Connecting with the World and Our Neighbors

The Crescent River Pilots and their families direct their purpose to charitable causes helping the people and environments in the parishes they serve.

For centuries seamen have used a compass to direct them home and to far away ports throughout the world. In our modern age GPS satellite and radar are employed to plot courses and chart depths in high tech detail. The compass is a technical tool of old yet its meaning and purpose is certain and constant. It will guide. The Crescent River Pilots have adopted the compass as a symbol for their charity but instead of the curvature and gravitational pull of the earth, what leads this compass is people. The Crescent River Pilots’ Foundation is guided by the direction of peoples’ needs. It is their job as local captains to see transportation on the river carried out efficiently and safely but it is every pilot’s hope that as a Foundation they can do more for the people in the parishes where they live and work.

- Kristen Strickland