The Nola Files
The Nola FilesDoing Good - Featuring the great organizations we have had the pleasure to work with, those of us helping New Orleans tackle it's many issues / Curious Tourist - Some common questions about the city we hear from visitors / Interviews - Our chance to talk to interesting follks in hte community / The Index - This is a rolling A-Z of topics that have shaped the city / The Dirt - Our own ramblings, experiences and opinions
Habitat for Humanity of the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Habitat MS Gulf Coast was founded in 2007 when Harrison County Habitat and Habitat of Jackson County merged to better serve their community. Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Mississippi Gulf C...
Protect and Restore. Woodlands Conservancy protects and restores forested wetlands that serve as a natural sponge to absorb storm water and provide a wind buffer to protect the surrounding communi...
Protect. Preserve. Perpetuate. Preservation Hall was established by Allen and Sandra Jaffe in 1961 as a performance space supporting traditional jazz and the perpetuation of the rich African-Ame...
What our society leaves behind, we pick up. Humans have known that caring for the Earth is fundamental in caring for ourselves. However, in modern times we have become more distracted, and the wea...
Fostering a sense of wonder. This organization is one of our partners at ScreensforGood.com. LOOP NOLA is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide positive, life-changing outdoor exper...
Do Good & Give Back The Better Than Ezra Foundation story starts with the band itself. The talented and accomplished members - Kevin Griffin, Tom Drummond and drummers Travis McNabb and Michael...
Building Leaders. On her first day with her team, Destinee built and stood all the walls to a house. If she made a mistake, she learned how to fix it. Building a house gave her the kind of grit an...
String Instruction. Make Music NOLA (MMN) is an intensive music-for-social-change program. Every day, they keep at-risk youth ages 6-16 off the streets during a crucial time and engaged in a positi...
That classic New Orleans dish, Red Beans and Rice, has inspired its very own parade. Come Lundi Gras you can expect to see thousands upon millions of red beans hot glued in tight, mesmerizing patte...
Critical Thinking. Cypress Academy is a school that is intentional about education. They combine academics and social and emotional development in a learning community that encourages critical thi...
Writing the mission. In 2013, after the tragic Mother’s Day shooting in New Orleans, some of the Goat in the Road student playwrights who lived in the area wrote plays that dealt implicitly with ...
For a fair and just New Orleans. In the wake of a full criminal justice system failure following Hurricane Katrina, public defense was restructured and reformed to provide constitutional and meani...
Here we share things we find interesting about New Orleans and the Gulf South, organizations and people that deserve more attention and answer some questions about the area.
