Coming Together for Community Service
Tiger Life and the Black Student-Athlete Association want to express our deepest gratitude for the time, energy, and dedication provided during the 2025 MLK Day of Service. LSU Athletics stepped up and showed their willingness to lend a helping hand to make a significant impact on the Baton Rouge community!
LSU Athletic Department Staff and Student-Athletes we were able to support seven nonprofits across Baton Rouge in their missions to address critical needs, including combating food insecurity, beautifying senior homes and abandoned properties, empowering young girls, and providing care and support to youth facing serious illnesses.
Louisiana Key Academy has a mission to serve the community at large, to educate and remediate children with dyslexia in an evidence based curriculum and to stand as an excellent model and resource for other schools and communities.
Cat Haven is making great efforts to lead The Greater Baton Rouge area in becoming a no-kill community for cats and kittens by providing care, shelter, and adoption services, as well as advocating for routine spaying and neutering for population control. Cat Haven began in 1999 as an all-volunteer grassroots group in response to a community need for comprehensive rescue, foster, and adoption services for cats and kittens.
The Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank is a nonprofit organization that solicits, procures, inventories, and warehouses donated food and other products. This food is then distributed to a variety of community agencies such as pantries, meal sites, homes, shelters, and soup kitchens that serve the people in need.
Girls on the Run inspires girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running. Evidence shows that participating in Girls on the Run transforms lives by unleashing the confidence and unstoppable strength that every girl possesses.
The Walls Project leads programs, events, and alliances that work to break through and tear down the societal walls that discourage or prevent people from living safe, healthy, and prosperous lives. The Walls Project offers a bold vision for what's possible in a community, creating pathways for economic prosperity; lifetime learning; creative expression; and healthy living for all, particularly for those impacted by poverty.
With the state’s largest team of pediatric specialists, Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital meets the unique needs of children and families, providing comprehensive, highest quality healthcare for children of all ages. We have specialists on campus 24/7, and our hospital features five operating rooms and three procedural rooms.
