Grantees & Initiatives
Capital Area United Way’s collective impact includes community initiatives and services that focus on areas of Health, Basic Needs, Education, and Economic Mobility. CAUW also provides funding through various competitive grants: Project Grants, Innovation Grants, Basic Needs Grants, and Community Responsiveness Grants.
Below you will find our current Community Initiatives and current Grant Funding Cycles:
Initiatives
Bank On Baton Rouge
SingleCare
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA)
United Way 2-1-1
United We Feed
United4Vets
2025-2026 Basic Needs Grants
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Baton Rouge
Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank
The Salvation Army
Christian Outreach Center of Baton Rouge
Saint Vincent de Paul
The Life of a Single Mom
YMCA of the Capital Area
Youth Oasis
The Safety Place
Goodwill Industries of Southeast Louisiana
Volunteers of America South Central Louisiana
Mission Heart
Gardere Initiative
Start Corporation
Capital Area Family Violence Intervention Center
Baton Rouge Community College Foundation
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
Sexual Trauma Awareness and Response Center
2022 - 2025 Innovation Grantees
Adult Education, Adult Literacy Advocates of Greater Baton Rouge
AMIkids Baton Rouge Vocational Services, AMIKIDS Inc.
Amped Ecosystem at Broadmoor High School, Humanities Amped
Child Advocacy Services - CASA/Children's Advocacy Center, Child Advocacy Services
Child Development Center, The Emerge Center (Baton Rouge Speech and Hearing Foundation)
College & Career Coaching for Low-Income Students, Career Compass of Louisiana
Conscious Discipline Implementation as a Social-Emotional Learning Tool, Pointe Coupee Early Childhood Coalition Inc.
Employment Services, Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Baton Rouge
Goodwill Reintegration Program, Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Louisiana Inc.
Integrated Behavioral Health, Family Service of Greater Baton Rouge
Kids' Orchestra, Kids Orchestra Inc.
Long Term Substance Abuse Treatment for Indigent Adults, O'Brien House
Pediatric Behavioral Health, The Emerge Center (Baton Rouge Speech and Hearing Foundation)
Project Learn, Boys and Girls Club of Metro Louisiana
Reilly Center-Excellence Accelerated, Volunteers of America South Central Louisiana
Sexual Trauma Therapy, Sexual Trauma Awareness and Response (STAR) Center
STEM Baton Rouge, Center for the Innovative Training of Youth Inc
The Way to Work, HOPE Ministries
UREC Youth Development Programs, Urban Restoration Enhancement Corporation
Youth City Lab's Youth Leadership Incubator, Front Yard Bikes
YWCA Early Head Start Program, YWCA Greater Baton Rouge
*funding begins July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2025
2025-2026 Ascension Parish Grants
The Life Of A Single Mom, Ascension Single Mom Stabilization Program
The Arc of East Ascension, Summer Shine Summer Camp
Kids’ Orchestra, Kids’ Orchestra 2025-2026 Afterschool Programming & Career Development
FOAM, Project Family Build
Capital Area Corporate Recycling Counsel, Computers for Louisiana Families