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Causes: Art Museums, Arts & Culture, Cultural & Ethnic Awareness
Mission: To educate, stimulate and provide opportunities and programs that develop models for rebuidling New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in an environmentally and culturaly sustainable manner.To stimulate collectors to donate works to the Foundation in order to make the donations accessible to broad base of audiences in collecting institutions that may not otherwise be able to increase, augment or develop cultural heritage collections. To encourage audience appreciation and understanding of objects of cultural heritage by supporting and facilitating the exchange of works of art and artifacts between donors and collecting institutions, and thereby making a greater range of objects available for public view. To strengthen existing museum staff and to train new ones, and to provide a vehicle for the compilation and exchange of information about objects of cultural heritage available and needed for sharing, including but not limited to documentation, organization and cataloging of collections.