Over 24 years of projects and civic improvements have yielded a tremendous number of articles about the YLC. A few of these articles are listed below.

Young Leadership Council going strong after 25 years
www.nola.com, November 10, 2011
For 25 years, the Young Leadership Council has been adding to the sights, sounds and quality of life of New Orleans. From Wednesday at the Square concerts in Lafayette Square to artistically painted miniature streetcars and the dazzling Crescent City Connection lights, the group has worked to make the city brighter and better...(read more).

New Orleans bicyclist enjoy improved conditions
www.nola.com, November 6, 2011
Six years ago, bicycling from Canal Street to Poland Avenue would have been a ride fraught with challenges, including dodging traffic and avoiding cavernous potholes...(read more).

FREE Movie Night with ‘Mr. Okra’ in the NOMA Sculpture Garden
www.examiner.com, Tuesday, October 4, 2011
The Young Leadership Council, One Book One New Orleans, and the New Orleans Film Society present a Movie Night in the NOMA Sculpture Garden . The evening gets started with the documentary short Mr. Okra , about the iconic food vendor known throughout the city, and is followed by the hour-long local documentary From the Mouthpiece on Back , about the local To Be Continued Brass Band's post-Katrina struggles...(read more). 

Mr. Okra documentary to screen Wednesday at free outdoor NOMA event
www.nola.com, Tuesday, October 4, 2011
"Mr. Okra," the documentary short about the New Orleans character and one-of-a-kind food vendor, is finally coming home...(read more).

Katrina book chosen for reading project
www.nola.com, Wednesday, September, 2011
The book "Nine Lives" by New York write Dan Baum has been chosen for a New Orleans reading project. The reading project, called "One Book One New Orleans," is in its seventh year...(read more).

Louisiana Business Spotlight
Check out VP of Development, Matt Treuting, talk about all things YLC as well as chatting about our 25th Role Model Awards Gala...(watch interview).

Interview with Cox Connexions
VP of Membership, Derrick Rogers, had the opportunity to talk with Brad Grundmeyer back in August about the 25th YLC Role Model Awards Gala...(watch interview).

New Orlean's Jazz Institute to take over YLC's Project Prodigy Camp
www.wwltv.com, April 27, 2011
The Young Leadership Council has announced that Project Prodigy Summer Music Camp, its long-running community program, will be integrated into the University of New Orleans-based New Orleans Jazz Institute this summer...(read more).

Green House Effect
The YLC's inaugural Le Vert Tour showcases environmentally friendly homes
www.bestofneworleans.com, March 15, 2011
Joel Ross, an architect at the firm John C. Williams, has found the key to something rare in New Orleana: consistently low energy bills...(read more).

YLC Executive Director, Amy Collins, sits-in as a guest with Jeff Crouere
www.wgso.com, February 14, 2011
Amy Collins Executive Director with Young Leadership Council. She talked about a new program in four public schools in New Orleans. It partners young professional with 8th graders. It is called the "power ties", career awareness program...(read more).

Young professionals consortium pitching in to help New Orleans Hornets hit attendance benchmark
www.nola.com, January 4, 2011
With six home games remaining before the Jan. 31 cutoff to reach attendance benchmarks, and three of those against upper echelon NBA teams, the man who oversees operation of New Orleans Arena said Tuesday he's optimistic the Hornets will be successful...(read more).

Young professionals join forces to keep Hornets
www.wwl.com, January 4, 2011
In the continuing effort to boost attendance at Hornets games, the Young Leadership Council, the NextGen Council and the Urban League are offering a two games for one ticket deal...(read more).

"Proud to Call it Home" campaign is back
www.wwl.com, November 10, 2010
It is truly a story of what is old is new again. Sixteen years after launching the "Proud to Call it Home" campaign, the Young Leadership Council is bringing it back...(read more).

Young Leadership Council to relaunch 'Proud to Call it Home' slogan
www.nola.com, November 10, 2010
When civic, business and political leaders unveiled the "Proud to Call It Home" campaign, their primary goal was to erase longstanding negative perceptions that locals had about New Orleans...(read more).

Saints Super Bowl Streetcar Returns Home
www.nola.com, September 9, 2010
Adams and Reese attorneys in the firm's New Orleans office sponsored a wager between the Young Leadership Council in New Orleans and a similar group based out of Indianapolis, called Indy Hub...(read more).

One Book, One New Orleans pick's Louis Armstrong's 1954 memoir
www.nola.com, August 7, 2010
ONE book. ONE New Orleans. What a ONEderful world is the theme of the sixth annual One Book One New Orleans community-wide reading project, whose 2010 title will be announced...(read more).

Sips In The City
noladefender.com, July 30, 2010
Chef Anthony Spizale grabs a tray of orange cocktails off the bar and begins serving it to the 100 people crowding in the Rib Room Bar. He easily swings the tray...(read more)

Young professionals demand a true leader in New Orleans' next Mayor
wwltv.com, November 12, 2009
Young professional groups that have thrived in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina are hoping to have a big impact on not only the outcome of the mayoral election, but on setting the agenda for the city over the next four years... (read more)
Mayor's Job Description

One Book, One New Orleans, Two Events
NewOrleans.Com, October 12, 2009
Hopefully you've been reading Gumbo Tales for a few weeks now, savoring it chapter by chapter, little by little, like a really great meal...(read more)

One Book One New Orleans Keeps Giving Even After the Reading is Done
NewOrleans.Com, September, 2009
The official fall reading period for this year's One Book One New Orleans program began on September 1 - have you gotten started yet?...(read more)

Gambit lists YLC Wednesday at the Square as best place for free live music
Gambit, August, 2009
The decade-old Wednesday at the Square spring concert series turned Lafayette Square into one of our readers' favorite music spots...(read more)

One Book One New Orleans gets underway with gumbo tasting Wednesday
The Times-Picayune, August, 2009
One Book One New Orleans, the citywide reading initiative sponsored by the Young Leadership Council and the Literacy Alliance, gets underway with a gumbo tasting...(read more)

Business Council Leaders Honored by YLC
Business Council of New Orleans, August, 2009
Board members, John Georges and Merritt Lane, will be honored at the Young Leadership Council's 2009 Role Model Awards Gala...(read more)

Take a ride on 'A Streetcar Named Inspire'
The Times-Picayune, June, 2009
You've probably noticed those mini-streetcars around town; unlike their RTA counterparts, they go everywhere in
New Orleans...(read more)

One Book One New Orleans chooses Sara Roahen's "Gumbo Tales"
The Times-Picayune, June, 2009
The Young Leadership Council, celebrating the fifth year of its One Book One New Orleans reading initiative, announced Monday...(read more)  

College application process daunting without guidance
New Orleans CityBusiness, March, 2009
Amanda Smithson thought her days of filling out college application forms were over until she met a high school senior...(read more)

Fixing the drain
1012 Corridor Weekly, February, 2009
A BRIGHT, ENERGETIC and a self-admittedly, idealistic force is set to combat the ever frustrating brain drain...(read more)

Blake Pontchartrain: New Orleans Know-It-All
The Gambit, February, 2009
Little painted streetcars have cropped up all over town...(read more)

KABOOM playground build a blast in Central City
New Orleans CityBusiness, November, 2008
It was a crisp Saturday morning, probably the coolest yet in New Orleans this autumn. Ordinarily, I would have joined most of the city in staying...(read more)

Endowed foundations in the New Orleans area are seeing their investments erode because of the meltdown on Wall Street
The Times-Picayune, November, 2008
Individual investors aren't the only ones watching their holdings erode as Wall Street melts down...(read more)

Public Works director seeks $50.7M for streets
New Orleans CityBusiness, October, 2008
Virtually everyone living in New Orleans would agree its suffering streets are a major detriment to a first-rate quality of life in the city...(read more)

Brain Retain
New Orleans CityBusiness, September, 2008
It's no secret New Orleans has attracted young professionals since Hurricane Katrina. A Tulane University study last year pegged their total near 3,000, but the number did not...(read more)

The New Orleans 100
alldaybuffet, August, 2008
A look at the good that's happened since Katrina...(read more)

Federal Coordinator for Gulf Coast Rebuilding General Doug O'Dell Speaks at Young Leadership Council Luncheon
Office of the Press Secretary, May, 2008
New Orleans, LA - General Doug O'Dell, federal coordinator of the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Gulf Coast Rebuilding (OFC), today spoke to members of the Young Leadership Council...(read more)

Young Leadership Council rolls out N.O. streetcar art initiative
The Times-Picayune, November 2007
A fiberglass streetcar sculpture unveiled Sunday is the latest fundraising creation of the Young Leadership Council...(read more)

Come on down, YLC urges professionals
The Times-Picayune, May, 2007
In its continued effort to stem the tide of out-migration, the Young Leadership Council has embarked on an ambassadorial mission to let young professionals know that, despite the challenges of living in post-Katrina New Orleans...(read more)

Young Leadership Council volunteer hours add up
New Orleans CityBusiness, January, 2006
The Young Leadership Council today released its year-end impact figures for 2005 showing 381 YLC volunteers gave 10,103 hours to community service in the New Orleans area...(read more)

Young Leadership cleanup project targets Central City
New Orleans CityBusiness, April, 2006
Young Leadership Council volunteers cleaned up a Central City neighborhood this past weekend and will continue its Neighborhood Renaissance Project in Central City...(read more)

Next Generation Civic Groups: Community Involvement in a Post-Rotary Club Era
The Next American City, January, 2005
In 1999, a twenty-something engineer named Bill Carson faced an increasingly common decision: to stay or go...(read more)