By Baptist Community Ministries NEW ORLEANS, La. United Way of Southeast Louisiana, in partnership with Baptist Community Ministries, has announced the 2022 Summer Impact Grant opportunity to expand and deepen summer services for New Orleans children and youth. “United Way’s Blueprint for Prosperity, our plan to tackle poverty, calls for proactive collaboration to create the critical impact necessary to address systemic problems and disparities that keep holding our city’s youth back,” said Michael Williamson, UWSELA president and CEO. “We’re grateful to partner with BCM again on this urgent effort to align and bolster summer programming at a time when it’s needed most.” UWSELA and BCM will allocate $500,000 to youth-serving organizations to increase education, health and workforce supports over the summer – often a time of vulnerability for low-income youth due to the lack of daily school and supports provided in a school setting. Interested existing summer programs must operate in Orleans Parish, align with the New Orleans Youth Master Plan and focus on serving young people of color, ages 11 to 24, living below the ALICE Threshold. More than 68 percent of youth in the city’s most vulnerable neighborhoods live in … [Read more...]