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Interactive Website Launched to Help Louisiana Children with Developmental Disabilities

Contact: Mukul Verma, mverma@braf.org, (225) 387-6126 Parents and caregivers throughout Louisiana can now easily find services they need to support their children of all ages with autism and other developmental disabilities. A free interactive website provides two things for them. One, step-by-step “how-to” guides to maneuver through complicated and often overwhelming processes that affect all […]

Library’s big chip project

By Mukul Verma Librarians are pioneers. Smart and adventurous, they willingly try new ideas and technologies before employees of other government agencies do. Baton Rouge’s library system, for instance, will tag its entire collection with RFID chips. At a cost of more than $1.5 million, the tiny chips and readers will be good for patrons […]

Mid City Redux

Mid City redux

By Mukul Verma Dyke Nelson and David Weinstein are winning at calculated gambles. They have profited from redevelopments in challenged areas. Seeing the promise in Mid City, for instance, Nelson moved his architecture practice into a warehouse he converted on 14 Street. The duo is redeveloping the Entergy warehouses around the corner from Nelson’s office. […]

Foundation reports assets, grants; announces Barton winners

The Baton Rouge Area Foundation announced winners of its annual nonprofit management awards, and that its assets surpassed $600 million to reach a record at year-end 2016. At its annual meeting Wednesday evening, the Foundation’s members also elected Rodney C. Braxton to the board for a first, three-year term, while re-electing Mark C. Drennen, Perry […]

Dr. William Hansel: the venerable scientist

Frustration is no match for the drive to find out new things.” — DR. WILLIAM HANSEL Editor’s note: this story, written by Mary Ann Sternberg, appeared in the Fourth Quarter 2009 issue of Currents, the Foundation’s magazine. Dr. Hansel died at 98 in January 2017. The cancer drug he invented with other LSU researchers is […]

Foundation, W.K. Kellogg offer free service to clear property titles

The Baton Rouge Area Foundation, with support from a W.K. Kellogg Foundation grant, is underwriting a program to help people clear property titles, potentially making them eligible for thousands of dollars in federal grants for repairing their flood-damaged houses. Thousands of people live in homes that they don’t own outright because properties were passed on […]