Bonnycastle Homestead Association

NEIGHBORHOOD RESOURCES

Neighborhood Resources

Contact the following groups for more training and neighborhood resource opportunities.

Center for Non Profit Excellence (CNPE)
CNPE pledges to do its best to understand the needs of nonprofits and facilitate access to valuable resources. They offer a variety of educational opportunities. Also featured are trends in nonprofit organizations, best practices and ways to access funding sources.
For more information, call 315-2673 or visit their Web site at www.cnpe.org.

The Community Foundation of Louisville
The Community Foundation of Louisville is a publicly supported charity with a growing collection of more than 1,000 separate charitable funds given by local citizens and organizations to improve the quality of life in the Louisville area, both now and for future generations to come. The Community Foundation of Louisville has assets of $180 million.
Since 1997, our Community Grants Program has awarded over $2.6 million to over 150 projects which help to prevent poverty by helping children and youth become prepared to achieve economic self-sufficiency. Our grants support programs and projects that “help children help themselves” through educational, leadership, mentoring, recreational and cultural activities. Grants are awarded to projects in 16 targeted neighborhoods. For more information, please visit our web site at www.cflouisville.org or contact Alex Spoelker, Director of Grants, at alexs@cflouisville.org or 585-4649.

Just Solutions
The mission of Just Solutions is to promote non-violent ways of dealing with conflict, managing change and building community. Just Solutions is a 5O1(c)(3) tax-exempt, non-profit community mediation center, and is not affiliated with or supported by any national or local organizations. We offer many training opportunities like: Mediation, Conflict Management, Group Facilitation and Problem Solving, Graphic Facilitation, Negotiating Across Cultures, Organizational Conflict and Change. Under a contract with the Louisville Metro Department of Neighborhoods, Just Solutions offers mediation/facilitation services to individuals and neighborhood groups. Individuals or groups can contact the Department of Neighborhoods for a referral or contact Just Solution directly at 581-1961, justsolutn@aol.com or www.just-solutions.org

Leadership Louisville/Focus Louisville
In 1979 Leadership Louisville was founded "to foster interest in and promote educational, civic and social service activities." The program was started to ensure that Louisville's future leaders would be knowledgeable about community issues, well networked, and passionate about the success of the community. It has a mission of developing a diverse group of leaders to serve as catalysts for a stronger community. The Leadership Louisville program and its companion programs, Focus Louisville, The Leadership Network and The Bingham Fellows, are regarded as national models because of their continued popularity and scope. For more information, call 561-0458 or visit their Web site at www.leadershiplouisville.org.



NEIGHBORHOOD RESOURCES

Legal Aid Society
The mission of the Legal Aid Society is to ensure equal justice for all by providing free legal assistance to low-income individuals in the Louisville Metro area and fourteen surrounding counties. Under a contract with the Louisville Metro Department of Neighborhoods, Legal Aid’s Community Development Program offers free legal assistance to neighborhood associations, with priority for those groups serving the low-income community. Assistance offered includes preparation of Articles of Incorporation, bylaws and applications for tax exemption and other organizational matters. Neighborhood associations can contact the Department for Neighborhoods for a referral or contact Legal Aid’s intake department directly at 585-6980 ext. 216.

Louisville Coalition of Neighborhoods (LCON)
The Louisville Coalition of Neighborhoods is a county-wide grassroots organization of neighborhoods established to promote and ensure the physical, social, cultural, environmental and economic development of Louisville Metro neighborhoods. LCON meets at Metro United Way (334 East Broadway) in the Community Room on the 2nd floor. The monthly meetings alternate between the 2nd Tuesdays and Thursdays of the month starting at 6:00 p.m. for Dinner and the program begins at 6:30 p.m. For more information, contact Carolyn Franklin at 491-6091 or carolynf11@yahoo.com
Mary Garry at 459-6455 or garrymary@cs.com.

Making Connections Louisville
Making Connections Louisville has a simple philosophy: children do well when families do well, and families do well when they live in supportive neighborhoods. Making Connections Louisville is a partnership of local leaders, residents, faith-based organizations, government, schools and many others working to better connections to economic opportunity, social networks, and effective services so as to strengthen families and neighborhoods. Making Connections Louisville partners with local organizations for resident engagement, leadership development, research/data/information, co-investment with public sector and other resource holders, seed grants, and technical assistance. We are working in Smoketown, Shelby Park, Phoenix Hill and California. For more
information, call 502 776 6772.

Metro United Way
Metro United Way believes in helping people improve their neighborhoods by building the skills of residents to identify their community assets and needs so that they can work to improve the quality of life in their communities. Metro United Way's funding area, Strengthening Neighborhoods, realizes this vision through its Vital Neighborhoods Initiative. Since 1999, the Vital Neighborhoods Team of community volunteers has invested more than $2 million to support leadership development training, neighborhood organizing, strategic planning, and community building research and development. For more information about support for neighborhood and community development initiatives, log onto www.metrounitedway.org/CommunitySolutions/Neighborhoods.cfm or call
583-2822, ext. 251.

New Directions Neighborhood Roundtable
New Directions Neighborhood Roundtable convenes representatives from neighborhoods throughout Metro Louisville. Participants network to share activities, successes and challenges. They collaborate to tackle concerns that cross neighborhood lines. Neighborhood Roundtable recently completed its Second Annual Neighborhoods Assessment Report, a compilation of 80 problem properties in 10 neighborhoods that will be submitted to Louisville Metro officials for action. Are you interested in finding out more about the Neighborhood Roundtable? Please contact Lydia Prichard, at New Directions, 589.2272, ext. 3004.

Help Update This List
If you have other training resources to add to this list, please email the class description, date, location, host and contact information to neighborhoods@loukymetro.org.