Grace at the Green Light

Offering New Orleans unhoused population choices while providing for their basic needs (water, food, clothing and community) in a loving manner that embraces the human spirit.

Since July of 2014, Grace at the Green Light has served over 500,000 meals to the unhoused community and reunited over 4,000 individuals with their loved ones. Grace at the Green Light offers outreach services to the local unhoused population. 

Through Meals with Love we offer a free breakfast 365 days a year. We also offer case management and referral service for our participants to receive resources they need. In doing so, we not only provide for individuals' basic needs but also set our participants up to receive the services they need to get off the streets. Included in our Meals With Love program is a clothing closet that is open multiple times a week for our unhoused population to receive free clothing & hygiene items.

Our Going Home Program provides a bus or train ticket for participants to return home to a loved on and get off the streets. We ensure that our participants are returning to a safe place and will remain off the streets by contacting the loved one they are returning to and follow up for 3 months after reunification.

Our Hydrate NOLA program helps keep our unhoused population hydrated and healthy. After our founding in 2014, we began distributing hundreds of thousands of disposable water bottles annually. Since 2022, we have partnered with local organizations to install 16 water fountains throughout the city, offering a more sustainable option for our unhoused population to access clean drinking water – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We have also distributed reusable water bottles to our clients to encourage them to utilize the new water fountains.