In an effort to foster relationships and cooperation amongst our grantees and expand on Second Harvest Food Bank’s reach throughout the state, the Foundation brokered deals with five community foundations to create partnerships with Second Harvest! Through the use of Designated Fund agreements, these five year partnerships will surely help alleviate human suffering.

Support for Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center is at $1,981,403 dollars in research and development for a Novel Fluoride Releasing Dental Composite Resin and the Fabricaition of Ross Lined Polymar Nanofibers! The research under this grant spanned 14 years and has recently successfully concluded.

Grants to the Louisiana Lighthouse have reached a total of $438,008 going back to 1990. The Foundation is very proud of this partnership with a group that:

Since 2006, $450,000 in support has been awarded to the New Orleans Medical Mission Services. Their stated goal: “to bring free medical treatment, consultation, education, equipment and supplies to needy people in foreign countries. We are volunteers, non-profit and dedicated to improving health while supporting human dignity.”

As an avid animal lover, Dorothy Dorsett Brown initiated the first SPCA building in New Orleans, on Japonica Street. During construction, she housed the animals at her own farm in Braithwaite, Louisiana. Mrs. Brown’s dream was to see a newer and larger facility built, so after Katrina and with her vision in mind, the Foundation partnered with the SPCA to construct the Mardi Gras Blvd location. Contributions to the Louisiana SPCA have totaled $2,776,270.

The Foundation issued a grant to Harch Hyperbaric Institute in 2017 for groundbreaking work in oxygen theraphy. Thanks in part to this research support funding, Dr. Harch was involved in what is being referred to as a miracle cure for a little girl who had drowned. Please see our newsfeed section for more information on how Dr. Harch saved this girls life.

The Foundation proudly supports various law enforcement agencies and partners with law enforcement agencies for the betterment of humanity. We have proudly supported the Louisiana State Troopers and state sheriff associations since 2012 and made our most recent gift to them in March 12, 2018.

Nearly $200,000 in grants have been awarded to the Jewish Family Service of Greater New Orleans. This proud partnership has existed since the 1990s and underwrites their Teen Life Counts, a school-based suicide prevention program serving middle and high school students in the GNO area at no cost.

The Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation support for the National WWII Museum commenced in the late 1990s. We were one of the first groups to fund this museum to ensure it would be located in New Orleans. The Museum opened on the 56th anniversary of D Day, June 6, 2000. Under the leadership of our current President Emeritus, a WWII Veteran, D.P. Spencer and the board of trustees, the Foundation went on to pledge support for the Special Exhibit Gallery in Discovery Hall ... an Oral History project ... the Into the German Heartland, End of War exhibit in the Campaigns Pavilion ... the Loyal Forces: The Animals of WWII that was featured in the Special Exhibits Gallery in 2010 ... and the Searching for International Justice and Order and Services Exhibit in the U.S. Freedom Pavilion. This is one of our most proud partnerships. D.P. Spencer will speak to visitors at various points on their trek through the museum via previously recorded videos.

One of the oldest partners of the Foundation, the Audubon Nature Institute, has hosted thousands of student participants in the Foundation’s Service Learning Program. Further, the Foundation has partnered with the Audubon Nature Institute to make the Butterfly Garden and Insectarium a reality in New Orleans. More than a half dozen other novel projects and grants come to a total of $1,658,250 to the Audubon Nature Institute during our long standing and very proud partnership.

In honor of the Greatest Generation and in proud partnership with Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation: The Joe W. and Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation sponsored 400 low income seniors to visit the 2017 WWII Air, Sea and Land Festival!

Chairman of the Board, David B. Spencer, visited WRBH Radio for the Blind and Print Handicapped in December 2017. He is pictured above with Natalia Gonzales, Executive Director of the radio station. Visit www.wrbh.org to learn more about this worthy, volunteer-driven cause, whose mission: turn the printed word into the spoken word so that the blind and print handicapped can receive the same ease of access to current information as their sighted peers.

The Foundation is a long time supporter of DePaul USA and we agree that “Homelessness Has No Place”. The Foundation’s most recent grant to DePaul USA has resulted in 60 people exiting homelessness in New Orleans.

LaPREP and Its Associated Programs of LSU Shreveport received fall 2017 and spring and summer 2018 support from the Brown Foundation to help underwrite the enrichment programming for high ability elementary and high school students. Contributions to date have topped $300,000.

Compassionate Burials for Indigent Babies (CBIB, Inc.) has been supported by us since 2015 and recently received a full approval in general support providing "dignified burials for abandoned or indigent babies" and for raising awareness of the Safe Haven Law.

The Whistle Stop provides supervised visitation for families referred by Family Court which can include foster care children and high conflict divorce and custody cases. In 2018, the Brown Foundation will supplement 375 hours of supervised visits for non-custodial parents with their children!

The Brown Foundation proudly supports the efforts of Junior Achievement of Greater New Orleans. While striving to inspire and prepare young people to successfully participate in our economy through workforce development, entrepreneurship and financial literacy, this group has received over $400,000 in approvals from the Foundation over a two decade period.

The Brown Foundation is proud to have supported both the Girl Scouts and the Boy Scouts an aggregate amount of $1,454,015 over the years.

The Foundation has proudly awarded $1,209,630 in grants to Bridge House / Grace House. “If it is hard for you to watch someone suffering from addiction, imagine how miserable it must be to live with addiction. Bridge House / Grace House serve a vital role in relieving human suffering and it is our privilege to support their programs” - Ronald Spencer, MD, Brown Foundation Healthcare Program Officer and Trustee.

For the past several years the Foundation has committed hundreds of thousands of dollars to help Holy Cross create and establish a food science degree program. In September of 2017, the Foundation renewed its commitment to Holy Cross’s food science program and will now assist with the development of the beverage science concentration program.

Support for the Atchafalaya Terrebonne Basin is and always has been of crucial importance to the Brown Foundation. The Brown Foundation has proudly awarded grants totaling $220,000 to the Atchafalaya Basinkeeper. Special thanks to @johnchittyimages for the stunning photograph.

We wish to recognize Patricia Gay who recently retired from the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans and applaud her relentless efforts and achievements in preserving the past for our present and future. Foundation contributions to PRCNO: $1,450,000

Second Harvest Food Bank and the Brown Foundation have partnered in the relief of human suffering for many years. Our support for the relentless efforts of Second Harvest have recently eclipsed $1.3 million. Their mission - ending hunger in the Gulf Coast states by providing food access & disaster response – should be admired by all.

Joe W. Brown identified polio as “the greatest plague of our time” and worked tirelessly to help distribute the vaccine. In the decades that followed, Dorothy Dorsett repeatedly hailed Jonas Edward Salk as a “hero, champion, and miracle worker” and credited him with “saving humanity by solving polio”. Over the past several decades, the Foundation has proudly supported the SALK Institute for Biological Studies’ research initiatives in the amount of $2,573,140.

One of Dorothy Dorsett Brown’s favorite charities: The Foundation is proud to have given over $1 million in grants to the Salvation Army in honor of her.

Executive Director, Jim Kelly (left) graciously received our Board Chair, David Spencer (right) for a tour and meeting at Covenant House. Foundation contributions: $540,000

The Foundation introduced service learning to Louisiana. Through our Service Learning Program we have proudly contributed $6,195,922 to our community in Louisiana and Mississippi. Contact our program managers - Tina Bouzon and Jonathan Baynham - for more information.

Our President, E.F. Hunter III speaking at the Annual Service Learning Event, held at the Ponchartrain Center 9/12/2017.

The Foundation is proud to have supported Camp Bon Coeur for children with heart disease in the amount of $350,000 since 1999. The program officers of the Foundation enjoyed their recent summer site visit.

Our partners at The Nature Conservancy have been champions of our environment for decades. Grants totaling $1.6 million have also been awarded to The Nature Conservancy for their environmental efforts.

The Foundation has given $2.9 million to Tulane University and its affiliated programs over the past two decades. Most recently, we are proud to announce support for The Tulane Cancer Center’s Belancio Laboratory. Victoria Belancio, Ph.D. will work with Emmy Noether Scholars for one year, and teach them how to use bioinformatic tools to analyze human genome sequencing data. Pictured above is Dr. Belancio (left) with Madison Smither (right) at the 2017 Emmy Noether Award Inaugural Event. Dr. Belancio and Madison wrote the grant for the Tulane Cancer Center and were approved in full!

2017 Emmy Noether Award Scholars

Since 2008, the Foundation has contributed $336,500 to Victories In Services, an organization addressing student motivation in the upper-ninth ward by creating an environment where students can experience success and learn skills needed to increase motivation to learn.

The Foundation is proud to announce a large research grant has been issued to UNO Department of Biological Sciences for the Howard Laboratory; two STEM projects approved to Delgado that will send a team to compete in iGEM in Boston, and a new partnership with Tulane Medical School to reduce the backlog of autism diagnosis in New Orleans from 180 to 30 over a two year period.

E.F. Hunter, President, signing a $900,000 PRI grant in favor of local New Orleans homeless shelter.

The Foundation partnered with The Nature Conservancy and St. Paul’s Episcopal School to build an osprey nesting platform adjacent to our building. Now we await the great birds to occupy the habitat!

Since June 2016, an osprey has been regularly seen on the Brown Foundation’s building light fixtures.

2017 Emmy Noether Award Winner, Hailey Rowbatham

E.F. Hunter, our President, with Madison Smither and Illaria Simeone, working on the Emmy Noether Award.

Did you know the Toys for Tots program, founded by the United States Marine Corps, is supported by law enforcement agencies across the United States including the LCPD who we have supported in their fundraising efforts for three years and counting?