Beneficiaries
The New Orleans Wine & Food Experience is a non-profit organization. Beneficiaries of the 2009 Event:
The University of New Orleans, School of Hotel, Restaurant & Tourism
The UNO HRT Program provides students with the foremost in hospitality and tourism education, which involves individual growth and leadership skills, and professional knowledge of the hospitality and tourism industry.
Louisiana Restaurant Association Education Foundation ProStart® Program
ProStart is a two-year career-building program for high school students who are looking to enter careers in the restaurant industry.
The John Folse Culinary Institute
The John Folse Culinary Institute is dedicated to the preservation and advancement of Louisiana’s rich culinary heritage. NOWFE’s annual donation funds a scholarship for the top culinary students to travel to the Bocuse Institute, in France, where they get hands-on experience with the French roots of Louisiana culinary traditions.
Delgado Community College, School of Culinary Arts
Culinary Arts is one of Delgado’s premier programs, training students for careers in the food services and the restaurant industry.
Cancer Crusaders
Cancer Crusaders was founded for the purpose of raising funds for cancer research in the Greater New Orleans area. Proceeds are divided equally between the Tulane Cancer Center and LSU’s Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center for the express purpose of cancer research.
Girls First
Girls First is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing sport and movement opportunities to underserved girls in the metropolitan New Orleans area.
NOCCA’s Culinary Arts Program
The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts is Louisiana’s high school conservatory. NOCCA’s Culinary Arts Program offers an intensive summer program for young artist/chefs in collaboration with the Emeril Lagasse Foundation and Johnson & Wales University. NOCCA is developing a four-year Culinary Arts high school curriculum to be taught via NOCCA’s master apprentice tradition.
Animal Rescue of New Orleans
Animal Rescue New Orleans (ARNO) is an organization created and dedicated to the rescue and aid of abandoned and homeless animals in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana and Mississippi. ARNO promotes the foster, adoption, and reunion of pets with caretakers, as well as spaying/neutering of all companion animals.
Coach Sean Payton’s Play It Forward Foundation
Play It Forward strives to improve the lives of families and children in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Texas, in the areas of health, education and social welfare.
Fore!Kids Foundation
Fore!Kids has helped to raise over $17 million to date, providing healthcare, education and hope for more than 200,000 kids each year.
Interested in becoming a NOWFE Beneficiary?
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For more information please contact Jamie Peckenpaugh at Jamie@nowfe.com or call 504.529.WINE (9463).