What can $1 a day do? Make our community better!

This week, the Do Good Radio Hour will continue to highlight BGCF365 and focus on the impact of its grantmaking!

In total, BGCF365 has awarded $100,000 in grants to Lexington nonprofits!

In this episode you will hear impact stories from 3 nonprofits who received $10,000 from BGCF365:

- Kris Nonn, Executive Director of NoLi CDC

- Carrie Thayer, Director of Development of One Parent Scholar House

- Jani Lewis, Executive Director of Natalie's Sisters

Want to join BGCF365? Visit here: https://www.bgcf.org/community-engagement/bgcf365/

Just $1 per day for 365 days. It's as simple as that to invest together for a stronger Lexington.

This week, the Do Good Radio Hour focuses on BGCF365, an initiative connecting Lexington’s aspiring philanthropic and civic leaders for just $1 per day. Pooled with fellow BGCF365 members, the commitment of $365 compounds, creating a powerful grantmaking engine for Lexington nonprofits and civic projects.

This episode features the two co-chairs of BGCF365, Rebecca Sherman and Will Booher, as well as the $10,000 grant recipient for 2020, Central Music Academy with Executive Director Erin Walker Bliss!

Are you looking for a way to connect with your community? Consider joining BGCF365 today!

Start where you are.

Use what you have.

Give what you can.

Investing in YOUR community is incredibly important to us here at BGCF. We host a network of endowed community funds, each seeking to improve the quality of life in their geography. These 9 different community funds work to increase charitable giving to impact their region’s greatest needs and opportunities.

This episode features three board members from Franklin, Clark, and Woodford county who share about their experience on the board of directors of their community funds! Please welcome Harry Carver, Alex Rowady, and Lori Garkovich!

We are ending Black History Month strong with a final edition episode featuring five visionaries who are paving paths to a better Lexington!

This week's show features two committee members of the Lexington Black Prosperity Initiative here at BGCF:

- Christian Motley: Senior Manager of Policy and Partnerships, Strive Together

- Andrea James: Community Response Strategist, Office of the Mayor, LFUCG

And three honorees of the Grassroots Black Leadership Awards:

- Tanya Torp: a diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility consultant & co-founder of Not The Only One In the Room & BIPOC womyn’s writing group

- Ashley C. Smith: co-founder of Black Soil: Our Better Nature

- Elisha Mutayongwa: founder of Rafiki Center

Welcome back everyone! My name is Kaeton and I am part of the communication team here at BGCF. This is an extra special edition of the Do Good Radio as it is the month of February and we are pleased to honor and celebrate Black History Month!

This week's show features:

- Dr. Candice Nicole, executive director of the Center for Healing Racial Trauma.

- Devine Carama, an honoree of the Grassroots Black Leadership Award. He is also a hip-hop artist, speaker, and director of Believing In Forever Inc..

- Dr. Everett McCorvey, founder & director of the American Spiritual Ensemble. Stay tuned for his beautiful story about the history of American Negro Spirituals and how they influenced what we listen to today!

These visionaries are creating positive ripples in our community of Lexington! Give their stories a listen and learn more about how to get involved in the change!

Want better things for 2021? Start with giving back to YOUR community!

Learn more by listening to this podcast where BGCF interviews three diverse nonprofits! Nothing fills you up like giving back.

Welcome Arbor Youth Services who provides safe alternatives for homeless or at-risk children, youth and their families. Central Kentucky Youth Orchestras who provides music education and performance opportunities for over 400 students in Central Kentucky through six orchestras. And Josephine Sculpture Park, who is Kentucky’s only sculpture park!

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We are featuring three more diverse nonprofits who participated in the 2020 GoodGiving Challenge. The YMCA, for youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility, Legacy Greenscapes, a public park in Winechester, and The Wanda Joyce Robinson Foundation serving children impacted by incarceration.

Bluegrass Community Foundation believes doing good inspires good. Listen every week to learn more about the good work making our local communities better places to live!

This week you won't want to miss! Inspiring stories from nonprofits doing incredible work.

Welcome CASA of Lexington, Lexington Humane Society, and Reading Camp!

Bluegrass Community Foundation believes doing good inspires good. Listen every week to learn more about the good work making our local communities better places to live!

Welcome Voices of Hope Lexington, Bluegrass Council of the Blind, and Newton's Attic!

Bluegrass Community Foundation believes doing good inspires good. Listen every week to learn more about the good work making our local communities better places to live!

Welcome Justin's Place, Blessing Hands, and Moveable Feast Lexington!