April 2025Impact
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2024 Impact Report

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2025 Community Impact Awards

2025 IMMIES Awards!

We had a fabulous morning at our 2025 Community Impact Awards celebrating the incredible partners who make our work possible, and more impactful! Congratulations to the winners of our Immies awards:

  • Sullivan Service Award: Dr. William Stout
  • Metro United Way Lifetime Achievement Award: Kent & Kathy Oyler
  • Community Cornerstone Award: YUM! Brands
  • Game Changer Award: Centro Latino
  • Changing the Narrative Award: Blueprint 502 (formerly YouthBuild Louisville)
  • Using Your Voice Award: Coalition for the Homeless
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Impact Tracker Sections

There’s nothing more important than ensuring our community’s children have what they need to thrive. LEARN MORE

  • This year, we successfully launched networking events for our Youth Success partners in collaboration with In With Out. Attendees shared their enthusiasm, with one expressing gratitude for the chance to connect and explore collaborative opportunities. Another participant enthusiastically urged us to continue these valuable gatherings. Our last two events were hosted at The Spot and 300-for-300, where we had the wonderful opportunity to tour The Spot and discover the incredible services they offer to youth. At 300-for-300, we learned about their heartfelt mission to promote joy and healing for Black girls in our community.

     

  • The Ready for K Alliance continues to support our early childhood education providers around their mental health needs, as well as the families they serve. Through a partnership with Play Cousins Collective, local centers received information and support around topics such as dealing with grief, managing burnout, and self-care & healing. Families that attend these centers have had opportunities to engage together with a focus on social-emotional learning and how it’s important for children and adults both in the classroom and at home
  • Our Ages & Stages Developmental Screening “Hub” recently released six new videos for Spanish speaking families available on our kindergarten readiness activities page here: https://metrounitedway.org/learning-together-growing-together/
  • Since our last impact tracker, 75 new children have been enrolled in the Ages & Stages Developmental Screening “Hub.”
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When families have what they need, they can break cycles of poverty and work toward a better tomorrow for future generations and our entire community. LEARN MORE

  • In the month of March, our 2-1-1 help referral line fielded 922 calls from members of our community. The top request categories were housing and shelter, followed by help with utilities.
  • In the month of February, United Community:
  • Metro United Way has the privilege of serving as backbone support of The Housing Alliance of Louisville (HAL), formerly known as the Eviction Prevention Work Group. This is a collective of representatives from over 40 agencies across the Louisville area who work towards housing justice. The HAL exists to address barriers to housing stability through funding, policy, and support of direct service providers. By elevating the work of various local agencies as they work towards housing justice, housing access is increased for all community members.
    • The HAL focuses on three areas of housing: houselessness, eviction prevention, and affordable housing. Through monthly meetings and regular convenings of subcommittees, MUW provides support around housing policy and advocacy, securing alternative funding for rental assistance, support for direct service providers, and telling the stories of people who are unstably housed.
    • A major focus of the month of March was preparing for the first-ever Housing Advocacy Week, occurring the week of April 14th.
    • In partnership with the Coalition for the Homeless, MUW will help over 35 agencies call on Metro Council and Mayor Greenberg with one collective voice regarding the 2026 fiscal year budget.
  • For the last 11 years, we have been delighted to partner with the Siemer Institute, a national initiative in 79 communities which supports the financial and housing stability of families to promote children’s academic success. In the recently released 2024 Siemer Institute Impact Report, one of our local service providers, the Salvation Army of Southern Indiana, was featured for their work with a participant named Alexis. Click here to read Alexis’ uplifting success story empowered by her family advocate, Alecha Redmond.
  • The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program just wrapped up the 2025 tax season through a network of 125 volunteers providing free tax filing assistance services at 15 sites throughout our community. We are deeply appreciative of the volunteers and the coordinating service provider, the Louisville Asset Building Coalition, and we look forward to sharing the impact of their valuable efforts in next month’s report.
  • Metro United Way was proud to partner with the Louisville Free Public Library and several other community organizations on Saturday, April 12 for Starting Fresh, a re-entry resource fair for individuals with prior involvement in the justice system. This event, held at the Southwest Regional library branch, attracted 330 individuals interested in learning about opportunities to pursue productive and fulfilling lives within our community.
  • Nearly 450 Bullitt County students are currently experiencing homelessness. Here’s how we’re helping them and others through a critical investment from Ford Philanthropy (read article HERE):

View Stories around our Strong Households priority

We envision the Greater Louisville region as a place where zip code doesn’t determine destiny and everyone has the opportunity to grow into their full potential. LEARN MORE

  • Norton Healthcare chaplains recently participated in a Racial Wealth Gap Simulation, deepening their understanding of historical policy impacts on wealth distribution and community outcomes.
  • Our United Neighborhoods initiative has been participating in a meaningful collaboration with a group of Southern Indiana stakeholders, specifically around the issue of food access in the Claysburg community. We recently conducted surveys in the community and received over 150 responses from the community. We met to discuss the data and contextualize it in partnership with community members and were able to discuss specific solutions that can be immediately and meaningfully impactful.
  • The Young Men United Initiative, in partnership with Sowing Seeds With Faith, was able to provide 5 young men from W.E.B DuBois Academy with an opportunity to tour various Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCU’s) during the JCPS Spring Break. They were able to visit the following schools: North Carolina A&T State University, North Carolina Central University, Winston-Salem State University, Johnson C. Smith University, and Shaw University.
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