Lorna Bourg Explained

Lorna Bourg (;) is an American charity director who is President and Executive Director of the Southern Mutual Help Association (SMHA).^[1]

Biography

She graduated from St. Joseph's Academy and received a Master's degree in Psychology from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, from Harvard University's JFK School of Government in the Sr. Executive's Program, and studied at University of Massachusetts Amherst as well as the University of Wisconsin's Extension Program Community Development.^[2]

Bourg co-founded the Southern Mutual Help Association in 1969.^[3]

She designed and implemented the Building Rural Communities Program for Economic Development. She designed, and implemented a loan fund for low-income rural homeowners. In 1997, she helped design and implement a pilot programs of the Rural Home Loan Partnership.^[4]

Awards

• 1992 MacArthur Fellows Program^[5]
• Fannie Mae Foundation James A. Johnson Fellow

External links

• SMHA blog
• "COMMUNITY INVESTMENT", PBS, December 20, 2004
• "Trying to (Re)build a Better South", Foundation News & Commentary, March/April 2006
• “KATRINA COTTAGE:”, Vermilion Faith Community of Care

Notes and References

1. http://www.southernmutualhelp.org/SMHAStaff.cfm SMHA Staff
2. Web site: Louisiana Public Square . 2010-05-12 . 2010-02-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100204101730/http://www.lpb.org/programs/LApublicsquare/topic008.html . dead .
3. News: March is Women's History Month: Lorna Bourg . 21 May 2021 . Lafayette Daily Advertiser . 22 March 2006. .
4. Web site: Lorna Bourg, Executive Director, Fannie Mae Foundation. spoke.com.
5. Web site: Lorna Bourg, Rural Development Leader, Class of 1992 . MacArthur Fellows Program . 21 May 2021.