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New Orleans and the Hollow Prize Problem: Structural Limits on Black Political Power

January 10, 2022

Mayors in the United States often have more influence on the day-to-day activities of residents within their unique jurisdictions thanany other elected office. While each U.S. president holds significant power as Commander-In-Chief, the primary direct interface mostcitizens have with the U.S. Government is either through its taxing function or by receiving some form of financial benefit such as SocialSecurity or Medicaid. Each governor has wide powers in determining state funding priorities for highways, healthcare, and education,but not all citizens rely on these services to the same degree. Mayors, however, have a say in the provision of the services that residents use every single day. This includes water, sewerage, electricity, sanitation, roads, and drainage, to name a few.1

City of New Orleans Racial Equity Toolkit

December 17, 2021

The city we are today has been shaped by our deep and complex 300-year history. From the first arrival of African Slaves to this region in 1718, our Black community has played an intrinsic role in forging the city structurally, economically, and culturally, and we remain the most Afro-centric city in the United States. New Orleanians are no strangers to tragedy, disruption, and sometimes deliberate actions to disadvantage Black residents and all residents of color.Racial injustice and inequality are pressing issues in our city, especially as it relates to how our residents interact with City government. We have a moral and principled obligation to ensure equal opportunity, economic, and social mobility for our residents of color. The path to achieve this requires us to meet our residents where they are by providing equitable services throughout our daily work in each and every department.

Racial Equity and Healing

Fannie Lou Hamer's America

January 3, 2021

Fannie Lou Hamer's America is a new and original documentary film told through the public speeches, personal interviews, and powerful songs of the fearless Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist.If you've ever heard of Fannie Lou Hamer, odds are you were introduced to her through the heart-wrenching testimony she delivered before the 1964 Democratic National Convention's Credentials Committee. As significant as Hamer's 1964 DNC speech was and is, her testimony is but one moment within the activist's career that spanned nearly 15 years and took place before audiences - in every region of the country. One of the movement's pre-eminent orators, Hamer used stories from her own life to call America to account for the racism that defined every aspect of her existence—from the turn-of-the-century cotton plantations of the Mississippi Delta where she was reared, to her death in an all-black hospital in 1977. ***To access this resource please click the Download button (to the right) then via Publisher will show and double-click that button.

New Orleans School Partnership Study: What Our Students Need and How We Can Help

June 1, 2020

We sought to foster educational equity by supporting NOLA-PS's work to raise the achievement of all students while erasing the ways in which their academic outcomes differ based on race, ethnicity, income, disability, and native language. So this report answers a few questions: what are the biggest needs our students face, and how are they being addressed? What can citywide organizations, like nonprofits, do to help schools address them? How will we be able to tell if that support worked?

Farm to Institution New Orleans

January 1, 2020

Farm to Institution New Orleans is a unique and innovative collaboration between Propeller: A Force for Social Innovation, the New Orleans Food Policy Advisory Committee, and the Wallace Center at Winrock International. These organizations designed this project to create a more resilient and equitable local food economy through research, network building, and direct value chain coordination. The Farm to Institution team believes that shifting to a values based food supply chain is an effective method to keep small and mid-size farms in business while supplying New Orleans consumers with high quality, nutritious foods.

Education Toolkit: Knowledge and Tools to Help Parents Advocate for Children

September 7, 2019

Toolkit to help parents effectively advocate for themselves, specifically by connecting their individual needs to the systems that were created to support them & their children.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation Investment In New Orleans

June 11, 2019

In 2008, following the community's recovery from Hurricane Katrina, WKKF increased its support of children and families suffering from high rates of poverty and trauma, naming New Orleans a priority place for its investments. We partner with organizations, governmental entities and communities to transform New Orleans into a child-centered city where children and families can thrive.

Early Childhood Education; Employment Equity; Food Systems; Health Equity; Maternal and Child Health

Interconnections: What Children Need to Thrive, 2018 W.K. Kellogg Foundation Annual Report

February 20, 2019

Explore seven grantee stories, letters from our leaders and a look at our Year in Review – each reaffirming WKKF priorities of thriving children, working families and equitable communities, while highlighting the many levels of dynamic interconnections, essential to lasting change.

City Profile on Racial Equity New Orleans, Louisiana

February 8, 2019

When New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu set out to remove a series of confederate monuments lining the city spaces, it sparked national conversation–and action.But while the story captured the nation's attention, the Mayor and the city's efforts to address racial inequities and begin a process of racial reconciliation in New Orleans were both broader and more comprehensive than removing monuments celebrating the confederacy.

Racial Equity and Healing

The Business Case for Racial Equity: New Orleans and Louisiana

September 19, 2018

The purpose of this report is to highlight the business case for racial equity -- stressing the importance of racial equity as both an imperative for social justice and a strategy for New Orleans' and Louisiana's economic development and growth. As advancing racial equity requires the work of many stakeholders, we hope that the information in this report will be meaningful, useful and actionable for leaders, change agents and influencers within New Orleans' and Louisiana's businesses, communities, and institutions.

Racial Equity and Healing

Gulf Coast Regional Collaborative (GCRC) Year 3 Video

June 1, 2018

Video summarizes previous year's work and documented organizing taking place in Coastal Restoration intersections with Climate and Environment issues.

The New Orleans Prosperity Index: Tricentennial Edition

April 11, 2018

As New Orleans completes her 300th year, the tricentennial is an important moment to reflect on the city's history and achievements. But in addition to celebrating their storied past, New Orleanians are eager to learn from it. Since 2005, when Katrina struck and the levees failed, New Orleanians have worked hard to rebuild their city better than before, preserving that which they treasure, while reforming and strengthening their institutions, and increasing opportunities for prosperity. The tricentennial represents an auspicious occasion for both celebration and reflection.

Racial Equity and Healing

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