Foundation for Louisiana is proud to announce eighteen organizations across Louisiana as the 2027 National Day of Racial Healing grantee partners. Each organization will receive $5,000, for a total investment of $90,000, to design and host racial healing events, staff engagements, and community gatherings to commemorate the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s National Day of Racial Healing in January 2027. These grants are funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

Grantee partners will use the National Day of Racial Healing Conversation Guide and related tools as a foundation, adapting them to reflect their own histories, cultures, and lived experiences. They will host healing circles, community conversations, bus tours, arts and culture events, shared meals, and staff convenings in communities across the state. In February 2027, grantee partners will come together for a shared learning roundtable to reflect on what they built and to help shape Foundation for Louisiana’s future racial healing work.

2027 Grantee Partners

• Be Loud Studios (New Orleans)
• Beyond Harm (New Orleans)
• Canneci Tinne Apache Tribe (Carencro)
• The Descendants Project (Laplace)
• Dillard University (New Orleans)
• Gamma Alpha Psi Fraternity (Carville)
• Humanities Amped (Baton Rouge)
• Iberia African American Historical Society (New Iberia)
• Line4Line (Baton Rouge)
• LORI (Baton Rouge)
• Matriz y Mar (New Orleans)
• New Orleans African American Museum (New Orleans)
• Puentes New Orleans (New Orleans)
• Rural Roots Louisiana (Lake Charles)
• Sexual Trauma & Awareness Response Center (Baton Rouge)
• Step Up Louisiana (Baton Rouge)
• True Friends Society of Lafayette (Lafayette)
• The Walls Project (Baton Rouge)

Why racial healing matters to us

Foundation for Louisiana was born out of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, when the storms laid bare inequities that had been building in our state for generations. Louisiana is rich in resources, and the gap in who holds and controls them is the result of choices made over centuries. Closing that gap takes more than policy change. People carry the weight of that history in their bodies, their families, and their communities, and changing systems starts with the people inside them.

Racial healing creates space for people to speak openly, hear the truth about past wrongs, and build the trust that lasting change depends on. It also sustains the leaders and organizations doing this work. For us, healing is part of the work of justice, and it is central to our vision of a Louisiana where all people are free, respected, and loved.

We are grateful to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for its partnership and to each of these organizations for the care they bring to their communities. Learn more about the National Day of Racial Healing at dayofracialhealing.org and about our Racial Justice Program at foundationforlouisiana.org/what-we-do/racial-justice-program.