CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • River City Market Opens Tomorrow: Feed the Arts Festival

    River City Market, downtown Alexandria’s arts, crafts, and produce market, will open tomorrow from 8AM until 2PM, kicking off the spring season. The market will also feature live entertainment from local musicians, billed as a “feed the arts” festival. The River City Market is held in the back of the old Weiss and Goldring building on the corner of 4th and DeSoto. Check out their website.

  • A Look at the Web Resources of the United Way of Central Louisiana

    By Daniel Smith The impetus for this post came from David Britt, who has been president of the United Way of Central Louisiana for the past decade. Dave left a comment in my previous post, and I felt compelled to make up for overlooking his organization in my hasty and incomplete overview of the nonprofit scene in Cenla. It would take months to uncover every nook and cranny of the Louisiana nonprofit sector’s web presence, and fortunately the United Way of Central Louisiana has already completed most of that work. The homepage of the website for the United Way of…

  • Non-Profit Coordination and Capacity-Building Research: Some Examples in the State of Louisiana

    By Daniel Smith Nonprofit organizations are a vital part of a community’s ability to provide services to the marginalized, and nonprofits often work independently of the government and compete with each other for limited resources. Because of this, any opportunity to eliminate redundancy in services should be readily welcomed. On the other hand, government must tread the fine line between advising and interfering, as nonprofit organizations have the desire–and the right–to make their own operational decisions. In the following I hope to present examples of efforts to increase efficiency in the nonprofit sector, and suggest that these efforts stand on…