-We seek to connect donors, nonprofits, and civic partners to create lasting impact in community. Under our current strategic plan, we are focusing our efforts to maximize impact in community and elevate organizational excellence, valuing integrity, responsibility, excellence, and inclusion of all voices. -We pursue our mission through programs, processes, and partnerships. We are focused on maximizing impact through strategic grant and loan programs shaped by the community to address its greatest needs, and leveraging local and national partnerships to accomplish more than we could alone. -We seek to build an organization that is reflective of and advocates for the community we serve. We are committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in our organization and in community, and to demonstrating that commitment through our actions and investment. -We seek to be a leader in philanthropy, open to listening and changing in order to sustain transformation. -We seek to thrive as a business by implementing organizational best practices to grow discretionary grant dollars, strengthen donor trust, and communicate our story.

Personalized Service: We help donors establish charitable funds that support the causes and organizations they care about through a wide variety of gifts and giving strategies. We assist our donors with the grantmaking process to meet their charitable goals and create maximum impact through their giving. Experience: When a donor works with CFL, they have access to a team of local professionals who will administer the fund in the most effective way possible to honor the donor’s intent. We partner with our donors’ professional advisors to help provide deep expertise in philanthropic giving to develop highly efficient giving approaches for their clients. Knowledge: We help our donors learn more about local programs, organizations and community needs. Through partnerships with civic leaders, and local and national foundations, CFL aligns funding and efforts to advance critical community goals. Legacy: CFL donors become an important part of the future of our community by establishing funds that support their interests, and meet current and future needs of Louisville. Strategic Programs: CFL manages a $1. 2 million grantmaking budget, thanks to the generosity of donors who have trusted our staff to manage unrestricted gifts for community impact. CFL’s programs support investments in nonprofit organizations, leaders, artists, entrepreneurs, and timely opportunities.

The Foundation’s professional staff provide expert counsel for donors and organizations through Donor Advised Funds, Endowment Funds, Scholarship Funds, Charitable Gift Annuities, and Supporting Organizations. Staff are deeply rooted in the local community, understanding its history, needs and opportunities and aligning resources to make the greatest impact. In 2018, the Foundation issued more than $55 million in grants, and nearly 85% of those grants impacted people and places in Kentucky and Southern Indiana. The Foundation frequently convenes civic and government leaders to coordinate efforts, and multiple sources of funding, to advance our community’s long-term goals.

-Increase in gifts, grants, and number of funds. -Increase in aligned grantmaking and greater coordination of community investment that impacts education, jobs/employment, health, and quality of place indicators.

-Increased total assets to more than $500 million and increased grantmaking to more than $70 million. -Coordinated more than 170 local and national partners to advance the Coordinated Community Investment initiative, a unique exploratory endeavor that strives to identify and guide impactful community investment. -Invested through the CFL Impact Capital program nearly $2. 7 million in 13 local projects that are generating a financial return and a social return in the form of new businesses, affordable housing, and community facilities. -Invested in the professional development of 45 local artists through the Hadley Creatives, 33 local nonprofit leaders through the Alden Fellows. -Granted through the Fund for Louisville program more than $2. 5 million to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of more than 120 local nonprofits. -Awarded $1. 6 million in scholarships to students in 2019, surpassing local and national data trends for awards to people of color, first generation, female, and non-traditional students. -We are committed to evaluating our current efforts, seeking innovation and feedback to deepen our impact. This will likely motivate changing current practices, focusing programs, and creating new efforts to respond to critical and changing needs.