They provide short-term assistance and promote life-skills. They assist with the following: food, furniture, electricity, infant needs, clothing, household items, transportation, bus tickets, gasoline, rent, and other necessities.

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. Their staff and volunteers distribute the equivalent of more than 32 million meals to 210,000+ people a year. 

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. Our staff and volunteers distribute the equivalent of more than 32 million meals to 210,000+ people a year. 

Providing a place of peace, support, and encouragement to the working poor and homeless, in downtown New Orleans, as they rebuild their lives. They support people with food assistance, grocery assistance, case management, employment, mail, prescriptions, and obtaining an ID.

Established in the heart of New Orleans in 1969 FFL has aided the homeless, underprivileged, and disaster victims for over 40 years.

The Women’s Center of New Orleans University is a place of community and opportunity, offering a range of scholarships for registered female students.

Newcomb Children’s Center is located on Tulane’s uptown campus and offers programs for children twelve months to five years of age.

They focus on whole-child learning that engages children with the material and stimulates their developing minds. They have outdoor learning areas and a unique rooftop playground to encourage social and physical growth, and a lending library to spark an early love of reading. Your child can learn science concepts by discovering how things grow in the gardens, and then harvest

Their mission is to connect children in foster care to the families, individuals, and opportunities they need to thrive. They recruit new foster families from local churches, develop them into competent caregivers for kids from hard places through training in TBRI®, and support them through the ups and downs of their journey as foster parents.

To support all families in accessing high quality child care, the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) provides financial assistance to low-income families while they are working or attending school.