The New Orleans Film Society (NOFS) was founded in 1989. 2011 marks the 22nd anniversary of the New Orleans Film Festival, which has grown into a major showcase of local, regional, national, and international films. In addition to the annual Film Festival each fall, the NOFS hosts special events throughout the year: the French Film Festival, the New Orleans International Children’s Film Festival, and other events designed to benefit local film audiences, artists, and professionals.
Loyola University New Orleans (www.loyno.edu) combines the Jesuit commitment to educating the whole person with academic excellence and an ideal size that fosters individual student success. We develop students into a new generation of leaders.
The Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) is a multi-donor partnership administered by the World Bank to support poor people in obtaining affordable, safe and sustainable access to water and sanitation services.
We work directly with client governments at the local and national level in 25 countries through regional offices in Africa, East and South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and in, Washington D.C.
Communities in crisis need knowledge and empowerment. FilmAid provides both, to millions of people suffering the effects of war, poverty, displacement or disaster. Films provide a way to reach many people at once, overcoming literacy boundaries, bringing forth information where it is needed and inspiring hope where it is lacking. From the creation of educational films to filmmaker training and mobile cinema screenings, all of FilmAid’s programs stem from the principle of local, participatory development in order to best meet community needs.
Blue Planet Network is a group of passionate people, working with a global network of experienced water groups, to bring sustainable safe drinking water to people in rural communities around the world.
Our goal is to enable safe drinking water for 200,000,000 people in the next 20 years.
The Samburu Project´s primary initiative is aimed at providing easy access to clean, safe drinking water to communities throughout the Samburu District of Kenya. This is a community where women and children walk up to 12 miles every day in search of water. Often, this water is contaminated. With clean water, it will become possible to impact other aspects of community life including education, healthcare, income generation and women´s empowerment. With water, development happens.
Global Water Trust (GWT) is mobilizing an international coalition of key players from the financial, philanthropic, technology, NGO, media, entertainment, corporate, government and civil society communities. Through this coalition, the Trust will organize, manage and deploy the critical resources required to combat the global water crisis.
Harnessing the power of beautiful design to uplift the human spirit, International House celebrates New Orleans today – an ensemble of unique architecture, colorful characters, joyful culture, signature food and music unlike any other city in America. Animated with ritual, romance and passion, infused with intriguing European, Caribbean and African influences and fueled by the city’s mosaic of humanity and creative culture, the hotel is recognized as one of the premier boutique hotels in the world by Conde Nast Traveller, Southern Living, Esquire, Entrepreneur and Wallpaper magazines.
