Tag Archives: non-profits

The House That Chicken Built

October 5, 2009 – 5:45 pm

To atone for its creation of the Double Down Sandwich, KFC-parent conglomerate and Louisville-based grease-merchant Yum! Brands has awarded grants totaling $7,800 to six area non-profit organizations as part of Operation Brightside’s “NatureScape” program. Although none of these programs include provisions for emergency bypass surgery, the money is being used to fund, among other things, vegetable gardens [...]

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21c Pajama Party Raises Money, Weirdness

July 13, 2009 – 8:28 pm

Whenever I hear the words “art philanthropy,” I immediately think of a bunch of rich people wearing pajamas and discussing something they read in the Sunday New York Times “Styles” section at 21c Museum. And, wouldn’t ye know it, that’s exactly what happened! From a press release: The International Contemporary Art Foundation’s (ICAF) 4th Annual [...]

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YouthBuild Receives Grant, Hope

July 1, 2009 – 2:17 pm

The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded a nearly $700,000 grant to YouthBuild Louisville, an organization that aids unemployed, undereducated and generally disadvantaged teens and twenty-somethings in the River City. The grant will allow the organization, which provides job training and high school education to disadvantaged 16- to 24-year-olds, to operate for another two years. [...]

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