Thriving Kids

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

• Ensure access to prenatal care that addresses disparities in birth outcomes and maternal health
  • MUW Programming: Ready for K Alliance
• Increase availability of high-quality, affordable care, early childhood learning opportunities, and individualized supports for families
  • MUW Programming: Ages & Stages Questionnaires (ASQ), Ready for K Alliance
• Enhance accessibility to out-of-school time programming, academic supports, and interventions for youth and families to ensure they are connected to their community
  • MUW Programming: Youth Success Network, Young Men United

Strong Households

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.

• Advocate for greater access to safe, affordable, and stable housing across all income levels
  • MUW Programming: Siemer Institute, Southern Indiana Housing Initiative, Louisville Lead Safe Strategic Plan, Housing Alliance Louisville
• Ensure households have resources they need to not only achieve safety and stability, but to thrive and improve their economic mobility
  • MUW Programming: YALift!, Bank on Louisville, VITA, Workforce Financial Coaching, Housing Alliance Louisville
• Provide framework and support for social service organizations so that they have resources to provide quality, timely care to the community members they serve
  • MUW Programming: United Community, 211, CORE Home Repair Hub, Mission Marketplace

Equitable Community

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.

• Implement equitable, common sense criminal justice reforms that prevent at-risk individuals from becoming justice-involved and promote successful reentry from the justice system
  • MUW Programming: H.O.P.E United Fellowship
• Address the history of structural and institutional policies that have disproportionately affected perpetuated cycles of generational poverty
  • MUW Programming: Fund BLACK Founders, United Neighborhoods, Racial Wealth Gap Simulation, Black Love Philanthropic Partnership, H.O.P.E United Fellowship, Louisville Support for Immigrant Coalition
• Promote civic and voter engagement to ensure that all voices are heard in the decision-making processes that shape our shared future
  • MUW Programming: Black L.O.V.E. (Live, Own, Vote, Excel) Philanthropic Partnership

Nonprofit Sector

Empowering nonprofits is crucial to their ability to meet critical needs and solve our community’s most pressing challenges.

• Promote tax policy that fuels community solutions through nonprofits and encourages philanthropic giving
• Support laws and executive actions that help build stronger communities by strengthening the nonprofit sector and its workforce