Anna's Place - GiveNOLA

The mission of Anna's Place NOLA is to open the door to success for under-served, local youth by fostering moral and ethical behavior, academic achievement, life skills and workforce readiness. We aim to be a place of peace, a second home where children realize their potential and where families and the community are nurtured so that poverty and violence no longer make their home among us.

Anna's Place NOLA is a year-round youth education and mentorship program of St. Anna's Episcopal Church that has served 1000 young people since 2010. Located in the Tremé neighborhood, AP-NOLA takes a whole child approach to disrupting the cycles of poverty and violence prevalent in New Orleans by providing mentorship, interdisciplinary instruction, and outside educational and cultural experiences.
Anna's Place NOLA Offers
* A safe, welcoming, and inclusive facility for youth between the ages of 5 and 18
* Assessment of student's academic proficiency and emotional state
* Academic enhancement
* Social, emotional & life skills training
* Arts education to stimulate creativity
* Job readiness and career preparation
* College, trade school, and private/specialty school preparation
* Exposure to new experiences through field trips
* African-American cultural education and racial-ethnic socialization
* A hot meal
* Transportation to the program
Students' success:
* 100% who continue with AP-NOLA graduate high school
* 100% reported feel academically supported
* 78% like school more
* 30% improvement in reading comprehension & spelling
* 40-75% improvement in STEM subjects

Testimonials

"The program has changed my son's life by helping him get into Jesuit, which will give him opportunities he wouldn't have gotten if not in the program."

"I've had 3 grandchildren enrolled the program over the years. The program has provided them experiences they would not have gotten anywhere else. They learned to play instruments, visited places I nor their mothers would have taken them, and gave them the desire to achieve lifelong goals."