2025 Charity List
Our giving spirit over the years has generated over $3 million in donations towards the Louisiana State Combined Charitable Campaign (LA SCCC)! Thank you for your past support and please join me in being a part of the 2025 campaign.
This year, our Campaign Goal is to raise $347,000.
CONNECT AND GIVE:
Website: LASCCC.org
Donate Online: LEO
Facebook/X: @LouisianaSCCC
#GiveHOPELA
You can help and make a difference by supporting up to five of the 56 participating health and human service charities serving our Louisiana. To learn more, please review the list of participating charities on pages 5 – 8.
To make your 2025 LA SCCC pledge:
• Securely donate online through LEO
• or Complete a pledge form found on page 10 and turn in to your campaign coordinator
For more information about this campaign, please contact your campaign coordinator or visit LASCCC.org.
The Louisiana Association of United Ways (LAUW) proudly serves as the Principal Combined Fundraising Organization (PCFO) for the LA SCCC, working closely with the Office of State Uniform Payroll (OSUP) in the Division of Administration. LAUW is here to assist you as you need. Please feel free to connect with them anytime using the information provided on the back cover.
Thank you for supporting the LA SCCC!
Sincerely,
Taylor F. Barras
Sarah H. Berthelot Division of Administration, Louisiana Association of United Ways, Commissioner President and CEO
2025 Charity List
1096 Alzheimer's Association
www.alz.org/louisiana 504-641-4551 ext. 8037
Regions served: All regions
Alzheimer's Association leads the way to end Alzheimer's — by accelerating global research, driving risk reduction and early detection, and maximizing quality care and support.
1001 Alzheimer's Services of the Capital Area, Inc.
www.alzbr.org 225-334-7494
Regions served: All regions
Provides education, support, and services to caregivers and those affected by Alzheimer's disease and other memoryrelated impairments. Three respite center locations in the Greater Baton Rouge area.
1002 American Cancer Society, Inc.
www.cancer.org 1-800-227-2345
Regions served: All regions
Improving lives of people with cancer through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.
1003 American Diabetes Association
www.diabetes.org 1-800-342-2383
Regions served: All regions
American Diabetes Association's mission is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.
1004 American Heart Association, Inc.
www.heart.org 1-800-242-8721
Regions served: All regions
American Heart Association's mission is to be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives through research, training, advocacy, community impact and education.
1005 American Red Cross
www.redcross.org/Louisiana 504-620-3150
Regions served: All regions
The American Red Cross prevents and alleviates human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors.
1007 Avoyelles Society for the Developmentally Disabled, Inc.
www.asddsilverlinings.org 318-253-6955
Regions served: 7
Serving adults with Mental and Developmental Disabilities.
1113 Baton Rouge Youth Coalition, Inc.
www.thebryc.org 225-456-5752
Regions served: 2, 3, 4
Serves people of all faiths with life-changing programs to address critical needs like crisis pregnancies, disasters, unemployment, adoption, early childhood education, incarceration and poverty. Charity descriptions are supplied by the charitable organizations.
Provides best-in-class college-preparatory services — for free — so underserved teens in the Capital Region can enter, persist in, and graduate college and earn career-track jobs.
1098 Cancer Association of Louisiana
www.calacares.org 504-733-5539
Regions served: All regions
Founded in 1959, CALA/CAGNO’s mission is to provide access to care and improve quality of life for vulnerable patients undergoing cancer treatment in Louisiana.
1076 Capital Area Agency on AgingDistrict II, Inc.
www.capitalaaa.org 225-922-2525
Regions served: 1, 2, 3, 4
CAAA develops systems designed to assist older persons in leading independent and meaningful lives in their own homes and communities as long as possible.
1099
Capital Area CASA Association
www.casabr.org 225-379-8598
Regions served: 2
Capital Area CASA Association trains community volunteers to advocate for abused and neglected foster children to find permanent, safe and stable homes.
1114 CARE Pregnancy Center
www.CAREPregnancyHelp.com 318-861-4600
Regions served: 8
Provides free urine pregnancy testing, limited ultrasound scans, parenting and prenatal education, and maternity and infant/ toddler material assistance to parents and families.
1078 Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans
www.ccano.org 504-523-3755
Regions served: 1, 3, 4
Offers life-giving programs, advocates for the voiceless, and empowers the vulnerable in order to foster a just society.
1079 Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Baton Rouge, Inc.
www.CatholicCharitiesBR.org 225-336-8700
Regions served: 2, 3, 4
2025 Charity List
1023 Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank, Inc.
www.brfoodbank.org 225-359-9940
Regions served: 2, 3, 4
Mission is to feed the hungry in Baton Rouge and surrounding parishes by providing food and educational outreach through faith-based and other community partners.
1117 Habitat for Humanity of Greater Baton Rouge, Inc.
www.habitatbrla.org 225-927-6651
Regions served: 2, 4
Builds and renovates houses in partnership with the community, providing opportunities for low-income families to purchase their own homes, build community and improve their lives.
1104 HOPE Ministries of Baton Rouge
www.hopebr.org 225-355-0702
Regions served: All regions
HOPE prevents homelessness and promotes self-sufficiency and dignity through a client choice food pantry, workforce and financial literacy training, and poverty awareness community education.
1027 Innocence Project New Orleans
www.ip-no.org 504-943-1902
Regions served: All regions
IPNO frees innocent people sentenced to life in prison and those serving unjust sentences at no cost to clients or their families.
1100 Iris Domestic Violence Center
www.stopdv.org 225-389-3001
Regions served: 2, 3, 4
Offers free emergency shelter, crisis intervention, case management, referrals, children's advocacy, legal advocacy, counseling, and transportation to survivors of domestic violence.
1138 Louisiana Alliance of Children's Advocacy Centers
www.lacacs.org 504-715-4955
Regions served: All regions
A non-profit supporting Louisiana’s 14 Child Advocacy Centers, providing coordinated responses to child abuse victims and ensuring access to high-quality care for all children.
1032 Louisiana Center for the Blind
www.louisianacenter.org 318-251-2891
Regions served: All regions
The Louisiana Center for the Blind empowers blind people through innovative training and mentorship, fostering independence and confidence, and opening doors to opportunity across Louisiana.
1082 Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault, Inc.
www.lafasa.org 225-372-8995
Regions served: All regions
LaFASA serves statewide sexual assault crisis centers through education, professional training, technical assistance and community engagement, resulting in safer, healthier, stronger, and better-informed communities.
1141 NAMI Southeast Louisiana
www.namisela.org 985-626-6538
Regions served: 1, 3
NAMI Southeast Louisiana provides free education, advocacy, support and resources to individuals living with a mental illness and their family members.
1134 Open Health Care Clinic
www.ohcc.org 225-655-6422
Regions served: 2, 3, 5
Provides physical and mental health care and social services for every phase of a person's life regardless of insurance or income status.
1139 Ronald McDonald House Charities of Arkansas & North Louisiana, Inc.
www.rmhcar-nla.org 318-840-9100
Regions served: All regions
Ronald McDonald House Shreveport-Bossier provides families of hospitalized children with a free private suite, meals, snacks, play spaces, daily essentials, and a supportive community.
1049 Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana
www.no-hunger.org 504-734-1322
Regions served: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6
Second Harvest Food Bank leads the fight against hunger and builds food security in South Louisiana by providing food access, advocacy, education, and disaster response.
1050 Sexual Trauma Awareness and Response (STAR) Center
www.star.ngo 1-855-435-7827
Regions served: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7
STAR provides free advocacy, therapy, and legal services to sexual assault survivors in 15 parishes. Youth education, training, and technical assistance throughout Louisiana also provided.