Our Team

While working on Covid projects serving the homeless in New Orleans in 2020,   a lifelong passion for serving the underserved was reinvigorated, and led to the creation of Neighbors Rise.  In 2024 Mary joined The Office of Homeless Services for the City of New Orleans and continues to utilize Neighbors Rise in providing furniture and home goods for the unhoused as they transition into permanent housing.  Also as a volunteer with the NOPD Homeless Assistance Unit provides a valuable connection to the unhoused community.

A note regarding our social media: While we do have a NeighborsRise instagram account, we do not actively use social media for this program, in an effort to preserve the dignity of those we assist.

If you would like updates on current events, feel free to call Mary or email at mary.bonney@nola.gov   -        thank you for understanding.

After working 9 months at local Covid homeless shelters in 2020, we identified the need for furniture and household goods for people as they were getting housed.  As these residents were placed in permanent housing, they needed support to turn their houses into 'homes'.  The immediate and generous support from our local community was amazing, and that is when "NeighborsRise" was created, as a more formal platform to carry out this mission.

To date, we have donated thousands of pieces of furniture and homegoods to individuals in the New Orleans area, as they are transitioned from unhoused to housed.  

We have partnered with Rooms to Go, Goodwill, Second Harvest, New Orleans Medical Mission, NOPD, Grace at the Greenlight, Blankets for the Bayou, Arno, LASPCA, Big Easy Animal Rescue and an amazing array of individuals to provide furniture, food, housewares, pet food, clothing and even beds for pets.

It is an honor to be able to help others, and our gratitude to those who donate is truly felt from the bottom of our heart, to yours.  Thank you. 

*We are a registered 501c3 organization

Our mission is to provide free furniture and homegoods to individuals and families that are moving into permanent housing.

In September 2022, Rooms to Go donated two trucks of furniture to Hurricane Ida survivors in Houma and LaFourche parish.   Thank you, on behalf of the familes served, for this extraordinary donation.