Bayou Community Foundation

Bayou Community Foundation strengthens our precious Lafourche, Terrebonne and Grand Isle communities through philanthropic leadership. Together with donors, partners and local nonprofit organizations, we work each day to create a vibrant and diverse coastal community where all can thrive by inspiring generosity, growing charitable resources to address critical community needs and cultivating strategic partnerships and programs that make a lasting impact.

YOUR GIFT to Bayou Community Foundation GROWS GOOD!

BCF is the only community foundation specifically working to strengthen our unique and precious bayou region of Lafourche, Terrebonne, and Grand Isle, Louisiana through philanthropic leadership. BCF and generous and compassionate donors like YOU are GROWING GOOD in our bayou communities, creating a robust and diverse coastal community where ALL can THRIVE!

When You Give to Bayou Community Foundation through GiveNOLA, YOUR GIFT funds:
- Grants to Nonprofits that deliver food at local food banks, behavioral health services, housing, workforce development and fill other critical needs for under-resourced residents in Lafourche, Terrebonne and Grand Isle;
- Working Groups that are addressing food insecurity, mental health, and substance use disorder in our community;
- ANCHOR the Bayou community capacity - building program in South Lafourche and South Terrebonne
- Conferences and workshops to strengthen the work of nonprofits
- Our ongoing "Rebuild the Bayou" housing recovery program

Thank you for being a Bayou Community Champion!