Northshore Community Foundation

Leslie Landry, Susan Bonnett Bourgeois, Carla Mouton and Jeanne Martin.

Northshore Community Foundation

Members of the Northshore Community Foundation team spend their days making life on the Northshore better for all of us. While the Foundation’s mission to enhance our quality of life remains consistent, how the all-women staff makes that happen is as varied as they are.

Carla Mouton, the true core of the team, has been a part of the Foundation since it opened its doors in 2007. Her warm smile and gracious attitude are her greatest assets, and she serves the strangers who walk into Northshare off the street as kindly and professionally as she does the fundholders and members who drive the work of the Foundation. Carla’s desire to take care of people and make a difference led her to this calling, and we are all better because of her tireless effort.

Jeanne Martin is the creative genius behind every picture, social media post and story about philanthropy through the Foundation. Her passion to help others, coupled with her irreplaceable wit, makes the brand and perception of the Foundation exactly what it should be: authentic, impactful and incredibly approachable—just like her. Before Jeanne joined the team, the Foundation did important work and achieved great things, but sadly, no one knew about it. Her ability to take seemingly complicated details and make them understandable, interesting and joyful is a real gift, and that enriches the effect of the work in immeasurable ways.

Leslie Landry, the most recent addition to the NCF team, brought a fresh perspective, unwavering professionalism and home-grown Northshore street cred to the Foundation four years ago. Her growing up in Covington, mothering a young family and having management and fundraising credentials a mile long add depth and capacity to the Foundation that serve it well, now and into the future. Her knowledge of the goodness of how things “used to be” makes her that much more determined to ensure it remains wonderful for generations to come. The legacy-building aspect of the Foundation’s work fits perfectly with her personal desire to contribute to the community that has been her family’s home forever.

Susan Bonnett Bourgeois leads the team and has spent her 15 years with the Foundation “speaking things into being,” as a board member noted. In a region still reeling with the impact of Hurricane Katrina in 2006, she started with “a good idea” and enlisted a dream-team board that partnered with her and founded the NCF. With a resolute drive and unapologetic boldness, she will cast a vision and share it with anyone who will listen. Her ease of communicating convinces others to want to make a difference as well. That unavoidable momentum propels the Foundation to this day.

Together, this team is unstoppable, and that is very good for the Northshore. Their talent and hard work have enabled the Foundation to move over $60 million dollars for the greater good, and there is no end in sight. As the business of philanthropy goes, there is no better group of people to get it done.

The Northshore Community Foundation is located in Northshare at 807 N. Columbia St. in Covington. 893-8757, NorthshoreFoundation.org.