Friday Community Call Notes

OneRouge. One Louisiana. Today, we grieve alongside our neighbors in New Orleans after the heartbreaking tragedy on Bourbon Street that...

If there’s one thing history has taught us, it’s that real change happens when we come together to confront injustice. As we approach the...

Spotlight on Community Changemakers: Connecting for a Better Baton Rouge At One Rouge, we're committed to building stronger, healthier...

Discover the transformative work of LaunchBR, a forward-thinking community initiative spearheaded by Metromorphosis. This week's...

Decompressing Politically: Processing Post-Election Reflections Together After the election, many of us felt a mix of emotions as we...

Workforce Re-entry for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals in Baton Rouge For formerly incarcerated individuals in Baton Rouge, re-entering...

This week's Community Call delved into the complex ways successions, land banks, and land trusts can unintentionally contribute to...

FAFSA and Dual Enrollment: Answers to Common Questions As students and parents plan for the future, questions about FAFSA (Free...

Connecting Poverty, Mental Illness, and Suicide Prevention: Resources, Tools, & Advocacy The link between poverty and mental illness is...

Coalition Updates: Progress on Our Mission to Address the 9 Drivers of Poverty We recently convened our three key coalitions—Education to...

Local Chefs in Baton Rouge: Blending Tradition and Nutrition Baton Rouge’s culinary landscape is shaped by local chefs who are redefining...

The Importance of Voter Registration in Light of New Legislation With recent changes in voter and crime legislation, it has never been...

Transforming Fundraising: Embracing New Strategies for Greater Impact In today’s fast-changing world, nonprofits need to evolve their...

Intersectionality, Identity, and Power's Role in Tackling Poverty Poverty is a multifaceted issue, not merely defined by a lack of...

Farm to Future: Investing in Food for Better Health Get ready to dig into the exciting world of local food systems with "Farm to Future:...

Creating Pathways to Success for Baton Rouge's Youth How do we build a bridge for young people who may lack the higher education or...

Why Digital Equity Matters in Baton Rouge: Did you know? A 2022 survey from LSU  found that 20% of Louisiana adults do not have home...

Necessity  is the mother of invention feels like the sort of thing you might hear about a washing machine. Thing is, it has also long...

Well, we missed National Healthy Homes month this year (they moved the observance from June to April). However, the Dallas Housing...

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

The quest for knowledge is not new. I mean, who doesn't want to know stuff?!?!? Discovery, necessity, mother of invention, and all have...

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

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...

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...

The Capital Area Food Equity (CAFÉ) Coalition is OneRouge's first anti-poverty coalition to stand up. The reason was (and remains) that...

Back when COVID hit, the  brokenness  of the collective systems we use daily were laid bare. The most shocking was how tenuous our  food...

Welcome to 2024! And welcome back to One Rouge Fridays. It's hard to believe that in March we will hit 4 years of OneRouge calls! If you...

Did you know that stress responses occur in stages on the “ continuum of behavioral and emotional responses ”? The CDC says there are 4...

Food is such an integral part of life! It’s not just that it keeps us alive , but that in many ways, food facilitates living. But...

It's the start of the last month of the year so this Friday we are kicking off Wellness Month by sharing tips and tricks to get through...

Thanksgiving is next week. November is almost over. And 2024 is right around the corner. But before we go too far, we are going to take a...

There are a lot of scary things going on in October. Halloween. State elections. Pluto, Saturn, Neptune, Jupiter, and Uranus are all in...

Have you been to one of our Transportation and Mobility Coalition meetings? Admittedly, most of the time we talk alternatives to driving...

The weather is becoming unpredictable, like the drought in South Louisiana where we are about 20 inches short of rainfall this year than...

Join us this Friday for Week 173 of OneRouge at 8:30 am. In September 2020, Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome established Safe...

Stop me if you have heard this one before, but elections do matter. And we have a pretty big one coming up this November 18. In case you...

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

Hunger affects over 34 million people in the US, including 9 million children. There were an estimated 640,540 people in Louisiana live...

As horrifying as it, most people know that Black women have the highest mortality rate in the US. Some have even heard that Black girls...