Project Butterfly New Orleans

We are reimagining civic life together!

On September 9, Project Butterfly New Orleans joined the Henry Luce Foundation and The Juror Project for Something in Common: Reimagine Civic Life, Together, a national listening series that brings young people and adults together to explore civic life and the future of their communities.

The conversation created space for adults, organizations, and institutions to listen directly to young people and consider how to better support their leadership and participation in civic life.

We are especially proud of Shania Wi******er for representing Project Butterfly New Orleans on the panel! Shania joined fellow young leaders to contribute her perspective to this important conversation, reflecting her commitment to advocacy, mental health, and community-centered leadership.

Thank you to the Henry Luce Foundation and The Juror Project for creating this opportunity, and to our fellow participating organizations, ALAS, Amplify Justice / Liberation Collective, Daughters Beyond Incarceration, and Sông Community Development Corporation, for helping elevate the voices and experiences of young New Orleanians.

We’re excited to be part of Something in Common: Reimagine Civic Life, Together on September 9.

Young leaders connected to organizations across New Orleans will come together to share how they experience civic life, how they are participating in their communities, and what they want adults, organizations, and institutions to understand about the future they are helping shape.

Our amazing butterfly, Shania, will be a featured youth speaker.
Join us Wednesday, September 9 at 6:00 PM at The Building, 1437 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

RSVP: SomethingInCommonNOLA.eventbrite.com

What a joy to celebrate our Butterflies in Training at the College Track New Orleans Launch to College Ceremony! 🦋

Several of our young people were acknowledged for their college acceptances to institutions including Middlebury College and San Francisco Bay University. Watching them be celebrated for their hard work, persistence, and next steps reminded us why this work matters so deeply.

We are also proud to celebrate our Executive Director, Michele Seymour, who was honored with the Hero Award. This award recognizes a local leader who demonstrates outstanding service to the community, opens opportunities, mentors students, and helps scholars stay persistent on the path to college, career, and lifelong success.

Thank you, College Track New Orleans, for creating such a powerful space to honor young people, community, and the village that helps make these milestones possible.

Our butterflies are taking flight. 🦋✨

Thank you to everyone who donated so far! As we wind down GiveNOLA Day, we wanted to share this final highlight: We recently culminated our 15th year of programming at College Track New Orleans with our Tea Party celebration, honoring 15 butterflies-in-training. 🦋

The day included a custom tea lab with Dr. Amina Desselle of Antidoteshop.co and our signature flower ceremony, where each butterfly-in-training was celebrated for their personality, gifts, and growth.

This is what Project Butterfly New Orleans does.

We create space for young people to be seen.
We celebrate who they are.
We pour into who they are becoming.

This GiveNOLA Day, help us keep this beloved work blooming.

Donate here:
https://www.givenola.org/projectbutterflynola or the link in our bio!

We are proud to share that our Executive Director, Michele Seymour, has been selected as this year’s Hero Award recipient at College Track New Orleans’ () Launch to College Graduation Ceremony.

This recognition reflects the heart of Project Butterfly’s work: showing up consistently, building trust over time, and creating culturally rooted spaces where young people feel seen, affirmed, and celebrated.

Awards help us honor the work.

Community investment helps us sustain it.

This GiveNOLA Day, please support Project Butterfly New Orleans, a Black-led, community-rooted nonprofit helping butterflies-in-training rediscover the power within and prepare to lead in their lives and communities.

Give today through midnight at givenola.org/projectbutterflynola or the link in our bio. 🦋

This year, Project Butterfly has served 45 butterflies-in-training across two programming sites:

🦋 College Track New Orleans
🦋 Daughters Beyond Incarceration

Our butterflies-in-training are building confidence, strengthening identity, deepening cultural pride, practicing leadership, and rediscovering the power within.

Today is GiveNOLA Day, and every gift helps us continue creating spaces where young people feel seen, affirmed, and celebrated.

Help us reach $5,000 today:
https://www.givenola.org/projectbutterflynola or visit the link in our bio!

Today is GiveNOLA Day! 🦋

Project Butterfly New Orleans is raising $5,000 to continue our 15+ year partnership with College Track New Orleans.

For 15 years, our butterflies-in-training have gathered in a space rooted in African-centered rites of passage, sisterhood, culture, identity, healing, joy, leadership, and becoming.

This year, we have served 45 butterflies-in-training across College Track New Orleans and Daughters Beyond Incarceration, and we are asking our community to help us keep this work blooming.

Give today and pour into our butterflies:
https://www.givenola.org/organization/projectbutterflynola

Donation link is in our bio! 🦋

RitesOfPassage

We’re expanding our impact.

In partnership with , something new is coming to make accessing resources easier for families across our community.

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