Blueprint Investment Fund is a 501(c)(3), non profit economic development corporation who serve Low-income, disadvantaged, minority and women entrepreneurs with financial and technical resources. The mission of the blueprint investment fund is to alleviate poverty, chronic unemployment, and economic inequality in America's urban and rural centers.  Blueprint investment funding accomplish this mission by providing private [...]

In thinking about what I love about the Arts Council, their many exciting online initiatives and why you should love them too; I’ve mostly been thinking about why I love New Orleans art and how art is so fundamental to our culture.  Mayor Moon Landrieu understood that when he appointed the Cultural Resources Committee which [...]

TurboSquid, a New Orleans based 3D modeling company, is hosting a Checkmate Tools contest until March 31st 2012.  The challenge is to create a tool that automatically inspects a 3D model within 3ds Max, then generates a detailed report outlining how well the model meets the CheckMate Pro standard.  CheckMate Pro is the industry’s first standard for [...]

Learning to code can be a daunting task. Sure there are books, online tutorials, and videos but what if that’s not enough? Sometimes having one on one time with a teacher can help you work through problems you run across or questions you may have. Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene hopes this is true by putting on a [...]

While the Code for Americas fellows are in New Orleans working with city government on building a specialized system for citizens to use, they also plan on having a civic hackathon from Feb 24th and Feb 25th 2012.  A hackathon is an event where people can get together and use technology and their collective skills [...]