25 leaders selected to receive training in the field of development Baton Rouge, Louisiana – The Baton Rouge Area Foundation today announced the 2024 cohort of Development Fellows, a program of the Foundation’s Center for Nonprofit Excellence. One of the Foundation’s signature programs, Development Fellows is a workshop series that teaches fundraising fundamentals to enhance […]
Lessons from Little Rock’s emergence as the Cycling Hub of the South By Jeff Roedel Imagine riding a bike up Mount Everest. Then down its rocky peaks. Then back up again. That’s roughly the elevation champion rider Rebecca Rusch traversed through Little Rock and across Arkansas, from the Ouachitas to the Ozarks, while setting a […]
The Water Institute and Tulane team on a waterfront plan in Argentina By Maggie Heyn Richardson South of Argentina’s cosmopolitan capital of Buenos Aires is the city of Quilmes, a port city with a half million people situated on the Río de la Plata. The widest river in the world, the Río de la Plata […]
Currents 3Q 2019
HOW IT BEGAN: Bikeshare in Baton Rouge began as a project of the Baton Rouge Area Foundation and turned into a collaboration with public agencies and private companies. Partners on the project are Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, Mayor Sharon Weston Broome and the Metro Council, BREC, LSU, Southern University, Blue Cross Blue Shield […]
Contact: Mukul Verma, mverma@braf.org, 225-362-9260 The Baton Rouge Area Foundation has approved a $75,000 grant to Tulane University and The Water Institute of the Gulf to support their work in developing a plan to remake the waterfront in Quilmes, Argentina. Tulane’s School of Architecture and the Institute will provide the needed coastal science and urban […]
Collaboration aims to prevent people from using at all By Maggie Heyn Richardson Brice Mohundro, Opioid Stewardship Task Force chair Brice Mohundro, Opioid Stewardship Task Force chair The opioid epidemic continues to be a challenge for communities nationwide, including the Capital Region, but an effort among partners of the Baton Rouge Health District is fighting […]
A charismatic yellow bird worth saving By Sara Bongiorni GeoDad was more or less standard issue as Prothonotary Warblers go. Bright-eyed, blunt-tailed and just five inches long, the songbird with a yellow head and a plump body was a confirmed father by his second breeding season at BREC’s Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center—all standard stuff for […]
A project to reclaim Plank Road would link the area to downtown, LSU with rapid transit By Sara Bongiorni Planned redevelopment of Plank Road in north Baton Rouge centers on a model of fast, comfortable and reliable bus transit with a record of sparking investment in blighted corridors of big U.S. cities. Transit-oriented elements of […]
Currents Q2 2019
The Foundation has hired a coordinator for a Safety and Justice Challenge project. Chris Csonka will collaborate with local justice officials to reduce the local jail population. The goal is to create an framework where justice system officials can partner to implement reforms across the system, such as measures to improve the efficiency and effectiveness […]