OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 174
Nola.com reported Nearly 85,000 Hispanic people moved to Louisiana between 2000 and 2010; without them, the state would have shrunk by...
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Community Check-Ins
Each Friday morning, we host an open forum for a weekly Driver-themed conversation.
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 173
Join us this Friday for Week 173 of OneRouge at 8:30 am. In September 2020, Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome established Safe Hopeful...
E2C Meeting 08/15/23
Coalition Meeting Notes Executive Summary: After a successful launch in April, the Education to Career Coalition (E2C) continues to build...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 172
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...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 171
The focus of the conversation will be on the impact the extreme heat has on our local economy and workforce with our featured speakers :...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 170
Since March 2020 during the Covid outbreak a rotating group of 400+ community leaders from the business, municipal, and nonprofit sectors...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 169
Hunger affects over 34 million people in the US, including 9 million children. There were an estimated 640,540 people in Louisiana live...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 168
We’ve all heard that there is such a thing as a digital divide. This essentially refers to the gap that some folk fall into because they...
CAFE Meeting 07/19/23
Coalition Meeting Notes Virtual Meeting Discussion: Partnering with EBRPSS Men's Health Fair and Disaster Preparedness Plans Helena...
T&M Meeting 07/20/23 (virtual)
Coalition Meeting Notes June meeting outcomes identified the most important steps to happen by August 6, 2023: Google doc to add links...
OneRouge Community Check -In - Week 166
End of July means the end of summer camps, summer jobs, summer internships ... well, it's just the end of summer. This is also about the...
OneRouge Community Check -In - Week 165
Fun fact! In Louisiana, the poverty rate is 19.6%; meanwhile is it 11.6% nationwide (also not great, but still). We have been the...
E2C Meeting 07/18/23
Coalition Meeting Notes At this month's E2C virtual meeting, we briefly resumed the discussion from our June virtual convening around...
OneRouge Community Check -In - Week 164
Couple of questions for you... Have you ever wondered about the connection of ableism to the patriarchy? Well, to start at the...
OneRouge Community Check -In - Week 163
There used to be a narrative that tech raised wages for everyone except the truly poor because the theory was in order to capitalize off...
OneRouge Community Check -In - Week 162
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...
CAFE Meeting 06/20/23
Coalition Meeting Notes Virtual Meeting Discussion: Changes in SNAP to be aware of Our guest speaker to tell us about the changes in SNAP...
OneRouge Community Check -In - Week 161
Good, bad, or indifferent, the image of the starving artist has persisted through time. They are likely presented as tortured, maybe a...
Transportation and Mobility Coalition Launched!
On May 25th, the inaugural meeting began the first step forward for the Transportation & Mobility Coalition. The Transportation & Social...
E2C Meeting 06/20/23
Coalition Meeting Notes Casey Phillips Welcome everyone to the space. This is obviously our first monthly, in between the in-person...
OneRouge Community Check -In - Week 160
June 20 is World Refugee Day, an international day designated by the United Nations to honor refugees around the globe. A refugee by...
OneRouge Community Check -In - Week 159
Louisiana often tops the worst health outcomes lists. But did you know that we have researchers and practitioners who are committed to...
OneRouge Community Check -In - Week 158
Since March 2020 during the Covid outbreak a rotating group of 400+ community leaders from the business, municipal, and nonprofit sectors...
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 157
Did you know that May is #GetCaughtReadingMonth? Well, that is as good an excuse as any to talk libraries and proposed legislation that...
CAFE Meeting 05/17/23
Coalition Meeting Notes In-Person at Goodwood Library Needs and Offers Activity: Need: Food Delivery Service > Asset Mapping > GGH has a...
Education to Career (E2C) Coalition Meeting Notes 5.16.23
Meeting Notes & Next Steps May 16, 2023 @ EBR Goodwood Library Quarterly In-Person Convening Opening and Overview Group shared stats...
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 156
Transportation describes the act of moving something or someone, whereas mobility describes the ability of a person to move or be moved....
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 155
The first slave ships from Africa arrived in Louisiana in 1719 mostly from Senegambia, the Bight of Benin, the Bight of Biafra, and...
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 154
A recent study revealed there were “34,210 unaccompanied youth under the age of 25 experiencing homelessness”. That is an increase...
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 153
The tough on crime rhetoric has been with us since the 70s. And though longer and more stringent sentences are a logical deterrent to...
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 152
OneRouge started as a weekly call at the start of the Covid shut down just to share information. Over time, it has grown into a movement...
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 151
Louisiana is increasingly prone to natural disasters. There is even an entire season dedicated to watching and preparing for hurricanes....
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 150
We all know there is a connection between poverty and health, poverty and food insecurity, poverty and transportation, poverty and...
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 149
Everyone has seen a forest – but if you are from South Louisiana, chances are it’s only been in books. That’s because we don’t have...
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 148
It is almost surreal to think that the onset of COVID spurred our Friday calls and the OneRouge Coalition. We have made friends and...
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 147
The month of March, we are celebrating Women’s History Month. That means we are looking at women’s initiatives through both historic and...
CAFE Meeting 03/08/23
Coalition Meeting Notes At March's CAFÉ meeting, we met as a group to hear from Farmer Jones on the Black Farmer experience. We then...
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 146
Did you know that wo men have gained more jobs than men for 4 straight months in 2023? It is amazing because Coronavirus deeply impacted...
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 145
In 2021, Baton Rouge was dubbed the "least equitable" city in the country for the gender pay gap since there's a difference of 48.5%...
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 144
In 2022, Louis iana had the second highest poverty rate in the US at 18%, meaning 845,230 people living in poverty. The number of...
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 143
Every year since 1986, we have celebrated Black History Month. We repeat and relive stories of school segregation and integration,...
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 142
OneRouge Meeting #142 will be in keeping with the theme of Baton Rouge stories for Black History Month, we will be hearing from My...
CAFE Meeting 02/08/23
Coalition Meeting Notes At February's CAFE meeting, we met to discuss the policy work Food Policy Action Council (FPAC) is currently...
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 141
Join us at 8:30 am for Week #141 via Zoom for this special African American History Month call co-curated by our very own Rodneyna Hart,...
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 140
Join us at 8:30 am for Week #140 via Zoom. Our Education to Career Coalition Co-Chair Dustin Lafont has been saying for what feels like...
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 139
Join us at 8:30 am for Week #139 via Zoom. Transportation is more than about getting from here to there. Walkable cities not only...
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 138
Join us at 8:30 am for Week #138 via Zoom. Let’s talk housing! Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome recently gave the State of the City...
One Rouge Community Check -In - Week 137
Happy New Year, OneRouge Family! For Week #137 via Zoom for the first OneRouge Friday call of 2023, we are level setting and talking...
OneRouge Community Check-In - Week 136
Week #136 Join us this Friday for OneRouge Week #136 at 8:30 am via Zoom. We are talking about Baton Rouge and making it the place we all...
CAFE Coalition Meeting #5 Notes
Meeting #5 - 12/08/22 Agenda: Here Attendees: Jan Ross • Donald Andrews •.Carl Motsenbocker • Casey Phillips• Helena Williams • Emily...
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