Common Earth Gardens has received a $50,000 grant from the Novak Family/Lift a Life Foundation. The grant will be used to pursue and secure additional acreage, and to expand current garden sites, to make more land available to more growers.
Common Earth Gardens develops and supports farmers who have resettled as refugees in urban Louisville from more agricultural regions around the world. […]
The Bakhita Empowerment Initiative team is fully staffed and celebrating! The team gathered from Louisville, Lexington, and Owensboro at the Wicked Eyed Woman in Elizabethtown for their holiday party.
Pictured from left to right, front row, are Raquell Jackson, Lexington case manager; Tamar Israel, prevention education coordinator; and Rebecca Banks, Lexington case manager. Left to right, back row: Marissa Casetllanos, director; Amy […]
Fr. John Schwartzlose, who serves on our CCL Board of Directors, recently visited St. Paul School in Pleasure Ridge Park to receive Christmas cards students there had made for residents in long-term care facilities […]
Visitation at all long-term care facilities, like nursing homes, is now open! All residents may receive visitors without any limit on the number of visitors, the length of the visit, or physical distancing. This applies to vaccinated and unvaccinated residents. If you encounter problems when visiting a loved one, please contact our Long-Term Care Ombudsman team at 502-637-9786.
Hello everyone! I’m Taylor Guy and I’m so excited to join the Catholic Charities team! I have my Masters in Social Work from University of Louisville but I’m a UK fan through and through. Serving others through empowerment and kindness is very important to me and something I strive to do everyday. Some fun facts about me: I have a precious calico kitten named Lindor Truffle (Lindi for short) and she is a bundle of curiosity […]
You can give and receive Christmas gifts with your colleagues next week and get to know each other better in the process!
Everyone is invited to bring in a wrapped gift, either handcrafted or bought, valued at $10 to $15. Please bring in a gift that represents you in some way: you love to read mysteries, you paint landscapes, you’re interested in technology, […]
WDRB followed (!) Moira Brennan making a delivery of Christmas cards to StoryPoint long-term care facility in Prospect on Wednesday. We don’t have a clip of their report, but here’s a story with photos from their website.
Moira, the volunteer coordinator for LTCO, had hoped to collect 10,000 Christmas cards for distribution to 10,000 residents in long-term care facilities across central Kentucky. Instead, she saw 28,000 cards come flooding in, […]
We really need YOU to hep staff the Christmas store where parents served by CCL will shop for their families next week.
We really need YOU to staff one of the departments in the store (toys, games, household items, etc.) or to check in and out the shoppers.
We really need YOU to sign up now right here.
Most of our shoppers […]
Our little elves are busy transforming the gym at St. Anthony into a store where families for whom we provide Christmas can shop for their gifts. This is the first time we’ve been able to invite parents in to shop for and choose the gifts they want and need for their families.
We need elves (that’s you) this week to help sort donations and stock the shelves. (Does make you an […]
