Teach For America Greater New Orleans

For 35 years, Teach For America Greater New Orleans has been committed to one thing: finding, developing, and supporting leaders to transform education in our community and expand opportunity for all children. 

We recruit and develop teachers, placing them in classrooms and supporting them to meet goals that reflect the big ambitions their students have for their own futures. What begins as an initial two-year commitment does not stop there. Our corps members become alumni who are proximate to both the possibility and the urgency of ensuring every child receives the education they deserve. They continue leading in classrooms and high performing schools, launch non-profit organizations that deliver unmet needs, and create schools with expectations that match the heights of our students’ dreams. They are Teachers of the Year, leaders in the community, and founders of thriving local businesses. They love Louisiana, and they remain rooted in and rooting for Greater New Orleans.

Now, in our 35th anniversary year, we have expanded our scope of work and our support for educators to encompass not only TFA corps members (first and second-year TFA teachers) and TFA alumni, but also high-dosage tutors, veteran teachers, and school systems leaders. TFA Greater New Orleans has placed more than 3,000 new teachers at underserved schools, serving 30,000 students across the region in the last five years alone. We have over 1300 alumni still making an impact in our region.

Louisiana’s fast-improving and historic educational outcomes are making national headlines; we are now ranked 16th in the nation for fourth-grade reading. Yet, there is still more work to do. 

Every dollar raised during GiveNOLA Day directly powers TFA’s work in Greater New Orleans. Every single contribution propels us forward, enabling us to ignite the potential of every child and educator in Greater New Orleans today, and for generations to come.