June 13, 2024

New Grow Louisiana Coalition Video

Highlights Rebuild South Lafourche

Bayou Community Foundation is honored to be highlighted in a new Grow Louisiana Coalition video featuring our Rebuild South Lafourche Hurricane Ida Housing Recovery Program.

Thanks to the generous support of our industry partners Shell, Chevron, and Danos and MANY other generous donors and community partners, 73-year-old widow Eloise Vizier and 19 other families are moving into new, FORTIFIED Gold homes, bringing hope and stability back into their lives and our South Lafourche and Grand Isle communities.

Rebuild South Lafourche is part of BCF’s larger, two-year Hurricane Ida Housing Recovery Program, which has managed volunteers, casework, and purchased over $7 million in construction materials to repair and construct homes for more than 500 households in Terrebonne Parish, Lafourche Parish, and Grand Isle since January 2022.

Our Rebuild Grand Isle Program

Welcomes Three More Families Home

Thanks to our talented and generous volunteer building partners from Mennonite Disaster Services Storm Aid, Bayou Community Foundation’s Rebuild Grand Isle Housing Recovery Program has completed 6 of 8 new homes built through this summer for under-resourced island residents who lost everything in Hurricane Ida.

These storm-tough, FORTIFIED Gold houses provide safe, secure homes for long-time residents and also strengthen the resiliency of the Grand Isle community.

In addition to the new construction, Rebuild Grand Isle has completed 40 home repairs with the help of our volunteers from Nomads Mission Volunteers, MDS RV Group and CARE, providing safe and sanitary homes for many more island families.

BCF Offers Bayou Region Nonprofit's

Learning and Networking Opportunities

Looking to Strengthen Your Volunteer Program?

Join us for an insightful workshop on Volunteer Management, hosted by the Bayou Community Foundation and conducted by Lori Pilley, Director of Volunteer Services with Volunteer Louisiana, an Office of the Lt. Governor.

While this workshop is FREE, registration is required.

2024 Bayou Region Nonprofit Conference

Early Bird Registration NOW Open!

Bayou Community Foundation invites area nonprofit professionals, Board members and volunteers to join us for our 2024 Bayou Region Nonprofit Conference on Thursday, August 8 from 8:00 am – 3:00 pm at Fletcher Technical Community College.

For more information or to Register, visit BayouConference.org

or contact Community Impact Officer Kati Callas at Kati@BayouCF.org

BCF Releases Community Needs Assessment

Mental Health Care,

Hunger and Housing are identified as the most critical needs in Lafourche, Terrebonne and Grand Isle.

Bayou Community Foundation is strategically working with donors and community partners to fill these and other critical needs through grants to nonprofits, advocacy and our new Working Groups on Behavioral Health and Hunger.

GROWING GOOD

in Lafourche, Terrebonne and Grand Isle

From Hunger to Housing:

WDSU News 6 Features Bayou Community Foundation

WDSU News anchor Morgan Lentes interviewed Bayou Community Foundation Executive Director Jennifer Armand on the recent release of BCF's Community Needs Assessment and the challenges facing the Bayou Region.

Mother Teresa Women's Giving Circle Grants $38,000 to Support Rebuild South Lafourche

BCF is so grateful and delighted to have received a $38,000 grant from the Catholic Foundation of South Louisiana as part of the Mother Teresa Women's Giving Circle to support Rebuild South Lafourche.

This grant will fund the purchase of furniture, bedding, towels, pots, pans, dishes, appliances and more to help 12 families we are serving make their new or repaired house a home.

MDS and CARE Volunteers Enjoy Some Cajun Hospitality

Dufrene Building Materials and BCF President Henry Lafont and his wife Kim generously showed our amazing Mennonite Disaster Service Storm Aid and CARE volunteers some extra-special Southern hospitality and prepared delicious home-cooked Cajun meals for our friends from the north before the volunteer rebuilding groups journeyed back home to Pennsylvania.

These amazing volunteers left their homes and families and traveled over 1,200 miles to help us provide hundreds of families a home again through our Rebuild South Lafourche, Rebuild Grand Isle and Rebuild Dulac programs since January 2022.

Good Grows Here

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