The Picard Center operates under the belief that the more we know about the world around us, the more we can make a difference.

From one-time cash donations and naming opportunities to bequests and gift annuities, your generosity provides a continuing source of stability for the Picard Center’s research and mission of improving Louisiana by focusing on its children.

Through high-quality applied research and rigorous program evaluations, the Picard Center continuously makes vital discoveries that critically affect decision-making and public policy for Louisiana’s education, health care, quality of life and workforce realms.

Your gifts of financial support will assist us in maintaining a margin of excellence to recruit and retain the finest research staff and provide critical funding for pilot programs across the state.

If you have a vested interest in the well-being of Louisiana’s children, whether it is discovering research-driven solutions to decrease the childhood obesity rate in Louisiana or finding answers to lift the increasing number of children in Louisiana out of poverty, you’ve come to the right place.

Click on the link below to discover ways you can help and change the lives of thousands of Louisiana’s children through high-quality data decision making.