Advocate and Engster Show Cover LANO Annual Conference

Popular Baton Rouge radio journalist Jim Engster interviewed LANO VP of Public Policy, Dr. Alison Neustrom, on Monday, Oct. 19, prior to Tuesday's conference start. Neustrom spoke about the benefits of professional development and information sharing among nonprofits in tough financial times.

Click here to listen to the interview. [Neustrom was the second guest of the show.]

On Wednesday, Oct. 21, Baton Rouge newspaper The Advocate Capital News Bureau reporter Sarah Chacko attended several conference sessions and the keynote address by Geoffrey Canada, founder of the Harlem Children's Zone.

From Chacko's story:

"Nonprofit organizations in the state have to start taking action to help Louisiana’s children in the absence of government support, the leader of an organization that helped transform a New York City neighborhood said Wednesday.

"Geoffrey Canada, president of the Harlem Children’s Zone, said he used to think there was a plan to save America’s children from poverty and poor education.

“'There is no plan,' he told more than 450 nonprofit leaders and employees. 'If Louisiana’s children are going to be saved, you are going to have to do it.'”

Read the full story here.

More news and photos from the 2009 Annual Conference to be posted soon.