| 2022 Cycle II | ||||
| Category of Request | Organization Name | Project Name | Grant Amount | Program Description |
| Advocacy | Policy Institute for the Children of Louisiana d/b/a Louisiana Policy Institute for Children | Geaux Far: Uplifting Parents and Providers in Early Childhood Advocacy | $30,000.00 | Geaux Far improves state early childhood systems to better serve vulnerable New Orleans children, prenatal to kindergarten, based on a plan developed by parents and providers. |
| Advocacy | Propeller: A Force for Social Innovation | Propeller Early Childhood Education Support | $50,000.00 | To provide individualized business, administrative, and leadership support for ECE (early childhood education) centers through the Propeller Impact Accelerator. |
| Early childhood grants | Covenant House New Orleans | Perinatal care for young homeless pregnant mothers to improve health and outcomes of unborn baby. | $25,000.00 | Address the negative birth outcomes of homeless pregnant mothers caused by stressors related to trauma, racism, poverty to improve unborn child’s health and life trajectory. |
| Early childhood grants | Kingsley House | Retaining High Quality Talent in Early Learning Classrooms | $50,000.00 | We are seeking support to retain high quality educators in our early childhood classrooms to enable students to develop social-emotional skills through caretaker continuity. |
| School based services | Center for Resilience | Preventing Long-Term Anger and Aggression in Youth (PLAAY) in New Orleans | $40,000.00 | This proposal seeks funding to support comprehensive programming for Preventing Long-Term Anger and Aggression in Youth within in multiple community-based settings. |
| Community based services | Youth Run NOLA | Youth-Centered Community Distance Running Program | $30,000.00 | Youth Run NOLA seeks funding to support our youth community in New Orleans with opportunities to improve their mental health through physical activity. |
| Community based services | New Orleans Youth Alliance | Soul Rebels Series Evaluation and Report | $25,000.00 | NOYA seeks to conduct an evaluation of the Soul Rebels professional development program, focused on trauma-informed strategies for youth, and publish a report of our findings. |
| Community based services | Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights | Early Intervention: Helping Traumatized Children in the Legal System Access Mental Health Care | $25,000.00 | We seek support for our social work team, which screens 500 legal system-involved kids/yr for mental health concerns, helping those in need access appropriate therapeutic care |
| Community based services | unCommon Construction | unCommon Construction Apprenticeship Program Framing Character Initiative | $20,000.00 | In addition to building houses, uCC Apprentices build healthy relationships and 21st century skills through “Framing Character” sessions and wrap-around support. |
| Community based services | Big Class | 826 New Orleans Literacy-Based After School Program | $10,000.00 | With the support of IMH, during the 2022-2023 school year, 30 students in grades 1-5 will receive free, trauma-informed literacy support through 826’s after-school program. |
| Community based services | Yeah! Yoga | Yeah! Yoga: Trauma-Informed Yoga & Meditation Classes for New Orleans Juvenile Justice System Youth | $10,000.00 | YEAH! YOGA seeks to strengthen its trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness classes for vulnerable youth impacted by the juvenile justice system in Greater New Orleans. |
