When Arlene Meraux founded the Meraux Foundation, she asked her niece, Rita, to manage it with a simple guiding principle: to ensure that the land resources that Arlene transferred to the foundation would be used to improve the quality of life in St. Bernard.

Over the past 10 years, our nonprofit’s current board has been realizing that vision through a strategy focused on land use, education, environment, economic development, arts and culture, and community resilience.