| ORGANIZATION |
INITIATIVE |
PURPOSE |
YEARS |
AMOUNT |
| AARP Tax Aide Program |
Mini-Grant |
Electronic Filing equipment for use by volunteer tax preparers in service to the elderly |
1 |
$24,000 |
| Alexandria Affordable Housing Corp |
Mini-Grant |
Perform repairs on homes of low-income elderly homeowners |
1 |
20,000 |
| Alexandria Fire Department |
Mini-Grant |
Purchase handicapped accessible Fire Safety Exhibit |
1 |
25,000 |
| Allen Parish Police Jury |
Mini-Grant |
Medical equipment for Oberlin and Oakdale Health Units |
1 |
18,565 |
| Alzheimer's Association Cenla Branch |
Mini-Grant |
Training safety workers, clergy and senior centers to identify and assist persons with Alzheimer's |
1 |
17,580 |
| American Heart Association |
Healthy Futures I |
Implementation of teen-led anti-smoking programs |
2.5 |
45,000 |
| Arna Bontemps Museum and Cultural Arts Center |
Mini-Grant |
Technology upgrade |
1 |
10,000 |
| Avoyelles Society for the Developmentally Disabled |
Responsive Cycle |
Partial funding of expansion of their Center in Marksville. The Center provides supportive employment for developmentally disabled adults |
2 |
100,000 |
| Ballet Alexandria |
Mini-Grant |
Support of Francofete performances |
1 |
9,800 |
| Blue Ribbon Task Force on Education |
Mini-Grant |
Support of working groups |
1 |
12,500 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Central LA |
Healthy Children |
Implementation of a Family Support program in collaboration with 8 area Housing Authorities |
5 |
215,000 |
| Bunkie Community Development Corp. |
Technical Assistance |
Organizational development and planning |
1 |
10,000 |
| Caring Peoples Free Pharmacy |
Healthcare Access |
Distribution of medications to the medically indigent |
3 |
128,240 |
| Catahoula Parish School District |
Healthy Futures I |
Implementation of a school-based risk-reduction (Adolescent Risk Curriculum Reduction) |
5 |
250,000 |
| Cenla Area Agency on Aging |
Healthy Seniors |
Development of cost-effective senior wellness programming for implementation throughout Cenla |
2 |
50,000 |
| Cenla Pride |
Mini-Grant |
Work with Alexandria neighborhoods to organize and build resident involvement |
1 |
6,000 |
| Central Louisiana Coalition to Prevent Homelessness |
Responsive Cycle |
Development of evaluation tools for the Phoenix Point transitional housing project |
1 |
26,391 |
| Central Louisiana Community Theatre |
Mini-Grant |
Installation of audience services technology |
1 |
5,000 |
| Central Louisiana Foundation |
Technical Assistance |
Development of implementation plan for diversity programming |
1 |
10,000 |
| Central Louisiana Foundation |
Mini-Grant |
Feasibility study of LSUA 4 year expansion |
1 |
25,000 |
| Children's Museum Task Force |
Mini-Grant |
Preliminary planning efforts towards developing a children's museum |
1 |
4,108 |
| Extra Mile, Region VI |
Mini-Grant |
Strategic planning for the organization |
1 |
20,950 |
| Family Playhouse |
Mini-Grant |
Rental and rehab of performance space |
1 |
25,000 |
| Governor's Office of Women's Services |
Mini-Grant |
Development of job training in non-traditional jobs |
1 |
9,800 |
| HNB/LSUA Leadership Training Partnership |
Mini-Grant |
Leadership training for managers of not-for-profit organizations |
1 |
12,000 |
| Hope Development Center |
Mini-Grant |
Renovation of space for Welfare-to-Work Programs |
1 |
10,000 |
| Junior League of Alexandria |
Mini-Grant |
Implementation of a program of non-violence training in Alexandria sixth grade classrooms |
1 |
12,000 |
| LaSalle Community Action Association |
Mini-Grant |
Renovation of recreational and tutoring space at HeadStart campus in Clayton |
1 |
25,000 |
| Leesville Development Center |
Mini-Grant |
Planning activities to facilitate client movement from sheltered workshops to community employment |
1 |
14,750 |
| Legal Services of Central Louisiana |
Mini-Grant |
Technology Upgrade for client services |
1 |
10,000 |
| Louisiana Special Education Center |
Mini-Grant |
Total Quality Management training for employees |
1 |
9,000 |
| LSUA Library |
Mini-Grant |
Local History Preservation Project |
1 |
15,000 |
| Mt. Zion Development Corporation |
Responsive Cycle |
Partial support for the renovation of the Madrid Apartments in Alexandria for use as an affordable senior citizens housing complex |
1 |
100,000 |
| Natchitoches Council on Aging |
Healthy Seniors |
Partial funding for expansion of senior center |
1 |
70,000 |
| Ninth Judicial District Court |
Mini-Grant |
Educational programming for juveniles under court supervision |
1 |
2,500 |
| Northwestern State University |
Technical Assistance |
Develop community collaboratives on teen pregnancy prevention |
1 |
6,888 |
| Nu Tau Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau |
Mini-Grant |
Workshop on better integrating professional nursing into the community |
1 |
3,500 |
| Oakdale, City of |
Mini-Grant |
Upgrades to Civic Center sound system and lighting |
1 |
23,000 |
| Pediatric Therapy Center |
Healthy Children |
Early identification of children at-risk for developmental disabilities through a program of provider education and training |
3 |
75,000 |
| Prevent Child Abuse Louisiana |
Healthy Children |
A project to provide trained mentors and extensive in-home parenting support for post-partum mothers. In collaboration with Steps to Success and Volunteers of America |
5 |
500,000 |
| Rapides Exploratory Education |
Mini-Grant |
Feasibility study for Children's museum |
1 |
25,000 |
| Rapides Habitat for Humanity |
Responsive Cycle |
Salary support for a construction supervisor for affordable housing work in Rapides Parish |
3 |
90,051 |
| Resident Councils of the Natchitoches City Housing Authority |
Technical Assistance |
Organizational development work for resident Councils |
1 |
20,000 |
| Resident Councils of the Rapides Parish Housing Authority |
Mini-Grant |
Organizational development work for resident councils in Boyce and Woodworth |
1 |
10,000 |
| River Oaks Square Arts Center |
Mini-Grant |
Visiting artist workshops at 12 area schools |
1 |
4,240 |
| St. Augustine Historical Society |
Mini-Grant |
Development of photographic database on Creole history |
1 |
16,325 |
| Shepherd Ministries |
Mini-Grant |
Development of strategic plan |
1 |
25,000 |
| Southern University and A&M College |
Healthy Futures II |
Implementation of model teen pregnancy prevention (Pregnancy Prevention) programs in Bunkie and Ville Platte |
5 |
250,000 |
| Southwest Louisiana Area Health Education Center |
Healthy Seniors |
Development and implementation of a Prevention Education Resource Network targeted to prevent chronic illness in Allen Parish seniors |
5 |
354,557 |
| Tom Peyton Memorial Arts Festival |
Mini-Grant |
Support of arts festival featuring Louisiana culture |
1 |
2,500 |
| United Way of Central Louisiana |
Mini-Grant |
Fiscal agent for Cenla Health Fair |
1 |
4,000 |
| Volunteers of America |
Mini-Grant |
Feasibility study for hospice for homeless and mentally ill |
1 |
5,000 |
| Volunteers of America |
Healthcare Access |
Enhanced Medicaid application access in Jena, Leesville and Alexandria |
5 |
131,250 |
| Winnfield Kindergarten Annex |
Healthy Children |
Implementation of a nurse-led risk-identification program targeting 3 and 4 year-olds |
1 |
53,500 |
| Working Peoples Free Clinic |
Healthcare Access |
Operation of a volunteer-based healthcare clinic for the medically indigent and purchase of a site for the project |
1.5 |
300,000 |
| Young's Temple Church of God in Christ |
Technical Assistance |
Planning for implementation of a volunteer nurse-led visitation program targeted towards low-income elderly |
1 |
10,000 |
