What NOCHI MeansMeet our students, instructors, and founders as they share what NOCHI means to them and how our community came together around it.
FIRST DAY SMILES AT GOOD SHEPHERD SCHOOLSmiles everywhere as a dream is realized. The excitement of the students during their first day at the new Good Shepherd School on Agriculture Street in New Orleans.
First Day Smiles by Tom Gregory
CrescentCare: A New Day for NO/AIDS – New Orleans FQHCFor more information about Sage Growth Partners: http://sage-growth.com/index.php/key-markets/fqhc-performance-and-growth-services/
In the summer of 2014 Crescent Care celebrated the opening of its first Family Care Center, marking a rebirth of one of New Orleans’ most respected service organizations, the NO/AIDS Task Force.
The transition might not have succeeded without the guidance of Sage Growth Partners. The term AIDS had barely into the nation's vocabulary when NO/AIDS began providing essential care.
NO/AIDS Task Force is a community-based HIV AIDS service organization. It started thirty years ago a group of men and women saw the need to come together and do something about men that were are getting sick on to the hospital I many not returning home.
In a city with a critical need for its services, the agency grew along with the demand. But the AIDS epidemic started to ebb in the 1990s, just as community health centers for becoming more popular. Doubts were raised about the viability of a single-issue organization.
The concern was that with so much, so many resources going to community health centers that it might be likely that we would see fewer resources earmarked for HIV services.
Thousands depended on care that only NO/AIDS offered and that care was in jeopardy.
So we started thinking about the possibilities of partnering with community health centers or becoming one as an organization. It was a difficult decision to even think about moving or expanding services beyond HIV.
One of the biggest issues for NO/AIDS, especially for the Board, because we have been in the community thirty years, was to not lose sight of our mission and who we have supported all these years and who has supported us.
The board struggled with the issue for a number of years then August 2005 happened.
NO/AIDS depended on government grants. That aid had been reliable in the past and now there was a greater need
and the funding disappeared.
Americana YMCA Virtual Tour
ExxonMobil YMCA Virtual Tour
Belle Chasse YMCA Gymnasium Expansion Project!The Belle Chasse YMCA is ready to grow with our community! We are committed to providing our community with accessible, affordable, family-oriented facilities so that people of all ages, incomes, backgrounds and abilities have the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive.
This expansion plan positions the YMCA as an even stronger community partner and increases our ability to address critical health issues, social challenges and unmet needs in our community. We will approach the expansion in three phases with the support of the community.
Reinvestment Fund: Pythian Building, New OrleansThe Pythian Building is a historically important, vacant 10-story building in the downtown business district of New Orleans. Reinvestment Fund financing helped Green Coast Enterprises convert the building into workforce affordable housing units, combined with 20,000 square feet of retail space, and 16,000 square feet of office space.
The project is receiving New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) allocations in support of the development. Reinvestment Fund is providing NMTC allocations and loans to bridge state and federal historic tax credit equity. National Trust Community Investment Corporation is providing the remaining NMTC allocations and US Bank is the equity investor. Stonehenge Capital and Iberia Bank are also financing partners in this project.
