News & Publications

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

New Schools for Baton Rouge offers radical reform model, the country is watching By Sara Bongiorni The stakes were always high for New Schools for Baton Rouge, which set out […]

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 […]