trinity Christian Community, Inc. Eastbank Collaborative of Charter Schools National Kidney Foundation of Louisiana Autism Society JDRF- Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Saint Peter Claver Foundation Trinity Counseling and Training Center hosted by the Greater New Orleans Foundation. Easter Seals Louisiana National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Louisiana AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps Jefferson Chamber Foundation Academy Sankofa CDC Trinity Episcopal Church Ecole Bilingue de la Nouvelle Orleans National Performance Network Back 2 Basics Sports Foundation Jefferson Children’s Advocacy Center School Leadership Center of Greater New Orleans Trinity Episcopal School ECONAE - community center National Society of Colonial Dames in America - Backyard Gardeners Network Jefferson Dollars for Scholars Seasons Grief & Loss Center Tulane University • It’s Tuesday, May 5, from 12:01 AM to Midnight. Eden House Louisiana Society Barataria-Terrebonne Estuary Foundation Jefferson Performing Arts Society Second Harvest Food Bank United Cerebral Palsy of Greater New Orleans Edgar “Dooky” Jr. and Leah Chase Family Foundation Neighborhood Development Foundation Bastion Community of Resilience Jefferson RISE Charter School Shared Housing of New Orleans United Houma Nation Edna Karr High School Neighborhoods Partnership Network Bayou Country Children’s Museum Jefferson SPCA Shotgun Cinema United Way for South Louisiana • It’s a day when everyone can be a philanthropist Einstein Group, Inc. NetWork Voluntours Bayou District Foundation Jericho Road Episcopal Housing Iniatiative Silence is Violence United Way of Southeast Louisiana Elevate New Orleans Inc. New Beginnings Schools Foundation by making a donation for as little as $10 to over Bayou Grace Community Services Jerusalem Economic Development Corporation Silverback Society, Inc UNITY of Greater New Orleans Ellis Marsalis Center for Music New Heights Therapy Center Bayou History Center, Inc. Jewish Children’s Regional Service (JCRS) Slidell Little Theatre University of New Orleans Foundation Emeril Lagasse Foundation New Life Counseling Center, Inc. 500 participating nonprofits. Bayou Lafourche Folklife and Heritage Museum Jewish Community Center Slidell Memorial Hospital Foundation Up2Us ERACE New Orleans Airlift Bayou Land RC&D Council Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana SoFAB Institute Urban Conservancy Excel Star, Inc. New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity Bayou Playhouse Jewish Family Service of Greater New Orleans South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center Urban Impact Ministries EXCELth, Incorporated New Orleans Artists Against Hunger and Homelessness • Last year, our inaugural year, we raised an Bayou Region Amateur Radio Society Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans Southeast Louisiana Council Boy Scouts of America Urban League of Greater New Orleans Excite Allstars New Orleans Citizen Diplomacy Council Southeast Louisiana Legal Services Ursuline Academy of New Orleans Belle Reve Faces of Culture/Allison Montana Institute of Junebug Productions astonishing $2.2 million from more than 19,000 New Orleans College Prep VAYLA New Orleans Benjamin Franklin High School Art, Culture, and Tradition Junior League of New Orleans Southern Animal Foundation New Orleans Council for Community and Justice Veterans Housing Outreach Ministries Better Than Ezra Foundation Faith Ministries, International Just the Right Attitude SpayMart, Inc individuals for the 300 participating nonprofits New Orleans Culinary & Hospitality Institute VIA LINK Big Class Families Helping Families of Jefferson Katrina National Memorial Foundation Museum Special Olympics Louisiana New Orleans Family Justice Alliance VIET Bike Easy Families Helping Families of Southeast Louisiana Keep Covington Beautiful, Inc. St Tammany Alliance for the Mentally Ill Inc AMI of New Orleans Film Society St Tammany Vieux Carre Commission Foundation Birdfoot Festival Family Promise of St Tammany Keep Terrebonne Beautiful, inc • This year’s goal is to raise $3 million from 25,000 New Orleans Food & Farm Network St. Andrew’s Episcopal School Vieux Carre Property Owners, Residents, and BISCO Family Service of Greater New Orleans Kenner Discovery Health Sciences Academy New Orleans Friends of Music St. Andrew’s Village LLC Associates, participants for our 574 participating nonprofits. Blackhawk Flight Foundation, Inc. Felicity Redevelopment, Inc. Kid Catch Foundation New Orleans Fruit Tree Project St. Anna’s Episcopal Church Visionary Philanthropic Media Arts Blights Out FestiGals, Inc. KID smART New Orleans Hispanic Heritage Foundation St. Augustine High School Foundation-Step It Up Boy Scouts of America -St. Tammany First Grace Community Alliance Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation’s Don Jamison St. Bernard Battered Women’s Program, Inc. Voice of the Ex-Offender • Thanks to our generous sponsors, we’ve raised Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeast Louisiana First Presbyterian Church of New Orleans Kingsley House Heritage School of Music St. Bernard Project Volunteers of America Greater New Orleans Boys Hope Girls Hope of Greater New Orleans FirstLine Schools KIPP New Orleans Schools New Orleans Jazz Celebration St. George’s Episcopal Church WAM - What About Me? over $370,000 to make the day more fun. Brain Injury Association of Louisiana Foundation for Science and Mathematics Education Lacombe Heritage Center New Orleans Jazz Orchestra St. George’s Episcopal School Warren Easton Charter High School Breakthrough New Orleans Foundation Preparatory. Inc. Ladies Leukemia League, Inc. New Orleans Kids Partnership St. John’s Historic Cemetery Association, Inc. We Heart Veterans, INC Breastoration Fourchon Oilman’s Foundation Lafourche Arc New Orleans Mission St. Joseph Catholic Elementary School WEEN DREAM • Every donation is stretched further because Bricolage Academy Freedom Movement, Inc. Lafourche Chamber Foundation New Orleans Museum of Art St. Mary’s Academy Alumnae Association What You Give Will Grow Bridge House / Grace House French Quarter Citizens, Inc. Lake Ponchartrain Basin Foundation New Orleans Opera Association participating nonprofits receive a proportional gift St. Michael Special School Willwoods Community Broad Community Connections French Quarter Festivals, Inc. Lakeview Shepherd Center New Orleans Oral School St. Patrick Roman Catholic Church Wind in my Feathers Bunny Friend Neighborhood Association Friends of City Park Lambeth House Foundation New Orleans Pharmacy Museum from the Lagniappe Fund. Additionally, prizes are St. Paul’ s Homecoming Center WLAE-TV Bureau of Governmental Research Friends Of Culture Land Trust for Louisiana New Orleans Police and Justice Foundation St. Paul’s Episcopal School Women With A VIsion Cabrini High School Friends of FIRST Inc. Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre New Orleans Public Library Foundation awarded to nonprofits that raise the most money St. Roch CDC Woodlands Conservancy Cafe Hope Friends of King Charter School District Lead Safe Louisiana New Orleans Recreation Development Foundation St. Tammany Animal Resource Team, Inc. WRBH Radio for the Blind and Print Handicapped, Inc. Cafe Reconcile Friends of Lafitte Corridor Leadership Lafourche New Orleans School of Glassworks, Inc. and receive the most gifts, and, Rock-Around-the- St. Tammany Community Housing Resource Board WWNO 89.9 FM Camp Restore Friends of Palmer Park Leading Educators New Orleans Speech and Hearing Center St. Tammany Council on Aging, Inc. WWOZ Clock Prizes are awarded randomly every hour. Cancer Association of Greater New Orleans Friends of St. Alphonsus Legacy Donor Foundation New Orleans VFW 8973 St. Tammany Hospital Foundation WYES-TV Cancer Crusaders, Inc. Friends of the Cabildo Leukemia & Lymphoma Society New Orleans Vocal Arts Chorale St. Tammany SALT Council Xavier University of Louisiana Capoeira and Brazilian Cultural Arts Center Friends of the New Orleans Public Library Liberty’s Kitchen New Orleans Women’s Shelter Photo © Tom Varisco St. Thomas Community Health Center YAYA Caps For Kids Funny Bones Improv LiftFund, formerly known as Accion Newcomb Art Gallery Stand for Children Louisiana YMCA of Greater New Orleans Carl Jung Society of New Orleans Geaux Create Lighthouse Louisiana NO/AIDS TASK Force STARC of Louisiana, Inc. Young Leadership Council CASA Jefferson, Inc. Get Checked or Check Out LIONMAN Foundation, Inc NolaVie Start The Adventure In Reading- STAIR Young Life New Orleans Eastbank CASA New Orleans Girl Scouts Louisiana East Live2LetLive North Rampart Community Center community foundations around the country participated in a giving day last May and STEM NOLA Youth Empowerment Project CASA of Lafourche Girls First Louis Satchmo Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp Northlake Nature Center Stuart Hall School for Boys Youth Rebuilding New Orleans CASA of Terrebonne Girls on the Run Bayou Region Louise S. McGehee School Northshore Community Foundation — Success Preparatory Academy Youth Run NOLA New Orleans came in for number of gifts and for most dollars raised Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans Girls On The Run New Orleans Louisiana Appleseed Northshore Families Helping Families second fourth Symphony Chorus of New Orleans Youth Service Bureau of St. Tammany Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux GiveNOLA Day Lagniappe Fund Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools Northshore Jewish Congregation Teach For America - Greater New Orleans YWCA of New Orleans CBNO/MAC Foundation Global Green USA Louisiana Bar Foundation Northshore Technical Community College a testament to the generosity of our giving community. Teaching Responsible Earth Education Zeus’ Rescues CCA Louisiana Goat in the Road Productions Louisiana Books2Prisoners NOVAC: the New Orleans Video Access Center Team Gleason Center for Development and Learning Greater New Orleans Association of the Deaf Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights Ochsner Clinic Foundation Tekrema Center for Art and Culture Central City Renaissance Alliance Greater New Orleans Breastfeeding Louisiana Children’s Museum Odyssey House Louisiana, Inc. Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival DON’T SEE YOUR FAVORITE NONPROFIT? Children’s Advocacy Center - Hope House Awareness Coalition Louisiana Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty Ogden Museum of Southern Art Terrebonne Children’s Advocacy Center Children’s Bureau of New Orleans Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Operation Homefront Louisiana/Mississippi The deadline has passed for GiveNOLA Christian Brothers School Greater New Orleans Foundation Louisiana Hospitality Foundation Terrebonne Foundation for Academic Excellence in Options For Independence Public Education Day 2015. Please be sure to encourage Coalition to Restore Coastal Lousiana (CRCL) Greater New Orleans Therapeutic Riding Center Louisiana Landmarks Society OPTIONS, Inc. Terrebonne Genealogical Society your favorite nonprofit to sign up for Coastal Communities Consulting Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra Louisiana Master Naturalist of Greater New Orleans, Inc Q: Why is philanthropy important Q: How are Entergy’s people getting Orleans Parish 4-H Foundation GiveNOLA Day 2016. to Entergy? involved in the effort? A: Entergy has a long history of supporting the A: Entergy employees will be volunteering at the THANK YOU GIVENOLA DAY SPONSORS community because we can only be as successful Donation Station at Lafayette Square from 7am to as the communities we serve. We believe that 7pm to assist people making donations online. The PRESENTING SPONSOR FRIENDS ROCK-AROUND-THE-CLOCK MEDIA SPONSORS reinvesting in the communities where we live and Donation Station will be equipped with computers so Entergy All American Grease Companies $1,000 randomly drawn hourly prizes Baldwin, Haspel, Burke and Mayer made possible by: everyone will have access to GiveNOLA.org. work will enhance the vitality and quality of life in Stephanie and David Barksdale those areas, and we recognize that it’s simply the We invite everyone to Lafayette Square for lunch and LEAD SPONSOR Brown’s Dairy Greater New Orleans Foundation Bellwether Technologies Cox Charities right thing to do. happy hour since a portion of the proceeds from food Canal Barge Lorraine and Scott Chotin and drinks will be donated to the Lagniappe Fund. Capitol One Patty and John Elstrott SUPPORTING SPONSOR HRI Properties Q: Why is Entergy supporting Boh Brothers Favrot and Shane Jones Walker Lauren and Bryan Fitzpatrick GiveNOLA Day? Q: What’s your GiveNOLA Day advice? Mike and Lynn Coatney Merrill Lynch Greater New Orleans Foundation staff Family Foundation Fund Postlethwaite and Netterville A: We believe in the power of people. Nothing A: Wake up, have your cup of coffee and go to Gillis, Ellis, and Baker JoAnn and Harry Greenberg Fund Villere and Company M. Maunsell Howard embodies that more than GiveNOLA Day, where GiveNOLA.org to give! Find your favorite charity or Laitram Lemle Fund Keil’s Antiques everyone can be a philanthropist by donating $10 or discover a new one. Watch the leaderboard all day— WITH Shell Beach Fund PARTNERS Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lamar more on May 5th. We’re excited to be a part of this I’m sure we’ll all be amazed by the generosity of Adams & Reese Moses Engineers effort because together we’re going to raise $3 million this community as the numbers of donors and dollars Boettcher Fund Roger Ogden CHARLES RICE in just one day for over 550 nonprofit organizations. climb higher and higher. Bruce Blakemore Poitevent Fund Emily and Tapash Palit President & CEO, Entergy New Orleans New Orleans Convention & Visitors Bureau Perlis Clothing Peter A. Mayer Advertising Trepwise Photo © Jackson Hill Anonymous donors

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MAY 14, 2015 • 4:30 PM CARVER THEATER • 2101 ORLEANS AVENUE Biennial meeting of the Greater New Orleans Foundation and presentation of the Spark Plug Award to the Ford Foundation.

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