It's New Orleans: Out To Lunch

Each year around the holidays, we shift our collective focus for a few weeks. In addition to thinking about our own needs, we think about others. We buy gifts. We listen to music that s all about unanimity. And we give to charity. For some people, this kind of largesse is not confined to the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It s what they do every day. Oji Alexander is Executive Director of a non profit organization called Home By Hand, property developers who are attempting to pull off what has till now has seemed impossible. They develop neighborhoods so that new housing is not just affordable, but stays affordable. In other words, it s an alternative to neighborhood destroying, home flipping, gentrification. Brian Kish is Executive Director of The Emeril Lagasse Foundation, the charitable wing of Emeril s culinary empire. It unites New Orleans arena of great success food with one of our fields of greatest distress education. Since 2003, The Emeril Lagasse Foundation has disbursed over 10m in grant