Organization

Northwest Louisiana Community Development Corporation

Shreveport, LA
Mission

Our mission is to improve the lives of the underserved in our communities by ensuring they have adequate training programs and services available to enhance their quality of life.

Northwest Louisiana Community Development Corporation
PO box 37314
Shreveport, LA 71133
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All Programs

COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES

Program Locations

PO BOX 37314
SHREVEPORT, LA 71133
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Sensible Alternatives to Valuable Economic Empowerment (S.A.V.E.), is a financial literacy program geared toward adults, this consist of eleven training modules that cover basic financial topics. Topics include a description of deposit and credit services offered by financial institutions, how to choose the correct institution and maintaining a checking account, spending plans, the importance of saving, how to obtain and use their credit effectively, and the basics of building or repairing credit. Children Acquiring Savings for Their Harvest (C.A.S.H.) is a financial literacy program geared toward youth between the ages of 12-20 years of age. Youth are taught on their level the basics of handling their money and finances, including how to create positive relationships with financial institutions.

Program Locations

4725 GREENWOOD RD STE 36
Shreveport, LA 71109
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Building Blocks to Your Future Home provides general instruction to increase your knowledge and build new skills in the area of homeownership. Subjects covered include homeownership readiness and affordability, money and credit management, types of properties and financing available, purchase, mortgage, and closing processes, home maintenance and financial management after you have bought your home. We also offer information on predatory lending and how to avoid the traps.

Program Locations

4725 GREENWOOD RD STE 36
Shreveport, LA 71109
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Community Assisting is provided through Northwest Louisiana CDC as a hand up and not a hand out. Applicant will come and fill out application and provide delinquent bill. Then the board will review information and applicant will be informed of results. If applicant is not approved through our organization, they would then be referred to other agencies that can assist in their endeavors.

Program Locations

4725 GREENWOOD RD STE 36
Shreveport, LA 71109
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Community Service Resources Listing our organization has inquired a book of resources listings of available city, parish, regional and some state-wide services available to the community within the Ark-La-Tex. These services cover a broad spectrum of needs on such topics as health, education, family sufficiency, child care, employment, substance abuse, and crisis intervention.

Program Locations

4725 GREENWOOD RD STE 36
Shreveport, LA 71109
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The home will serve boys in Louisiana who need a safe, secure, and stable home. This will include those who are homeless, neglected, in danger of violence or drug and sexual abuse. The home will also receive boys from DCFS and the Caddo Parish Juvenile Justice System.

Goods & Services

NWLA Community Development Center

The NWLA Community Development Center is seeking donations of any type of computer, robotic, or music and video production supplies including old computers, flash drives, HDMI cords, printers, etc.

Volunteer

NWLA Community Development Center

We need volunteer instructors in our youth technology center. The center offers coding using SCRATCH, Python, C, HTML, JavaScript, and several others. The center offers robotics using Lego Mindstorms, and we also offer music and video production. Center is open to kids 6-18 years old.