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The Greater New Orleans Foundation’s Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund - your local philanthropic partner

Sheville Staff

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Proceeds from the Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund will support work that helps the communities most affected by the oil spill in Plaquemines, St. Bernard, and lower Jefferson Parishes. The long-term recovery efforts of the Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund are to help strengthen coastal communities against future environmental catastrophes such as BP’s Horizon oil spill which occurred on April 20, 2010.
You may also make a donation by sending your check to:
Greater New Orleans Foundation 1055 St. Charles Ave, Ste 100 New Orleans, LA 70130

Please make your check payable to GNOF and write “Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund” on the memo line.

As we learned with the Valdez oil spill in Alaska in 1989, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill will have both short- and long-term consequences. The spill will have its most direct effects on the Louisiana coastline and its fragile ecosystems. It will impact the livelihoods of fishermen and their families, as well those who depend on the fishing and tourism industries. The environmental effects will linger for many years.

In response to the recent disaster, the Foundation is opening the Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund. If you would like to learn more about the Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund, please call Josephine Everly at (504)598-4663 or josephine@gnof.org.

The Greater New Orleans Foundation’s Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund is your local philanthropic partner. With the Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund, the Greater New Orleans Foundation will serve as a conduit between the donor community and our nonprofit partners. We will fund philanthropic dollars back into the effected communities on a short and long-term bases.

Short-term: The fund will make emergency grants to nonprofit organizations helping the victims of the oil spill.

Long-term: The fund will help address the long-term economic, environmental, cultural effects of the disaster, and strengthen coastal communities against future environmental catastrophes by investing in solutions.

Volunteerism
While the greater New Orleans Foundation does not provide volunteer opportunities to assist in the oil spill cleanup, there are oil spill-related opportunities emerging in the New Orleans region. Please visit the HandsOn New Orleans site for information on these opportunities. As often happens in a disaster, donors turn to the local community foundation because of its intimate knowledge of the local nonprofit community. The Greater New Orleans Foundation, the largest and oldest philanthropic community foundation in the region, established the Rebuild New Orleans Fund shortly after Hurricane Katrina. National foundations, corporations, families and individuals contributed millions to this fund to help with rebuilding efforts.