December 16, 2014 Louisville, KY – Kosair Charities is pleased to donate $100,000 to four local, non-profit organizations: West End School, Carriage House, Bluegrass Training and Therapy Center and the University of Louisville Physicians Bingham Clinic. Advisory Council members identified four organizations that received a $25,000 grant from Kosair Charities. These gifts will continue Kosair Charities’ mission of protecting the health and wellbeing of Kosair Kids®.
The Kosair Charities Advisory Council, consisting of leaders in the community, serve as the consulting arm to the board of directors. They aid in maintaining Kosair Charities’ focus on meeting the healthcare needs of children in Kentucky and Southern Indiana.
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“As co-chair of the Kosair Charities Advisory Council, I am pleased to have been asked to help make critical investment decisions that benefit disadvantaged children and youth of Metro Louisville. To help child-centered organizations who have never been funded by Kosair Charities was very challenging and rewarding at the same time” said Sam Watkins, Advisory Council Member.
Each organization plans to use the grants to fund specific efforts in 2015:
The West End School will renovate the middle school classroom, kitchen, dining room, game room, laundry room and proposed theatre space. Currently there is only one bathroom serving approximately 50 students and faculty. However, the school is expected to increase enrollment over the next 3 years, creating great need for these improvements.
The Kentucky Center for Special Children D/B/A Carriage House will use the additional funding to enhance a new classroom that began renovations in August of 2014. The focus will to be placed on basic developmental and prerequisite skills such as attention, following basic routines and direction, motor skills, social communication and social play. This program will help children with identified disabilities develop skills needed to move into a preschool classroom with their peers.
Bluegrass Training and Therapy Center will use the $25,000 in grant funding to complete their youth service center. The former facility was ruined by fire. The new facility will be able to host not only staff offices and training but allow appropriate space for service delivery and facilitating mentoring, employment, education and personal wellness programs.
The University of Louisville Physicians Bingham Clinic plans to order new computers monitors for their clinicians, in addition to video cameras, play materials for therapeutic work and new furnishings for offices and the waiting room.
The Kosair Charities Advisory Council Members include: Chandler Blewett, Bob Bonsutto, Judge Gina Calvert, Bobby Clarkson, Joan Conrad, Reba Doutrick, Councilman David James, Dave Juergens, Jean West Losavio, Tom O’Bryan, John B. Roth, MD, Lester Sanders, Craig Scherman, Sandy Metts Snowden, Bob Thrush, J. Memory Townsend, Sam Watkins, Jr.. Ex Officio Members: Randy Coe, President Kosair Charities and Jerry Ward, Chairman of Kosair Charities Board.
