The Slidell Heritage Festival has 12 board members. Our board oversees all aspects of the festival, including vendors, entertainment, live music, and the overall event operations.
This year’s chosen charities that will benefit from our Fundraising efforts:
The Slidell Police Association:
The Association was formed in 2005 to assist Slidell Police Officers and the City of Slidell citizens by bridging the gap between the police and citizens. The organization holds charity events such as Cook-Offs and Toys from Cops. They also help police officers and their families with tragic events.
Boy Scouts Cypress District:
Scouts BSA is where youth develop outdoor survival skills, self-confidence, and ethics through youth-planned activities with increased attention to service, community engagement, and leadership. The scout slogan is Do a Good Turn Daily. Some of these good turns have included serving at special events honoring veterans and law enforcement or conducting service projects such as beautifying a school, recycling, and rebuilding a nature trail.
East St Tammany Rainbow Child Care Center, Inc:
We are a non-profit United Way Partner Agency that has invested over 4.8 million hours of early learning in more than 7,000 children between the ages of 1 and 5 since opening its doors 42 years ago. It was initiated to address the need for affordable childcare. The mission is to strengthen working families with a quality child care program.
The Hospice House is a home designed to welcome terminally ill patients enrolled in a preferred hospice program with the Hospice Foundation, providing a place to stay during their final days at no cost. Our home is owned and operated by the Hospice Foundation of the South. We are a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. Caregivers are in our home 24 hours a day to provide care for the residents. The preferred hospice programs recommend people who, because of circumstances in their lives, need a place to live while living out their final days. Family members are encouraged to visit with their loved ones.
Free NOLA
All Free NOLA outreach work is rooted in the principle and practice of Relational Evangelism. It simply means the team comes alongside people, right where they are, offering no judgment, condemnation, or expectation, just relationship. The Free NOLA team specifically focuses on building relationships with people trapped in the sex industry, to show the love of the Father to them in a tangible way by bringing them free gifts of love.
Free NOLA is committed to intersecting the lives of trained team members with workers in strip clubs, massage parlors, motels, or brothels. By doing this consistently over time, relationships of trust are developed so that encouragement and a better way of life can be presented. Over 95% of those trapped in the sex industry did not imagine they would be doing this type of work. However, many do not have the life or job skills to do anything else. And, typically, they do not have a network of people to help them envision or embrace a better life. That’s where the Free NOLA team steps in.
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Presenters of the Slidell Heritage Festival are Rotary Club of Slidell, and Rotary Club of Slidell North Shore, The New Orleans Advocate/St. Tammany Farmer, and the City of Slidell.
