Metro United Way

When you see all the impact Metro United Way makes in our community.

💡 Free play is essential to a child's development, and we're working to ensure all kids have access to quality outdoor spaces. We started at La Casita Center and are now building onto the Sankofa Sanctuary in Chickasaw Park!

💛 Play Cousins Collective 🤸🏾‍♀️ Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest 🌳 Community Coordinated Child Care (4-C)

Here's a great summary of what we do and how you can get involved!

We want to thank East End Living - Best Version Media for sharing our mission and impact!

📣 WE'RE HIRING! 📣 Do you have a passion for policy? We need an experienced professional to join our policy team and help us build a better commUNITY for ALL! ➡️ Apply today >> https://loom.ly/8C-Qs4I

Happy 70th Birthday to Phil Bond, our legendary Chief Financial Officer! We celebrated him this week with a 70s themed party! He was honored with proclamations from state and local governments. Today is Phillip Bond Day in Louisville! Help us wish him a very happy birthday 🥳🎈🎂

Our Southern Indiana Housing Initiative helps people manage their financial goals to become homeowners, and invests in repairs and safety upgrades to keep current homeowners in their homes. 🏡

Thank you to New Directions Housing Corporation and Salvation Army of Southern Indiana for their help to make this program a success! This is just one part of our effort to support strong households throughout the Greater Louisville region.

Shoutout to Heaven Hill Brands' intern team that gave back with us today! 👏👏 They filled 400 backpacks and 50 teacher kits, and stocked Dr. William H. Perry Elementary School's resource closet with 2,000 folders, 2,000 notebooks, pencils, erasers, markers and colored pencils, and dry erase markers!

So grateful to have Louisville Water Company join us this morning for a backpack drive to help every child in our commUNITY get ready for school! 📚🎒✏️

Every day, we help families on the brink of financial devastation transform their lives. With more education, stable housing, and ongoing support - their futures are bright! ✨ Read Alexis' story: https://loom.ly/ckTPO58

Siemer Institute

We are beyond grateful for the generous and ongoing support from these companies, which are truly pillars in our commUNITY! Congratulations for being recognized as Partners in Philanthropy large company honorees by Louisville Business First. Our impact is greater thanks to you all! 👏🤝👏

Brown-Forman Brands, Caesars Southern Indiana, Humana and the Humana Foundation, LG&E and KU, Republic Bank and the Republic Bank Foundation

THANK YOU to the employees at Elevance Health who purchased 180 laundry kits and put them together last week! We had a great turnout of folks who came down to help decorate and assemble the bags.

"Metro United Way has mastered the art of making volunteering easy and fun!" said Megan Williams, who volunteered at the Greatest Give Back. 🙌 We can't wait to see the impact we make together in the next 6 months! 💪

Help us wish a very Happy Birthday to Terrence Carter! 🥳🎈 Terrence is our Director of Human Resources and has been on our team for three years. HR can be a tough job, but Terrence does it with care and compassion for his colleagues. He also helps innovate policies that benefit our team and advance equity in our organization! Thank you for all that you do, Terrence! Have a GREAT day!!

Shouldn't the people we trust with our most precious make a living wage? A third of all full-time early learning teaching staff in Louisville have a TOTAL family income under $30,000.

We're highlighting challenges this vital sector faces in the just-released Louisville Early Learning Workforce Study. We MUST take action to make conditions better so our kids can thrive >> https://loom.ly/K4nAXP4

Community Coordinated Child Care (4-C) Child Care Services Association

Metro United Way thanks this team from the Whitney M. Young Jr. Job Corps Center for helping our Little Free Library program! 📚📖 They built 6 new libraries to replace ones that got worn out from 9 years in the elements. Some of these young people will join our partners from a local carpenters union to install the libraries. We are so grateful for this community support! 🤝

Job Corps

Happy happy Birthday to Courtney Kaelin!! 🎉🎂 Courtney is our Manager of Databases and has been on our team for about 2 years now. Even as a newer employee, she's engaged with our work beyond her job duties, volunteering at events and advocating in Frankfort. Her positive attitude and dedication to our values does not go unnoticed. We're so glad to have you on the team, Courtney! Hope you have an amazing day!

We want to congratulate our Chief Development Officer, Jeremy Jarvi, on this recognition, and echo his words in these trying times:
"In the current political landscape, it's nice to receive this recognition. I appreciate you, Morgan McGarvey! Let's all reach for kindness, understanding, and respect and be united to move our communities, and nation forward."

In our community and our country, we use our voices to vote and settle our political differences peacefully and democratically. We are deeply saddened by today’s events. We are praying for former President Trump and all impacted today and hope we can all work together to make a better world for us all.

💡 This is exciting and important work Metro United Way is doing alongside several partners, guided by the expertise of KentuckianaWorks.

We're so proud of these young scholars from the DuBois Academy! Through our Young Men United program, they've completed a year of college prep and mentorship as high school juniors. And it's just the beginning of their journey! The YMU program will support them through college graduation to make sure they have what they need to succeed. The future is bright 😎

🥳 Our own Elliott Kelly, Jr. will give this year's keynote address at the 8th Annual West Louisville Youth Empowerment Summit presented by Louisville Central Community Centers, Inc! Elliott recently joined our team as the Senior Manager of Equitable Community and he is already a huge asset to our organization. The event is Friday, July 19. Go to LCCC's page for more info!

Elliott Kelly, Jr. serves as the Senior Manager of Equitable Communities at Metro United Way. In this role, he is responsible for engaging with and providing support to numerous organizations across Louisville. In addition to his role at Metro United Way, Elliott enjoys mentoring youth, coaching wrestling, public speaking, poetry, and photography. As a young emerging leader in our community, Elliott is well aware of the power of uplifting youth voices and the importances of expression through advocacy. On Friday, July 19th, 2024, Elliott will serve as the keynote speaker at the 8th Annual West Louisville Youth Empowerment Summit presented by LCCC.

Tune in as Elliott joins us on Russell on the Move 2.0 tomorrow at 9:00 AM on WLLV 101.9FM to discuss the 2024 8th Annual Youth Empowerment Summit and the importance of uplifting youth voices around policy issues.

Help us wish Kimberly Broecker a very Happy Birthday!! 🎂🎈 Kimberly is our Developmental Screening Manager and has been on our team for nearly 13 years! Having first-hand experience, she understands the importance of developmental screening for children under 5 to ensure they can reach their fullest potential! She is a helping hand, listening ear, and reassuring voice for parents and caregivers of young children across our region. Thank you for everything you do, Kimberly! We hope you have the best day!

Metro United Way is seeking an expert to ensure our programs and investments are data-driven to make the most impact! APPLY TODAY >> https://loom.ly/8C-Qs4I

Congratulations to Play Cousins Collective on the unveiling of the Sankofa Sanctuary at Chickasaw Park! This is just the start! 🤸🏿☀️ Metro United Way is investing $175,000 into this play area and bringing natural playground experts from Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest and Community Coordinated Child Care (4-C) to add more features in the coming months! Stay tuned!

Chickasaw Park unveils new nature play area in Louisville Chickasaw Park has a new nature play area, unveiled by city officials on Monday.

Let's hear it for our own Melody Murphy, just named to Louisville Business First's 20 People to Know in advertising, PR and marketing! 🎉 Melody is our Chief Brand Officer and has been on our marketing team for 12 years, earning the chief position in 2020. She cares deeply about our work and leads her team with empathy and encouragement. We are so proud of her!
https://loom.ly/YG67oJo

Sending warm birthday wishes to Gabrielle Benfield! Gabrielle is our Manager of Equity and Impact Operations. She makes sure meetings and events run smoothly and we’re so thankful for her dedication! Hope you have a great birthday weekend, Gabrielle! 🥳🎈

Let's hear it for Groovy Griffin!! ✌️👏👏 He's this month's Team Values Superstar! Griffin is our Director of Technology Services and is ALWAYS there when his colleagues need him, whether it's a tech issue or loading boxes for a volunteer project! His positive attitude is contagious and we are so thankful to have Griffin on our team. Congrats, Griffin, keep grooving!

Shoutout to these outstanding young people from TECH-Nique's leadership program, The Fold, who taught us about AI today. We learned what AI is capable of, how it learns and grows, and the inherit biases present in AI-run tools. You can learn from them, too! >> https://loom.ly/vnZT6Zk