- Grant supports Southeast Louisiana’s
long-term, sustainable recovery to help rebuild businesses and
improve the lives of people affected by the recent floods
- Grant to be shared among five
organizations that are helping people live healthier lives
UnitedHealthcare has donated $250,000 to the Baton Rouge Area
Foundation to support five organizations that are helping with
Southeast Louisiana’s long-term, sustainable recovery after the
devastating floods of 2016.
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Baton Rouge Area Foundation received a
$250,000 grant from UnitedHealthcare today at a special event
hosted by Mid City Redevelopment Alliance Inc. in Baton Rouge, La.
The grant will help with relief and recovery efforts from the
floods in Southeast Louisiana. Left to right: Jessica Sparks,
Virginia Listach, Latisha Nixon-Jones with Southern University Law
Center (SULC); Allison Young, UnitedHealthcare; Pam Parker, Woman’s
Hospital Mammography Coach; Tanya Freeman, SULC; First Lady of
Louisiana Donna Edwards; Edmund Giering, Baton Rouge Area
Foundation; Rachel Farmer, UnitedHealthcare; Samuel Sanders, Mid
City Redevelopment Alliance; Zack Rosenberg, SBP; and Karl Lirette,
UnitedHealthcare (Photo: Tim Mueller).
The Baton Rouge Area Foundation – in response to the devastation
caused by torrential rains that damaged more than 100,000 homes and
displaced thousands of families – established the Louisiana Flood
Relief Fund to help support the immediate needs of people and
businesses affected by the floods and aid in the long-term recovery
of Southeast Louisiana.
The foundation will use the grant to support five organizations
already working to help people affected by the floods: SBP
(formerly St. Bernard Project), Mid City Redevelopment Alliance,
the Louisiana First Foundation, Southern University Law Center and
Woman’s Hospital Mammography Coach. The grant is part of
UnitedHealthcare’s ongoing effort to identify and support
organizations in Louisiana that help people live healthier
lives.
“We are grateful for the support of UnitedHealthcare, as this
grant comes at a critical time in our efforts to get people back
into their homes and help re-open businesses,” said John Davies,
president and CEO the Baton Rouge Area Foundation. “There is still
much work to be done, and these recipient organizations are making
a positive impact in our community.”
The $250,000 grant announcement was made in Baton Rouge at the
Mid City Redevelopment Alliance, where First Lady Donna Edwards and
UnitedHealthcare employees joined community volunteers to help load
a truck filled with construction materials to repair damaged
storefronts in the area. Attendees at the event also included
representatives from each organization receiving a grant,
UnitedHealthcare executives and employees, and community
volunteers.
“It is wonderful to see the great work that can be achieved when
private and public organizations work together,” said Louisiana
First Lady Donna Edwards. “I am pleased to be here today with
UnitedHealthcare, Baton Rouge Area Foundation and their partners in
helping our community rebuild its businesses, its homes and its
infrastructure after these devastating floods.”
Mid City Redevelopment Alliance will receive $100,000 to help
launch its “Welcome Home” program focused on rebuilding and
restoring homes and businesses in the Baton Rouge area through
education, and façade- and neighborhood-improvement grants.
SBP will receive $100,000 to assist in rebuilding homes. Through
its local hub, SBP trains organizations on how to rebuild homes
more effectively and efficiently. SBP provides direct gutting and
rebuilding services, technical support, capacity building and best
practices to other recovery organizations.
“The grant from UnitedHealthcare will make a direct impact on
how quickly business owners can re-open their doors and homeowners
can move back into their homes,” said Zack Rosenburg, co-founder
and CEO, SBP. “Our goal is to eliminate the unnecessary suffering
associated with a prolonged recovery. The best way to do that is to
ensure that it is prompt and efficient, but that does not happen
without help and people working together to expedite recovery
efforts.”
The Louisiana First Foundation will receive $25,000 to continue
coordinating resources for state and local governments, private
nonprofit groups and Louisiana residents. The Southern University
Law Center will receive $15,000 to continue its work with the
Disaster Recovery Law Clinic to provide legal help to people
suffering in the aftermath of the flooding.
Also, the Woman’s Hospital Mammography Coach will receive
$10,000 to support its mobile coach that makes mammography
more accessible. The vehicle travels to 15 parishes in Louisiana
visiting churches, schools and community centers to provide women
with breast-imaging services.
“These organizations are doing tremendous work in helping
rebuild our community after these devastating floods and are making
a positive impact in the lives of so many people,” said Allison
Young, CEO, UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Louisiana. “We are
grateful for the opportunity to work with these organizations to
help build a stronger, more resilient Louisiana.”
UnitedHealthcare serves more than 880,000 Louisianans enrolled
in employer-sponsored, individual and Medicare health plans with a
network of 164 hospitals and more than 17,000 physicians and other
care providers statewide.
About UnitedHealthcare:
UnitedHealthcare is dedicated to helping people nationwide live
healthier lives by simplifying the health care experience, meeting
consumer health and wellness needs, and sustaining trusted
relationships with care providers. The company offers the full
spectrum of health benefit programs for individuals, employers,
military service members, retirees and their families, and Medicare
and Medicaid beneficiaries, and contracts directly with more than 1
million physicians and care professionals, and 6,000 hospitals and
other care facilities nationwide. UnitedHealthcare is one of the
businesses of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified Fortune
50 health and well-being company. For more information, visit
UnitedHealthcare at www.uhc.com or follow @myUHC on Twitter.
About the Baton Rouge Area
Foundation:
The Baton Rouge Area Foundation is among the largest community
foundations in the country. We work in two ways to improve the
lives of people across South Louisiana. One, we serve
philanthropists; helping them pursue the causes they care about.
Two, we take on projects for civic good. The Foundation and its
fund donors have granted more than $400 million to nonprofits over
more than five decades. Our projects include rebuilding inner city
neighborhoods, reviving downtown Baton Rouge, improving health care
services
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