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| Arisa Forest 2021-2022 Community Service Co-Chairs |
Tori Howze 2021-2022 Community Service Co-Chairs |
The aim of the community service committee is to coordinate community service efforts for the organization consistent with the mission of the organization and the priorities of the Board. As Co-Chairs for the Community Service Committee, we are excited to let everyone know about our upcoming community service events.
For more information, please email committee chair Arisa Forest and Tori Howze
If you are interested in joining the community service committee, please be sure to select it when renewing your membership. You may also email us at anytime!
Upcoming Events
- February 23 2022 – Black History Month 1st Grade Class Virtual Reading –
Join the GNO Martinet Community Service Committee for 1st Grade Black History Virtual Reading! We are seeking volunteers to read stories/books to Ms. Jasmine Roussell’s 1st grade class at Arthur Ashe Charter School. Date and Time: February 23 2022, at 2:00 pm-2:50 pm Click here to volunteer.
Past Events
- January 18, 2021 – For MILK Day of Service, Martinet is partnering with Grace at the Greenlight. Grace at the Greenlight is a non-profit organization that feeds the homeless and reconnects the homeless population with family. will assist in serving the food into plates, packing the plates into bags, and distributing bags to the homeless. Volunteers are encouraged to dress comfortably and are required to wear a mask. Volunteers may sign up here.
- August 15-16, 2020 – Martinet will hold a virtual community impact day where members of the community can obtain free legal information from local practitioner
- January 25, 2020 – Continuing its celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the community service committee adopted residents of St. Margaret’s at Mercy. Martinet members fulfilled wish lists for 22 residents, delivered the items on January 25, 2020, and spend a few hours getting to know the residents and playing bingo.
- January 11, 2020 – In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. the Greater New Orleans Louis A. Martinet Society participated in the City of New Orleans Annual Martin Luther King March..
- November 2, 2019, the community service committee volunteered at the Crescent City Café, where breakfast was served to New Orleans’ homeless and low-income residents.
- On June 10, 2019 – June 14, 2019, Martinet and Dillard University Pre-Law Program held a week-long mock trial camp at Dillard University for 7th and 8th grade students. The event was a huge success.
- On October 31, 2018, the Greater New Orleans Louis A. Martinet Society participated in the City of Love Church’s Trunk or Treat Event where Martinet members distributed candy to neighborhood children and their families in a safe environment.
- Crescent City Cafe During the 2017-2018 year, the Community Service Committee partnered with Tulane and Loyola’s BLSA chapters to serve breakfast to homeless and low-income residents of New Orleans at the Crescent City Cafe. The mission of the Crescent City Cafe is to serve breakfast to New Orleans’ homeless and low-income residents with dignity and to connect young adults together in service to our community. Crescent City Cafe desires to demonstrate the love of God through actions and words and to bring awareness to the issue of homelessness. Founded in February 2009, the Cafe simulates a restaurant, complete with breakfast specials that change each time. The volunteer servers take orders from guests and run them back to the kitchen, where other volunteers are at the helm — cooking up the orders and plating the food.
- July 16, August 6, & August 20: Coffee Talk Mondays – Martinet invites all BLSA members and law students in the New Orleans area to join in informal conversations with Martinet practicing attorneys to connect and get tough career questions answered.
[Download Flyer]. - July 16 – August 30: Esquire Closet Drive – Drop Off Locations: Civil District Court and Orleans Public Defenders Office @ Municipal Court House
- December 13, 2017: Annual Toy Drive during our Holiday Party. Please bring a new, unwrapped toy to donate for our annual toy drive during our holiday party, being held at Café Reconcile from 6-9pm! If you prefer to make a monetary donation to the toy drive, please make your check out to the “New Orleans Martinet Legal Foundation, Inc.” Toys will be distributed to children from the Treme and surrounding neighborhoods at “Toys from Troy,” presented by the Trombone Shorty Foundation, at Whole Foods (300 N. Broad St) on Friday, December 22 at 3pm.