Did you know? The  first community land trust ,  New Communities  was created in 1969 to support black farmers. Socially disadvantaged...

BATON ROUGE, LA – Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome, East Baton Rouge Parish School System, and OneRouge CAFÉ announced a free summer...

May is a time for so many things – none more important than  Mothers’ Day and Mental Health Awareness !  Mothers’ Day is an ...

Jiminy Cricket - we are speeding to the end of the school year!  Prom  Season is over.  LEAP  testing is underway.  Last  day of school...

Autism  is not just one thing, one condition, or one set of behaviors. It is challenges with social skills, repetitive behaviors, speech...

It seems like only yesterday that the CAFÉ coalition was jolted into action by the possibility that there would not be a summer EBT...

In the ancient history I call my youth, I would sneak into clubs in The City and dance to artists like  MC Hammer ,  When in Rome , and ...

A wise man once said to me “we all we got!” That is never more true than when we look to the health of our community. Whether it is...

The COVID-19 pandemic has cast a stark spotlight on the challenges faced by mom and pop shops. These small, independent businesses, often...

Did you know that 2024 has seen some pretty amazing advances for women in Louisiana? The first woman took office as  Attorney General The...

Here we are in the year of Da'Vine Joy Randolf's 1st Oscar and 51 wins for her roll in Holdovers and women STILL make pittance compared...

Coalition Meeting Notes In-person at River Center Branch Library 2/22/2024 Topic: Understanding CATS Work in Baton Rouge Click here for...

Coalition Meeting Notes In-person at River Center Branch Library 2/21/2024 Topic: Working Groups to review goals, set milestones, and...

Building from the January monthly meeting, the E2C Coalition in-person convening on February 20th reviewed the collectively determined...

Since March 2020 during the Covid outbreak a rotating group of 400+ community leaders from the business, municipal, and nonprofit sectors...

Stereotypes are a hard thing to surpass. Think lazy and shiftless to a brute who cannot be trusted around decent, respectable women or...

Housing inequality  and  predatory lending  under the guise of equity are nothing new. Pulitzer prize  nominated  and  winning  books...

Fun facts, useful for trivia nights... Despite all the rigamarole around freedom and one man, one voice, newly established Americans did...

Coalition Meeting Notes Virtual on Zoom Topic: Promote greater utilization and access to existing feeding programs Discussion: 2024...

E2C Aspirational Statement Build a culture of quality instruction, lifelong learning, and equitable access to opportunity that makes...