The Town Center at Raphael Village is located at 530 Jackson Avenue and serves as the hub for our urban life-sharing village.
In addition to administrative offices, the Town Center includes classrooms for pre-employment and vocational training, and artist studios where Guild members practice and develop an artisanal trade. It also includes a community cafe serving breakfast and lunch, a catering kitchen that provides both training and employment opportunities for Guild members. The grounds and gardens surrounding the Town Center will be part of an ongoing edible landscape curriculum and provide vegetables and herbs for the café.
Join us at the Dragonfly Café for breakfast or lunch Thursday–Sunday!
Town Center Gallery
Raphael Village’s Capital Campaign
With your generous support we raised over 1.4 million dollars! We cannot thank each and everyone one of you who helped make this dream a reality. On October 20th, Raphael Village held its Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at the new Town Center and danced the afternoon away! We were joined by Mayor LaToya Cantrell, Councilman Jay Banks, our amazing donors, community members, co-workers, parents, Guild members and students.
Thank you to all of our donors:
David Fennelly and Carlos Sanchez
David Schulingkamp
John and Stacey Olson
John and Denny Melton
Jacqueline Case and Mark Redding
Camphill Foundation
The Gustaf W. McIlhenny Foundation
Malin Construction
Robert Schisler
Dr. Keith and Mrs. Mary Perrin
Logan Camphill Initiative Fund
Levin, Fishbein, Sedran & Berman
Ella West Freeman Foundation
Kevin and Cheryl Slane
Ruth U. Fertel Foundation
Whitney Bank
Consolidated Electrical Distributors, Inc.
Bonita Day and Matthew Redding
Eugenie and Joseph Jones Family Foundation
Fore! Kids Foundation, Inc
Robert and Virginia Nelson
Zurich North America
John Bose Consulting Engineers
Sharon Jacobs and Leonard Davis
Antoinette Alonzo
Dr. Terry Johnson and Dr. Jim Cronin
Elaine and Ben Haney
Valerie Davis
Drs. Eric Simon and Cathy Lazarus
Linda and Thomas Westfeldt, Jr.
MAPP Charitable Fund
Robert Wollman and Gretchen Case
The Paul and Joan Hinnenkamp Giving Fund
Kerry and Khristina Miller
Kirschman Foundation
Paulette R. Irons
The Azby Fund
Angus Cooper II
Carolyn Monteith and Terry Sheeley
Anthony Dunbar and Nancy Shoemaker
Cox Communications, Inc
LaCaze Moss &Company CPA’s, LLC
Patrick Berthelot-Nunez and Ernie Nunez
Cynthia Macdonald
Michael Zimmerman and Teresa Toulouse
Mount Olive Lutheran Church & Preschool
Brent and Gena Morgan
Catherine McIntire
Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Hales
Forgiven Ministries
John and Lisa Futrell
Marjorie McKeithen
Suzanne Mestayer
James Stoyanoff
Joan Magner
Jones Family Trust
Michael Tongis
Crescent Title
Michael Carbine and Elizabeth McAshan
Elizabeth Senecal
Rosewood Services LLC
William G Black
Jody Chong
Lauren Underwood
Arin Assero
Gerald and Gina Karcher
Miles Baldwin
Peggy Mendoza
Carol Michel
Judy Wollman
Richard L. Oshee and Patricia DeMichele
Erin Bernard
Martha “Marcy” Jordy
Michael Rubenstein
Peggy Mitts and Timothy Scott
Jonnie Lu Kleinpeter
Tinka Jordy
“Since the beginning of the pandemic we have struggled to find a way to mimic the community that Raphael Village offers our son. The isolation of some of our members since the pandemic began exacerbates their limited social skills and emphasizes how unique and important the sense of community and involvement that Raphael Village provides are. The new town center will provide a wonderful place for their sense of community.”
—Mark Redding
Located in the historic Irish Channel Neighborhood
Raphael Village
530 Jackson Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70130