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May 10, 2023
United Way reveals inaugural Thriving African-American Small Business Initiative grantees
15 local businesses selected for matched savings incubator program
Who drives better, men or women? Many men will tell you that women are worse drivers. However, according to Insurance Business Magazine, male drivers are more likely to get involved in accidents than female motorists.
Sorry fellas. But take heart! Anyone can save money on gas using the driving techniques listed below.
2.15.23
236,000+ Louisiana households are awaiting FEMA aid decisions as deadline looms
NEW ORLEANS — The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Individuals and Households Program (IHP) will stop accepting appeals and providing financial assistance for Hurricane Ida on Feb. 28, 2023, despite the fact that, according to FEMA’s own records, there is still no decision on over 236,000 Louisianan households' applications for assistance.
NOTE: Before reading, take a moment to review this video from our partners at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta to understand the benefits cliff and its impacts on low-income households and the broader community.
IYKYK. An acronym whose popularity continues to rise on social media.
If you know, you know.
They’ve bravely served and sacrificed for our country. Yet 36% of Southeast Louisiana’s veterans cannot afford basics in the nation they’ve so selflessly defended.
In the public policy arena, progress is often incremental and takes years of persistent effort. But the pay-off – systems-level positive change – makes the case for advocacy crystal clear.
April 13, 2022
Three Ways to Build an Emergency Savings Fund
I take my car in for maintenance religiously. So imagine my surprise when my mechanic told me my car’s rims needed to be replaced to the tune of $2,500. After getting two other estimates, I found a shop to replace my rims for $1,100.
Time flies when you’re helping families become financially stable.
Maybe that’s not quite how the saying goes, but it’s hard to believe that we recently celebrated the fourth anniversary of United Way of Southeast Louisiana’s J. Wayne Leonard Prosperity Center in New Orleans.
In the wake of Ida’s devastation, our United Way of Southeast Louisiana team laced up their shoes, donned their best LIVE UNITED shirts (or perhaps cleanest), and provided critical boots-on-the-ground relief to many of the hardest-hit areas we serve. As quickly as we received monetary and supply donations, we’ve worked at the speed of need to move them back out into the communities to aid struggling families and nonprofit partners.
6.4.21
Following the death of George Floyd a little more than a year ago, I reflected on his senseless murder. I also acknowledged the privileges I have been afforded. Not as an admonition of guilt or to suggest I haven’t worked hard, but simply a recognition that access and opportunity are not afforded to all people equitably.