Featured Grantee: Split Second Foundation
The Split Second Foundation is a New Orleans-based 501(c)(3) organization committed to breaking physical, societal and research barriers for people living with disabilities. Split Second provides tools for recovery through ongoing fitness, education, mental health support, resource navigation, case management, vocational support, and community partnerships. Our programs empower individuals who live with disabling conditions such as a spinal cord injury, brain injury, stroke, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, amputation, visual impairment, and other neurological conditions.
MHSF Grantees
The 18th Ward Sports Club was created to increase youth access to sports by eliminating barriers to participation. Working with youth from ages 3-24, everyone is welcome to play regardless of gender, race, income or neighborhood.
Bastion Community of Resilience
Bastion is an intentional community in which wounded, ill, or injured veterans live alongside retired military and civilian volunteers. Every Bastion resident benefits from the experience of helping others, and this, in turn, promotes wellbeing and life satisfaction.
Bayou District Foundation (BDF) is the community quarterback organization for a group of strategic partners redeveloping and revitalizing New Orleans’ Bayou District in Gentilly. BDF has created a new mixed-income community complete with schools, recreation and support services on the site of the former St. Bernard public housing development, the surrounding Gentilly neighborhood, and adjacent City Park.
Children's Hospital of New Orleans
Greater New Orleans Immunization Network – The Greater New Orleans Immunization Network (GNOIN) was created in April 1998 when Christian Health Ministries partnered with several area hospitals to implement an immunization program for the children of Metropolitan New Orleans.
Trauma and Grief Center – The Trauma and Grief Center (TAG) was started by licensed clinical psychologist Dr. Julie Kaplow at Children’s Hospital of New Orleans in 2021 to address a large and growing need for trauma services offered on an outpatient basis to children 0-18.
Communities in Schools of the Gulf South, Inc.
Communities In Schools of the Gulf South provides Integrated Student Supports (ISS) to children and families in need across Orleans and Jefferson Parishes.
Covenant House New Orleans provides the community's only open-access youth shelter, serving unhoused youth ages 16-22 (including pregnant and parenting youth and their children) with equitable, trauma-informed care and wrap around services to support their transition from their traumatic childhoods into healing and self-sufficient adulthood.
CrescentCare is a Federally Qualified Health Center offering an expanded range of health and wellness services for anyone and everyone who is seeking healthcare services in Greater New Orleans and Southeastern Louisiana.
Dillard University, Louisiana's oldest historically Black university, is a private four-year liberal arts faith-based university.
The Good Shephard School seeks to help low-income, urban youth realize their fullest potential as productive members of society by providing them with an extended day, year-round, quality education, integrated with personal, moral and spiritual development.
Health & Education Alliance of Louisiana
The Health & Education Alliance’s (HEAL) mission is to eliminate the health and educational disparities for children who live in poverty in Louisiana. HEAL works directly with students, families, and schools to ensure students are healthy and academically successful.
Hotel Hope moves families from homelessness to self-sufficiency through a three-stage service model that involves providing crisis intervention services, residential stability and help in achieving economic self-sufficiency.
LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing
The LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing prepares professional nurse leaders that function as generalists, advanced practice nurses, educators, scholars, and researchers to transform nursing and health care.
Luke's House is a place of medical and spiritual hope, health, and healing for the people of greater New Orleans. It provides free medical care through volunteer medical providers to the most vulnerable members of the community.
Marillac Community Health Centers
Doing business as DePaul Community Health Centers, the Marillac Community Health Centers provide health care services, counseling and educational assistance to men, women and children in the New Orleans area.
The New Orleans Mission is a Christian Humanitarian Organization dedicated to the rescue, recovery, and re-engagement of people facing homelessness, addiction, human trafficking, abuse, or mental illness. The New Orleans Mission serves all people, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity or gender.
Second Harvest Food Bank leads the fight against hunger in South Louisiana by providing food access, advocacy, education and disaster response. Second Harvest provides food and support to 700+ community partners and programs across 23 parishes.
Son of a Saint exists to transform the lives of fatherless boys through mentorship, emotional support, development of life skills, exposure to constructive experiences and formation of positive, lasting peer-to-peer relationships.
Southeastern Louisiana University Foundation
Southeastern Louisiana University Foundation serves as a catalyst to transform lives by uniting generosity and vision, one relationship at a time. Its purpose is to stand as a constant partner to Southeastern that focuses its efforts on harnessing the value from strong external relationships in order to bring greater support and funding for the advancement of the University. The University recently launched a graduate program in Population Health Management to support a dynamic healthcare industry.
The Split Second Foundation is committed to breaking physical, societal, and research barriers for people living with disabilities. We strive to create programs that will tear down these barriers and improve lives.
St. Thomas Community Health Center
St. Thomas Community Health Center is a Federally Qualified Health Center that provides healthcare to economically and medically vulnerable populations regardless of the patient’s ability to pay or insurance status.
Start Corporation (Start) has more than 40 years’ experience providing housing, healthcare, and supportive services. Through the acquisition of St Jude Community Center in New Orleans near the French Quarter, Start aims to combine programs together to form a housing collaborative that will serve some of the most vulnerable population.
The University of Holy Cross, a Catholic institution of higher learning, is an inclusive student-centered learning community focused on academic excellence and innovative teaching.
University of New Orleans Foundation
The University of New Orleans Foundation supports the University of New Orleans and is focused on the key areas of financial and investment management, endowment management, gift receipt and acknowledgements, program support and property management.
Via Link provides counseling to those in crisis, helps people connect with critical services, provides suicide intervention, offers opioid counseling and more. Services are provided over phone, text and online chat services 24/7, 365 days a year.
Volunteers of America Southeast Louisiana
Volunteers of America Southeast Louisiana is a health and human services agency working to build healthy communities for all people. It encourages positive development: providing services to promote healthy development of children and families through a continuum of services including mentoring, workforce development, and trauma-informed care. It also provides services for people with disabilities, older adults, and people experiencing homelessness.
Xavier University of Louisiana, founded by Saint Katharine Drexel and the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, is Catholic and historically Black. The ultimate purpose of the University is to contribute to the promotion of a more just and humane society by preparing its students to assume roles of leadership and service in a global society.
Youth Empowerment Program (YEP) provides mentoring and youth advocacy, adult education and high school equivalency preparation, employment readines, career exploration and out-of-school time enrichment programming. As a community-based nonprofit, these programs have been developed in response to unmet community needs and are aligned with YEP’s core purpose, which is to empower young people to improve their lives and the lives of others.