We're getting excited about our 37th Annual Gala.
The Gala will be held on Thursday, October 12th at the Crazy Lobster Bar & Grill,
overlooking the beautiful and Mighty Mississippi River!

This year, we are thrilled to honor and recognize the Deans of the LSU and Tulane Schools and Medicine and the LSU School of Dentistry

Steve Nelson, M.D., Dean of LSU School of Medicine
L. Lee Hamm, M.D., Dean of Tulane School of Medicine
Henry A. Gremillion, DDS, Dean of LSU School of Dentistry

We also honor and acknowledge the students of these programs who spend their weekends working with our clients, and other community residents,
through in-house clinics for basic medical health-care and dental health-care.
Over 500 individuals are seen, annually, by the students and physicians overseeing these programs.

We're also excited about our annual Restaurant Raffle! 
$100 gift certificate to each of these WORLD CLASS New Orleans area Restaruants, a $1,000 value!
Acme Oyster House, Andrea's, Besh Rest. Group, Brigtsen's, Cafe Degas, Creole Cuisine Concepts, 
Dickie Brennan & Co., Galatoire's, Ralph Brennan Group, Vincent's Italian Cuisine
$25 per ticket or $100 for 5 tickets.

Click the "Donate Today" button or here to purchase tickets to Gala, Restaurant Raffle or both!

We are excited to, once again, be hosting the Annual Forgotten Angels Christmas Party. This year's 17th annual party will be held on Tuesday, December 23rd. The Forgotten Angels party is held each year for children who are living in homeless shelters. It's a day filled with joy and cheer, a day for them to just be kids, not homeless kids. Please join us in celebrating the season of giving by offering these children this special day. Please bring unwrapped gifts for ages 0-15 to Ozanam Inn, 843 Camp St. or drop off at one of the participating Walgreen's stores (see attached list). Thank you and God bless.

Each year our Board of Directors selects an outstanding couple or individual in the community to serve as honorary Century Club Chairperson.

32nd Annual Century Club Gala:
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Hyatt Regency New Orleans
602 Loyola Avenue
New Orleans, LA

Ozanam Inn is honored to present Mr. Paul Leaman as our honorary chairperson for our 2012 Century Club Gala. Go to our "Century Club" page to learn more about this wonderful event in support of Ozanam Inn.

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.

"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 the implementation of its Ten Year Plan to end Homelessness. LaQuinta will provide 840 new Simmons mattresses for this project to be used in the drop. The mattresses will then be donated to local Homeless Services Agencies following the event. Ozanam Inn will send 5 volunteer workers and one or two staff to help in the unloading, set up, the drop and the eventual removal of the mattresses once the event is completed. LaQuinta has agreed to provide Ozanam Inn with 96 of the new mattresses to use as needed, once the event is completed.

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 donation boxes on their driveways to make the art of giving easier.The last day to donate items is Friday, December 9th (18 days away)!

The Forgotten Angel’s event will take place on Saturday, December 10, 2011 (12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.; St. Maria Goretti Church and Community Center; 7300 Crowder Boulevard , New Orleans , LA ).  Children and their parents are bused in from shelters across the city.  Chefs Vinny Russo (The Ritz-Carlton, New Orleans), Mark Quitney (New Orleans Marriott), Robert Mitchell (New Orleans Marriott at the Convention Center) and Chuck Subra (Renaissance New Orleans Arts Hotel) will be on hand to prepare a warm holiday meal for the children while volunteers from The Ritz-Carlton and Marriott hotels will serve food, play with the children, take holiday photos and distribute wrapped holiday gifts. We hear that Santa will be making a special appearance!

WE NEED YOU to help to promote this important toy and clothing drive.  Please schedule Ozanam Inn Administrator Clarence J. Adams for an interview!

DROP-OFF LOCATIONS:

French Quarter

The Ritz-Carlton, New Orleans ( 921 Canal Street )

New Orleans Marriott ( 555 Canal Street )

CBD

Courtyard New Orleans Downtown ( 123 St. Charles Avenue )

JW Marriott New Orleans ( 614 Canal Street )

Renaissance New Orleans Pere Marquette Hotel (817 Common Street)

WAREHOUSE DISTRICT

Courtyard New Orleans Downtown/Convention Center (300 Julia Street)

New Orleans Mariott at the Convention Center (859 Convention Center Boulevard)

SpringHill Suites New Orleans Downtown (301 St. Joseph Street)

Renaissance New Orleans Arts Hotel (Warehouse District: 700 Tchoupitoulas Street)

Residence Inn New Orleans Downtown (St Joseph Street)

METAIRIE, LOUISIANA

Residence Inn New Orleans Metairie (3 Galleria Boulevard)

Courtyard New Orleans Metairie ( 2 Galleria Boulevard)

MANDEVILLE, LOUISIANA

Courtyard New Orleans Covington/Mandeville (101 Northpark Boulevard)

Residence Inn New Orleans Covington/Mandeville (101 Park Place Boulevard)

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 12 harps that perform at a time.  Admission is free; however, the event will serve as a fund raiser for the Inn.

Checks can be made out to "Ozanam Inn for Forgotten Angels" and sent to Ozanam Inn, P.O.Box 30565, New Orleans, La. 70190-0565. Gifts of new tovsand new clothes for babies through young teenagers can be brought to the Inn at 843 Camp St. from 6 a.m. – 10 p.m. Food and drinks to help with the meal is also welcome. Call Clarence Adams 504.523.1184 or 504.723.8149 for more information.