Living With Purpose Site Placements

Each of our site placements put our fellows on the ground and engage them in ministry to low-income and marginalized communities.  These site placements have a proven track record of success, and many flourished in the rich, innovative environment of service in Baton Rouge and New Orleans.  They provide supervision, training, and guidance, to develop not only competence in the duties required but understanding of the full scope and mission of their agency.  Each fellow becomes an integral part of their site placement agency, attending staff meetings, meeting goals and benchmarks, and working within the agency as a full-time employee.

Baton Rouge

• Kids’ Orchestra
  Kids’ Orchestra is a year-round program dedicated to bringing music education to every child in Baton Rouge, fostering collaboration, and encouraging personal and community development. In collaboration with a broad array of community partners, Kids’ Orchestra provides music education, instruments, leadership development, and performance opportunities to kindergarten through fifth grade students in the Baton Rouge area.

• Volunteers in Public Schools
  The mission of Volunteers in Public Schools is to foster student success and to build support for public education.

• O’Brien House
  O’Brien House saves lives & families from alcoholism & drug abuse through residential treatment & community outreach.

New Orleans

• Habitat for Humanity
  Habitat’s vision: a world where everyone has a decent place to live.

• Jericho Road Housing Initiative
  Jericho Road Episcopal Housing Initiative of New Orleans is a neighborhood-based nonprofit homebuilder that provides families with healthy and energy-efficient affordable housing opportunities. We partner with neighborhood residents, organizations and businesses to create and maintain a stable and thriving community.

• St. Thomas Community Health Center
  St. Thomas Community Health Center’s mission is to provide culturally competent health care of the highest quality, regardless of the ability to pay. We foster relevant research and educational activities directed toward achieving community-driven health initiatives that reduce health disparities in our community.

• Trinity Loaves and Fishes
  In its seventh year of operation Trinity’s Loaves and Fishes program operates six days a week, taking meals to the homeless, to not for profits that work with the poor, as well as to those who are rebuilding their lives and homes in New Orleans and the volunteers helping them to do so.