Community Grants Program
Emeril Lagasse Foundation provides capital and programmatic support to eligible non-profit organizations delivering culinary, nutrition, and arts education with a focus on life skills development.
Nutrition, Culinary & Arts Education
Connecting food to healthy living and exploring the cultural lessons surrounding its preparation. Incorporating creativity when teaching lessons both in and out of school.
Louisiana Restaurant Association Education Foundation
Louisiana ProStart is a two-year program for high school students that utilizes an industry-based curriculum, currently serving close to 2,000 juniors and seniors throughout the state.
Lynn Meadows Discovery Center
The WINGS program at Lynn Meadows Discovery Center nurtures talent, spirit and leadership in youth through performing arts and community service at Mississippi’s only children’s museum.
New Orleans Career Center
New Orleans Career Center's (NOCC) Culinary Arts program offers the ProStart National Certificate of Achievement along with the ServSafe Food Manager credential to high school juniors and seniors.
New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA)
A beneficiary since 2006, NOCCA created a 4-year high school culinary arts program for aspiring chefs, the first of its kind in the country.
New Orleans Culinary & Hospitality Institute (NOCHI)
NOCHI equips individuals with the skills, confidence, and entrepreneurial mindset needed to excel in culinary & hospitality careers and passions through accessible, high-quality education and programs.
North Bay Children’s Center
The Garden of Eatin’ at North Bay Children’s Center (NBCC) brings Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) to life through daily garden, cooking, and nutrition experiences for children ages 0–8.
Orange County School of the Arts Foundation
Orange County School of the Arts' Mekjian Family Culinary Arts & Hospitality Conservatory offers students in grades 9 through 12 advanced training in both culinary arts and hospitality.
Sinfonia Gulf Coast
Sinfonia is dedicated to entertaining, educating, and inspiring the community through innovative musical programming. Serving Florida's Emerald Coast, Sinfonia has reached 250,000+ children through education outreach over 21 seasons.
Son of a Saint
Through the Emeril Lagasse Foundation—Son of a Saint Nutrition Education Program, over 300 boys receive cooking classes, nutrition education, and home-cooked meals as part of the program.
Life Skills Development
Providing mentorship to our communities most vulnerable youth to obtain and sustain employment.
Alaqua Animal Refuge
As the Emerald Coast's premier no-kill refuge, Alaqua provides protection, shelter and care to animals in need. Alaqua has a variety of educational outreach & community programs which promote personal growth in children with developmental needs.
Arc Broward
For 60 years Arc Broward has been a catalyst for transformation by changing how people with developmental disabilities are included, enabling them to live, learn, work and play in their communities.
Café Hope
Serving the youth of the Westbank of the New Orleans metro area, Café Hope teaches job readiness and hospitality skills to youth looking to make a positive change in their lives.
Café Reconcile
Café Reconcile, a hospitality training program for at-risk youth, has enabled over 1,500 students to empower their own futures since opening its doors 15 years ago.
Dan Marino Foundation
In January 2017, The Dan Marino Foundation opened the second Marino Campus at Florida International University, Modesto A. Maidique Campus, which features a curriculum designed to build the necessary skills for gainful, competitive employment, social competence and independent living.
St. Michael Special School
St. Michael Special School enhances the learning experiences of all students in specifically designed spaces to accommodate individualized needs.
Youth Empowerment Project (YEP)
YEP engages underserved young people through community-based education, mentoring, enrichment, and employment readiness programs to help them develop skills and strengthen ties to family and community.
Basic Needs
Giving access to the benefits that come from being cared for, well-nourished, and ready to learn.
Covenant House
For 30 years, Covenant House has met the needs of homeless and opportunity youth (ages 16-22) and their children in the New Orleans area, helping more than 30,000 kids off of the streets to achieve stability and either reunite with family or build the skills and resources needed for independent living.
Emerald Coast Children’s Advocacy Center
ECCAC's mission is to prevent child abuse and neglect, protect child abuse victims, and restore the lives and futures of impacted children.
Food for Thought
Food For Thought provides backpacks filled with healthy, easy to prepare food for students who are dependent on free or reduced school meals in Walton and Okaloosa Counties.
Second Harvest Food Bank
Second Harvest’s Summer Feeding and Kids Cafe Programs provide meals to hungry, low-income children when school meals are not available for those most in need in our community.