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Baton Rouge Area Foundation ("''The Foundation''") is a community foundation dedicated to enhancing the quality of life in Louisiana's capital region, and is registered with the IRS as a 501(c)(3) tax-deductible nonprofit organization. Over the past 40 years, the Baton Rouge Area Foundation has responded to the wishes of its donors, the concerns of its members, and the community's needs by issuing grants totaling close to $200 million. In addition to grants, the Baton Rouge Area Foundation has the flexibility to launch community initiatives without politics or other entanglements. Alarmed, for instance, at the rapid rise in new AIDS cases in Baton Rouge in 2002, ''The Foundation'' convened key stakeholders who formed the group Baton Rouge Citizens Against HIV and launched an awareness campaign known as Protect Yourself Baton Rouge. Since then, local testing has increased and the number of new reported cases has fallen. ==History== In 1964, a group of 12 Baton Rouge business leaders created the Foundation to raise money and purchase land for the Gulf South Research Institute (GSRI) to locate offices in Baton Rouge. Since then, the nonprofit Foundation has pursued its work in two ways, connecting philanthropists to nonprofits across South Louisiana and some other parts of the world and taking on civic leadership projects, such as health and school reform, reviving downtown Baton Rouge and creating The Water Institute of the Gulf. In assets, BRAF is now ranked among the top 30 community foundations in the country in an annual survey by the Columbus Foundation. Highlights of the Foundation's work include: * 1964 acquisition of property for Gulf South Research Institute (GSRI) * Initiated The Community Fund for the Arts Campaign, which is currently managed by The Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge * 1988 - a $700,000 investment to support Pennington Biomedical Research Institute and its new director, Dr. George Bray * Worked with Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) to seed the beginning of Community Development Corporation in Baton Rouge * Created the Academic Distinction Fund. * Funded and consistently supported the Citizen's Task Force on Education, which spearheaded the conclusion of the East Baton Rouge Parish Desegregation Case * Coordinated the process that lead to Baton Rouge being awarded $18.6 million Hope VI Grant to revitalize the area between downtown Baton Rouge and LSU * Actively initiated and funded Plan Baton Rouge, Forum 35, Main Street Market, and BREADA * Spearheaded the creation of the Shaw Center for the Arts * Initiated HIV/AIDS Awareness Campaign to educate local citizens on the alarming rate of new HIV/AIDS cases * Created the Water Institute of the Gulf.〔Wold, Amy. (), "The Advocate", 31 May 2013.〕 (TWIG ) is created to provide independent science for taking on the double threat of rising waters and subsiding lands in deltas around the world. * Created New Schools for Baton Rouge. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Baton Rouge Area Foundation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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