St. Joseph’s Altar at Ozanam Inn on March 17, 18, & 19, 2012

St Patricks's Church is busy planning and gathering donations for this year's altar. We hope that you will make an opportunity to come and visit/view the St. Joseph's Altar here at Ozanam Inn. For the duration of the St Joseph's Altar at Ozanam Inn, donations in support of Ozanam Inn will be accepted and greatly appreciated to help Ozanam in it's mission. Read More »

LaQuinta Inns Mattress Drop 28 February 2012.

"LaQuinta Inns & Suites plans to break the Guinness World Record for the world's largest human mattress domino drop. The hotel chain will attempt to break the record at 9:00am on Feb28, 2012 as part of a team-building exercise during its annual conference, to be held in New Orleans from February 26 thru 29, 2012 at the NO Convention Center. LaQuinta intends to assist the City of New Orleans in… Read More »

Toy Donations Needed for Forgotten Angels Event

WE NEED YOU! Each year, the Ozanam Inn collects 250 toys and warm winter clothing for the homeless children of New Orleans as part of their annual Forgotten Angels event. This year, The Ritz-Carlton and Marriott Hotels of New Orleans (under the umbrella of the Marriott Business Council) are making it easy to donate new, unwrapped toys and new warm winter clothes. Fourteen (14) hotels in the metropolitan area are placing… Read More »

The Day AFTER Thanksgiving at Ozanam Inn

Many churches and organizations serve lunch on Thanksgiving Day. But Ozanam Inn serves more than two hundred meals three times on Thanksgiving, on the day after Thanksgiving and throughout the year.  [219,000 meals each year] The Dinning Room has been made ready for the 200+ guest who will come to Ozanam Inn for a hot lunch on the Day AFTER Thanksgiving     Men and women [and sometimes children] wait in line for a hot lunch.… Read More »

The Ozanam Inn 31st Annual Century Club Dinner/Gala

The Ozanam Inn annual Century Club Diner/Gala to be held November 18th, 2011 Omni Royal Orleans Hotel 621 St Louis St. New Orleans, LA Dr and Mrs Jack A. Andonie MD will be our honorary chair couple. New Orleans celebrated Jazz Vocalist BANU GIBSON with her Hot Jazz Band will be featured.  Also, music by the John Mahoney Quartet. It will include a Patron Party (6:00-6:45) and silent auction followed… Read More »

HARPS FOR HUMANITY

One of the Tulane medical students who helps run the Tulane student clinic at the Inn is also a harpist.  Her name is Marissa Black.  She and her harp teacher, Mrs Cathy Anderson, along with their harp ensemble, which consists of local high school and elementary school students are planning to perform a harp concert at the Inn on December18, 2011 from 7:30 to 9:00pm.  There will be 6 to… Read More »

Mom fueled Dr. Andonie’s desire to help poor

From the Clarion Herald November 1, 2011 Dr.  Jack Andonie has a special affinity for the poor in New Orleans. He  said he could directly relate to their plight, recalling his father  abandoning his mother and siblings when he was a child growing up on  Dryades Street. His  yen to help others whether through medicine or his Catholic faith has  led him to work with pre-Cana conferences, the Serra Club,… Read More »

Don’t let the homeless be invisible

A guest column by Michael J. Groetsch - nola.com While leaving Immaculate Conception Church on Baronne Street recently, I  became dismayed at how desensitized we have become to the plight of  homeless people who wander aimlessly on the streets of New Orleans. As I  walked in stride with a blind beggar dressed in tattered clothing and  holding a cardboard sign and metal cup, I noticed how many well-dressed  pedestrians avoided… Read More »

And now the rest of the story…

There has been publicity lately about registered sex offender living at Ozanam Inn.  The Executive Director of the Inn, Deacon "G" DiGiovanni has assured us that the Inn does not allow sex offenders to live at the Inn in our transitional housing program, in our staff or any of the other programs offered.Why then does the recent publicity state that the New Orleans Police Dept. shows 3 sex offenders who… Read More »

Tulane University School of Medicine – Ozanam Inn Programs Overview

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