Spring 2024 Grant Awards
| Organization | Grant Amount | Grant Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| 2X Game Changers Louisville, KY | $25,000 | Operating support for the Future Healers program, which engages children (ages 4-13) and their parents in activities with UofL medical students to focus on healing. |
| Bethany Haven Bardstown, KY | $85,406 | Support for the Street Outreach Coordinator and Housing Specialist positions to assist homeless persons in Bardstown/Nelson County. |
| CASA of the River Region Louisville, KY | $100,000 | Operating support for the mission of CASA of the River Region, with a particular emphasis on new volunteer recruitment. CASA provides free, volunteer advocacy support for children who are in the family court system. |
| Catholic Charities of Louisville Louisville, KY | $250,000 | Funding for the Building a Brighter Future Campaign, which will construct a new, comprehensive Catholic Charities Services Center in downtown Louisville, bringingall services into one location. |
| Dare to Care Louisville, KY | $100,000 | Support for the Kids Cafe program, which provides free, nutritious meals for children in after-school and summer programs throughout Jefferson, Shelby, Bullitt and Clark Counties. |
| Kentucky Community and Technical College Foundation Elizabethtown, KY | $250,000 | Support for the Home for Hope campaign, a new 48-unit housing complex on the Elizabethtown Community and Technical College campus to be built and administered by Family Scholar House for single parents attending ECTC. |
| Family Community Clinic Louisville, KY | $50,000 | Funding for the Primary Care Program, which emphasizes preventative care and healthy lifestyles to reduce the need for emergency care among FCC clients, who are all uninsured or underinsured. |
| Flaget Memorial Hospital Bardstown, KY | $426,370 | To purchase a new 3D mammography machine which incorporates the latest AI technology. |
| Gilda’s Club Kentuckiana Louisville, KY | $150,000 | Support for two new Gilda's Club locations: one in the West End of downtown Louisville (to expand their services) and a new location in Clark County, Indiana, the first Gilda's Club in southern Indiana. |
| Goodwill Industries of Kentucky Louisville, KY | $50,000 | To support the Work Ready Certificate program, a job-readiness program designed to empower individuals who face multiple barriers to obtaining gainful employment, giving them the knowledge and skills they need to reintegrate into the workforce. |
| Harbor House Louisville, KY | $98,280 | Funding for the transportation program which brings people from throughout Jefferson County and surrounding counties to the Intergenerational Center at Harbor House. |
| Home of the Innocents Louisville, KY | $250,000 | To support the "We'll Be the Change" campaign, which will build new facilities to expand the Complex Care Center for children and young adults with complex medical conditions that require 24-hour care. |
| Jewish Family & Career Services Louisville, KY | $90,159 | Support for a new Care Navigator for elder care coordination with the Klein Older Adult Services program. This pilot program will help seniors navigate their care, from doctor's appointments to grocery shopping to general coordination of services, enabling seniors to age at home. |
| Jewish Community of Louisville Louisville, KY | $100,000 | To increase access to, and enhance programming for, older adults to live well and thrive. Specifically, this grant will help the JCC offer needs-based assistance for JCC membership, hire an Aging Well Coordinator, and purchase a new van for home-to-center transportation. |
| Junior Achievement of Kentuckiana Louisville, KY | $10,000 | To support the RiseUp Summer Success Initiative, which provides financial literacy and workforce readiness and learning experiences for K-12 students as well as young adults 18-25 transitioning from school to work. |
| La Casita Center Louisville, KY | $75,000 | Funding for operating and capacity building of La Casita Center, which enhances the well-being of Louisville's Latinx community through education, empowerment, advocacy and wellness. |
| LHOME Louisville, KY | $50,000 | To support financial education and coaching for undercapitalized and under-banked small businesses, especially those owned by persons in marginalized communities in Louisville. |
| Lincoln Foundation Louisville, KY | $75,000 | Support for outside-of-school college readiness programs for youth from under-resourced communities throughout the Greater Louisville area. Programming supports students still in high school as well as new services to help students succeed in college. |
| New Directions Housing Corporation Louisville, KY | $75,000 | Operating support for the I Rise program, which enables families receiving HUD assistance to achieve economic independence through education, job training, counseling and other social services. |
| River Heritage Conservancy Jeffersonville, IN | $100,000 | Support for Origin Park in southern Indiana, specifically to complete construction documentation for accessible trails in the Buttonbush Woods trail system, plus funding for organizational capacity building. |
| Rotary Fund of Louisville Louisville, KY | $100,000 | For the Rotary West Louisville Housing Initiative, a program that removes barriers to mortgage capital for prospective first-time homebuyers in nine Louisville neighborhoods negatively impacted by decades of redlining lending practices. |
| Sisters of Charity of Nazareth Bardstown, KY | $75,000 | Support for the Lay Mission Volunteer Program, which assists econonmically disadvantaged people throughout Kentucky. This grant will specifically help people in Nelson County with crucial home repairs to ensure stable, safe and healthy living conditions. |
| Visually Impaired Preschool Services Louisville, KY | $75,000 | Funding for the Early Childhood Intervention Program, which delivers in-home services to infants and toddlers with visual impairments or blindness. VIPS is the only provider of this type of service for the state of Kentucky. |
| Volunteers of America Louisville, KY | $75,000 | Operating support for the Freedom House for pregnant and parenting women who are in treatment for substance abuse disorder. This grant will support the expansion of this residential program to include low-intensity treatment, in addition to their existing high-intensity program. |
| Youth Build Louisville, KY | $250,000 | Funding for the new Smoketown Community Center, which will provide a safe space for neighborhood residents to host events, plus it will house several youth-oriented programs. |