Nonprofits

The average Baton Rouge resident may have no idea the Baton Rouge Area Foundation and John Davies have been the force behind some of the city’s most influential quality-of-life projects.

Visit Baton Rouge will spend as much as $250,000 to bring Garth Brooks to a sold-out Tiger Stadium on April 30.

The Baton Rouge Health District, through its participation in the Gulf Coast Health Sciences...

The board that oversees East Baton Rouge Parish’s redevelopment authority will meet tomorrow and begin the search to find a replacement for outgoing CEO Chris Tyson.

Louisiana has failed to provide adequate public information about taxpayer money received through the federal Coronavirus Relief Fund, a new report from think tank Good Jobs First asserts.

The Louisiana Craft Brewers Guild has put up more than 30 billboards in Lake Charles to urge lawmakers in town for the annual LegisGator event to take a hard look at how the state regulates the craft beer industry, Executive Director Cary Koch says. 

Baton Rouge nonprofit Provident Resources Group is looking to raise up to $125 million to restore the Balsams Resort in New Hampshire, which has been shuttered for 10 years, The Boston Globe reports.  

Canadian Pacific Railway recently committed to a Baton Rouge-to-New Orleans passenger rail service, something BRAF and its executive vice president, John Spain, have been working on for over a decade.

As part of Baton Rouge Entrepreneurship Week, Nexus Louisiana will host a high-stakes pitch competition that will culminate with a live pitch event March 10 in which the winner will receive a $100,000 investment prize.

Over the past two years, Louisiana nonprofits that rely on charitable giving have faced...