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Meet Chris Csonka

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]