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 […]
Stephenson Stellar, a plucky science startup, focuses its cyber vision on space By Gary Perilloux In the six score and eight years since a stroke of Abraham Lincoln’s pen established the National Academy of Sciences, rarely had the society of scholars issued so dire a warning. The year—1991—found them raising the alarm in Computers at […]
A clear majority of Baton Rouge residents want the Baton Rouge Police Department and East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s office merged. They support a fee to clean up trash from waterbodies and believe that the parish has a very serious litter problem. And six of 10 parents want their children to leave the parish to live […]
Ardendale will blend services with a mix of housing By Sara Bongiorni Upcoming construction of a vital new roadway and groundbreaking on the first phase of $100 million in planned housing highlight the Ardendale project’s focus on transforming some of the poorest neighborhoods in Baton Rouge. Ardendale is being developed on 200 acres of raw […]
Government Street’s redesign has drawn businesses and residents to Mid City. Planner Camille Manning-Broome says the success is a beginning. By Mukul Verma With a reworking, Government Street has become a destination, and no longer a fast road to some- where else. The state spent $12 million to turn four lanes into two lanes and […]
By Sara Bongiorni A pandemic shakeup has restructured the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Baton Rouge into a regional organization focused on serving more children, and with new services that include mental-health counseling for kids coping with loss and upheaval. There is a new name for what is essentially a new organization. The Boys […]
Currents Q3 2021
By Jeff Roedel Leslie Lacy had no intention of steering her legal career toward representing children in foster care, and yet that path found her. The Tucson native’s experience included interning for Vice President Al Gore and focusing on family planning and special education cases after graduating from LSU Law School. But that changed when […]
By Mary Ann Sternberg On the concrete T-head of the old Baton Rouge municipal dock are now-fading words in white paint of John Lennon’s famed song “Imagine.” According to local lore, this graffiti appeared soon after singer and spiritualist Lennon was killed in 1980, when a devoted fan (one of many adventurous trespassers) sneaked out […]
A Water Institute tool could transform river management and transport across the globe By Sara Bongiorni For captains and their crews, moving goods can be a white-knuckle experience. Heavy with goods, boats must dodge each other through fast-moving and shifting currents, while also maneuvering around silt hidden under the water. The Water Institute of the […]
For more than two decades, the Baton Rouge Area Foundation has honored the best and most devoted nonprofit leaders with the John W. Barton Sr. Excellence in Nonprofit Management Awards. Four years ago, the Foundation added an award for a younger nonprofit leader—a rising star. How do we choose the winners? People who have charitable […]