 Education
Children and adults should be equipped with a basic education in reading, writing, math, and science. They should also develop the character and relational skills necessary to be successful, contributing members of society. |
 Public
Safety & Governmental
Oversight
A healthy community provides crime prevention measures, police and prosecutorial, judicial, and correctional systems that deter crime and penalize criminal behavior. All forms of local government should be trustworthy, open to the public, independently monitored, and accountable to an informed electorate. |
 Health
A healthy community provides its citizens an environment that creates a state of positive physical, mental, spiritual and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. |
Baptist Community Ministries (BCM) is one of the largest private foundations in Louisiana with a commitment to the greater New Orleans region and to the attainment of a more healthy community for the people living here. BCM funds programs in the following zones of interest:
