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BRAF Releases
- Three Firms Shortlisted for Downtown Master Plan
- Aaliyah Bilal named winner of the 17th annual Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence.
- Baton Rouge Area Foundation launches next installment of Opportunity Data Project
- Baton Rouge Area Foundation Announces New Cohort of Development Fellows
- Baton Rouge Area Foundation releases 15th Annual CityStats Report
- Inaugural Cohort of Nonprofit Board Fellows Announced
- Eric Dexter selected as first-ever Vice President of Civic Leadership at Baton Rouge Area Foundation
- Baton Rouge Area Foundation launches the Giving Store
- Baton Rouge Area Foundation expands services to nonprofits with establishment of new division
- Submission Window Opens for 17th Annual Gaines Award
- Baton Rouge Area Foundation shares updates at 2023 annual meeting.
- Baton Rouge Area Foundation launches new strategic framework.
- Baton Rouge Area Foundation Announces newest cohort of Development Fellows
- Jacinda Townsend wins 16th Annual Ernest Gaines Book Award for Mother Country
- Nathan Harris wins 15th Annual Ernest J Gaines Award for Literary Excellence
- AT&T Donates $375,000 to the Hurricane Ida Relief Fund to Support Communities Impacted by Hurricane Ida
- Survey: EBR backs stormwater fee, believes BRPD & Sheriff should be merged
- Baton Rouge Area Foundation’s John Davies Announces Retirement
- CityStats survey: Majority don’t want to attend big events and fly; nearly one-fourth shifted to working from home
- Foundation Grants to Rework Waterfront in Argentinian City
- BR Area Foundation Grants $47 million, New Board Members Elected
- The Newtron Group donates to Water Campus Project
- Interactive Website Launched to Help Louisiana Children with Developmental Disabilities
- Foundation reports assets, grants; announces Barton winners
- Foundation, W.K. Kellogg offer free service to clear property titles
- Foundation Announces BR Bikeshare plan
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Report, Comprehensive Study of Resources in the Capital Region
- Entergy grants $300,000 to BRAF Flood Relief Fund
- Foundation Grants $1.6 Million in First Round of Flood Relief
- Capital One donates $250,000 to Flood Relief Fund
- Foundation Recruits Leader for Crisis Center Efforts
- BRAF Assets Rise; Board Members Elected
- First Marcia Kaplan Kantrow Award Winner Named
- Consultants offer plan for mental health treatment center
- Consultant Hired to Write Plan for EBR Mental Health Treatment Center
- EBR Survey: Crime worries down, medical marijuana OK
- Economist: Mental Health Center would save EBR millions
BRAF Research
- Report: Start Treatment Center for Mental Illness, Substance Abuse
- Health District Master Plan
- Baton Rouge Lakes Master Plan
- Economist: Mental Health Center would save EBR millions
- Analysis: Operating St. George May Require Tax Increases
- Two recommendations for improving public schools
- The Big Idea: Rebranding the I-10/12 Corridor
- Booz Hamilton: Invest in BR, NOLA airports
- Report on Louisiana Healthcare Delivery and Financing System
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Stories
- Q+A with 2023 Rising Star Winner: Levar Robinson
- Q+A with 2023 Barton Award Winner: Maxine Crump
- Q+A with 2023 Kantrow Award Winner: John Spain
- Building Trust: An experiment could juice NBR development
- Northshore Community Foundation offers online counseling post-Ida
- Lakes project, here we go
- Breathing Room
- Wholly, holy
- Civic Leaders: Owners pushing urban trail to link Perkins Road Overpass area
- Local Hero: Lunch with Eric Romero
- The Little Bookseller Who Did
- The Water Institute turns 10
- In gear: BREC’s off-road trails will connect North and South Baton Rouge by mid-decade
- Plucky Gardere Initiative is transforming dangerous neighborhood
- Meet Chris Meyer, the new CEO of the Baton Rouge Area Foundation
- Home is a Lonely Place
- A master plan will guide the preservation of Southwest Louisiana
- The Art of Doctoring
- More than a gym: Under Christian Engle, the Y is going regional and adding services
- District Rx: better mobility
- The New Cyber Frontier
- Building Differently
- Promise Road…Delivered
- Better as one
- Straightened out: a new nonprofit provides orthodontic services to kids in foster care
- The Story of the Old Municipal Dock
- Waze for Water
- 2021 John W. Barton Sr. Excellence in Nonprofit Management Awards
- Shine on: Martin Luther King Jr. monument in Baton Rouge is being restored
- Park to spark
- Big Deal: Dr. Philip Schauer is putting Pennington on the global map
- Crisis stabilization center opens
- New Kids on the Block
- Double Down
- Staging a comeback
- Housing isn’t enough
- Plank Road Progress: Master plan to revive corridor is being implemented
- Green Machine: How data and design are nourishing Baton Rouge Green’s growth across the region
- Justice, not denied – a small Foundation experiment leads to big changes in incarceration fairness
- Three O’Clock Project has scaled up to feed 70,000+ children daily
- More (New) Schools for Baton Rouge
- Pandemic Prophecies: Q&A with LSU’s Sasha Thackaberry
- Business with a Higher Purpose
- Pandemic Prophecies: future of parks
- Pandemic Resource: @HOME Powered by Pennington
- Pandemic Prophecies: 20-minute neighborhoods
- How the BR lakes came to be
- Her beat goes on
- Lakes project shows how Foundation selects civic initiatives
- No 1 in this, too
- Foundation Finances 101
- Neighborhood, radically reimagined
- On a good note
- Q&A: Kinder Baumgardner, Baton Rouge lakes lead planner
- An Interview with the late Ernest J. Gaines from 2007
- A Way Out
- A time to HEAL
- Follow the trail
- The Shape of Water
- BR Bikeshare: Startup Guide
- Health District fights opioid crisis
- Bluebonnet Swamp: A center for warbler research
- Go North
- Meet Chris Csonka
- Conversation with Serena Pandos, new director of Louisiana Art and Science Museum
- Something to prove
- Lanes of their own
- Nonprofit: Line 4 Line
- Jamel Brinkley, Gaines Book Award winner
- A Tale of Two Streets
- Pennington Biomedical’s Next Act
- The G-word
- Foundation’s community in NC includes working farm
- Open table: Building community at White Star Market
- Driven: Matt McKay’s powerful commitment to community
- Boy Scouts project could draw thousands to Atchafalaya
- EBR’s Emerging Warehouse District
- Mid City Studio
- Ladee Hubbard wins 2017 Gaines Award
- Meet Justin Ehrenwerth
- Tout ensemble
- Library’s big chip project
- Mid City redux
- Dr. William Hansel: the venerable scientist
- Louis D. Curet