FUNDING AND CONTRIBUTIONS

Operation REACH, Inc. is funded by grants and donations. This non-profit corporation develops and implements innovative, educational enhancement programs on behalf of government and non-profit agencies to reach target populations. Our programs have reached hundreds of youth and families with empirically-demonstrated measures of success through collaborative efforts with universities and community leaders. We welcome donations from individuals as well. Donations are tax deductible. To make a contribution please e-mail us or you can use the secure, online process provided here.

Funders

U.S. Department of Justice

Tiger Woods Foundation

The Keller Foundation

Blue Cross Blue Shield Child Caring Foundation

GPOA Foundation

Louisiana Stadium Commission

Louisiana Governors Office of Urban Affairs

Louisiana Department of Education

The Greater New Orleans Foundation

Whirlwing Foundation

Harrah's Casino

GENEROUS DONATION KICKS OFF GULF SOUTH SUMMER YOUTH CORPS SUMMER ACTION CAMP IN NEW ORLEANS College students will staff recreational and academic camps for New Orleans middle school children, thanks to PBSJ Foundation and Operation Reach. Thanks to a $25,000 grant from the PBSJ Foundation, raised by employees who wrote and sold a cookbook to help Katrina-ravaged New Orleans, middle high school students will have recreational and academic summer camps to attend in Orleans Parish. The grant supports Operation Reach's GulfSouth Summer Youth Action Corps, a national network of college students dedicated to inspiring and educating New Orleans children through six-week academic and recreational enrichment day-camps operated at sites throughout the city. "We were determined to restore youth camps, despite our normal sponsor, the New Orleans Recreation Department, having lost 90 percent of its staff and a majority of its facilities," said OP Director Dr. Kyshun Webster. "This grant makes our day-camp program possible." Dr. Webster said the program will serve 300 middle-school aged children (grades 5 to 8) beginning June 26 to August 4. The program will be staffed by college students from around the country who passed a rigorous selection process to serve as camp faculty and become members of the GulfSouth Summer Youth Corps. "Operation Reach has utilized college students for years now to bring quality, expanded tutoring programs to local public school students who needed help with their studies. This is a wonderful partnership between young adults who have everything to give and young teens who need quality instructors and role models," said Dr. Webster. Training for the camp counselors will be conducted at Xavier University and starts June 19. The intensive and on-going training of the camp counselors by Operation Reach includes how to help students with traditional subjects, as well as grow by gaining new analytical, self-expression and social consciousness skills. "We had a great deal of interest from students across America who wanted to work with young people from New Orleans and help them rebuild their lives," said Dr. Webster. "We like to think we are offering New Orleans middle school students a seriously fun summer that will be intellectually stimulating." For more information, contact Dr. Webster at (504) 529-1922

Clients

U.S Attorney's Office

Louisiana State Department of Economic Development

City of New Orleans Recreation Department

Housing Authority of New Orleans

Volunteers of America of Greater New Orleans

National Center for the Urban Community

Partners

• Audubon Institute
• Tulane University Institute for Resident Initiatives
• Tulane University CACTUS
• Xavier University Division of Education
• Xavier University MAX
• Loyola University Twomey Center for Peace through Justice
• University of New Orleans IPNL