Learn About the Foundation
Baton Rouge General Foundation is a non-profit organization that raises funds to support programs, technology, education, services and research for Baton Rouge General Medical Center. Our goal is to ensure that our community hospital continues to deliver the highest quality healthcare available to our patients and their families, as it has done for more than a century.
Click here to get our monthly e-newsletter, information on upcoming events and more to see the impact of philanthropy at Baton Rouge General Medical Center.
Foundation Team
Erik Showalter, CFRE - President
Erin Harnsongkram - Foundation Development Officer, Individual & Employee
Giving Officer
Claire Shirley - Foundation Operations Manager
Amy Lucito - Financial Aid Counselor
Darla Scardina - Foundation Grant Writer
Ashley Smith - Foundation Coordinator
To connect with the Foundation team, email Foundation@BRGeneral.org.
Board of Governors
Chairman - Bart Phillips, BLP Holdings
Vice Chairman - Kathy Victorian, Healthy Blue
Treasurer - Jim Purgerson, Citizens Bank & Trust
Secretary - Lucie Kantrow, Bernhard Capital
Members
Leslie Berg - Lee Michaels Fine Jewelry
Rick Bond, Immediate Past Chair - Bond Construction Co. LLC
Mark Goodson - CSRS Inc.
Scott Kirkpatrick - Pelican State Partners
Shane Kirkpatrick - GROUP Contractors
Mimi Singer Lee, PhD - b1Bank
Meg Mahoney - Methanex Corp.
Phyllis McLaurin - Retired, JP Morgan Chase; Community Volunteer
Keith O’Neill - Culinary & Nutrition Solutions at HHS Inc.
Ken Perret - BRG Auxiliary Board Chair
Jordan Tremblay - Shell
Padma Vatsavai - Vinformatix
Eric Waechter - Merrill Lynch
Kendall Johnson - Ex officio member, BRG Chief Financial Officer
Edgardo Tenreiro - Ex officio member, BRG President and CEO
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BATON ROUGE, La. – A group of 50 pediatric burn survivors from the area are at Baton Rouge General’s Camp Catahoula, a free, week-long camp held ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. - The Baton Rouge General Foundation recently secured a large art donation from the estate of renowned artist Mari Lyons, who left ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. - The Baton Rouge General Foundation recently announced Shane Kirkpatrick as the newest member of its Board of Governors, elected to ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. -- Baton Rouge General’s Pennington Cancer Center will celebrate the arrival of its new treatment technology with a ribbon cutting ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. – A group of 40 pediatric burn survivors will head to Baton Rouge General’s Camp Catahoula Saturday, July 16. The week-long camp, ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. – The Baton Rouge General Foundation will host a yoga fundraiser on Saturday, April 30, with funds supporting cancer patients facing ...
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BATON ROUGE, LA. – A group of families grateful to the care teams in Baton Rouge General’s COVID intensive care unit (ICU) have come together to raise ...
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BATON ROUGE, La.-- Baton Rouge General will host “The Big Adventure,” a city-wide father-daughter scavenger hunt, on March 27 at 2 p.m., gathering ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. - The Baton Rouge General Foundation recently announced Eric J. Waechter as the newest member of its Board of Governors, elected to ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. – The Baton Rouge General Foundation is teaming up with City Group Hospitality (CGH) for a special Restaurant Week, with 10% of ...
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