We hope that you will financially support PFLAG by becoming a paid member. We did have an increase in paid members for 2016, but the percentage of persons who are paid members compared to the number who receive our newsletter is very low. It is becoming more difficult for us to keep up our various ways of supporting the community without additional funds.
Our chapter is proud to be a part of the PFLAG National organization. With local affiliates in more than 500 communities across the United States and abroad and over 200,000 members, PFLAG is the largest grassroots-based family organization of its kind. It is a nonprofit organization and is not affiliated with any religious or political institutions.
Some of what we do is listed below.
Some of what we do is listed below.
- Scholarship Program for LGBTQ post-secondary students
- Host monthly support group meetings in New Orleans and on the Northshore
- Host a weekly radio program on local radio station WHIV 102.3 FM
- Make presentations to area high schools, colleges and universities informing them of the resources PFLAG has available to them and addressing issues of Bullying in schools
- Monthly online chapter newsletter - the BANNER
- Volunteered and staffed the registration tent at the NO/AIDS Walk each year
- Partnered with Walgreens and Johnson & Johnson at PRIDE. Distributed information about Safe Schools and coupons good at Walgreens. Our chapter earned $1,000 from Johnson & Johnson for our participation.
- Support Gay-Straight Alliances at individual schools when asked
- Collaborated with other area organizations in the Community Coalition
- Hosted the PFLAG Southern Regional Conference in the fall of 2016.