Bench & Bar July/August 2025

Kentucky Bar Foundation

2 0 2 5 G R A N T S

Americana Community Center, Inc. Immigration Law Workshop Series Antagonist Productions I Come From: Creative Writing Program AppalReD Legal Aid

$ 3,000

Kentucky CASA Network 2025 State CASA Volunteer Conference Kentucky Equal Justice Center Kentucky Immigrant Rights Project Kentucky High School Mock Trial Assoc. Tournament Administration and Support Kentucky Innocence Project Advocacy for All: Assistance for Adjustment of Status Kentucky YMCA Youth Assoc. Empowering Future Legal and Civic Leaders La Casita Center Breaking the Chains of Injustice Kentucky Refugee Ministries

$ 1,800

$ 10,000

$ 5,000

$ 15,000

$ 10,000

Pro Se Law Clinics AVOL Kentucky

$ 3,570

$ 10,000

The Kentucky Name Change Clinic Barren River Area Child Advocacy Center Guardify for a Secure, Convenient Chain of Evidence Brighton Center Reducing Barriers to Housing Catholic Charities, Diocese of Owensboro Pilgrimage for Hope: Who is my neighbor and how do we accompany them? Catholic Charities of Louisville Immigration Legal Services-Fee Waiver Program Catholic Diocese of Lexington Mary Queen of the Holy Rosary Immigration Fund Children’s Advocacy Center of the Bluegrass $ 5,000 Multidisciplinary Team Leadership Program Children’s Law Center $ 7,500 Protecting the Rights of At-Risk Youth Community Response Coalition of Kentucky $ 5,000 2024 KBF GRANTEES $ 9,500 $ 10,000 $ 10,000 $ 10,000 $ 5,000

$ 10,000

$ 10,000

$ 15,000

Legal Clinic Legal Aid Society

$ 10,000

Veterans Legal Assistance Program Merryman House Domestic Crisis Center

$ 2,500

Legal Links Informational Booklet Micah Legal

$ 15,000

Growing our Capacity to Meet Growing Needs Neighbors Immigration Clinic Pathways to Justice: Empowering Immigrant Youth The Nest-Center for Women, Children, and Families Legal Services for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence Safe Harbor of Northeast KY

$ 5,000

$ 11,000

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Legal Representation Program Family & Children’s Place Supervised Visitation Finer Pearls Foundation 4 TH D ISTRICT • Brandeis School of Law Eviction Clinic • Access Justice • La Casita Center • Home of the Innocents • Legal Aid Society Statue of Alberta O. Jones Holly Hill Child & Family Solutions Multidisciplinary Team Training/Community Education Family Enrichment Center 6 TH D ISTRICT • Brighton Center • Holly Hill Child & Family Solutions • Legal Aid Society • ION Center for Violence Prevention

$ 5,000 • Hope’s Place Inc. • CASA of the Appalachian Mountains • Safe Harbor of Northeast Kentucky • AppalRed • ION Center for Violence Prevention • Children’s Advocacy Center of the Bluegrass • The Nest $ 15,000 $ 1,000 $ 15,000

$ 11,000

Legal Aid Fund

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KBF Law School Scholarships NKU Chase College of Law $ 10,000 UK Rosenberg College of Law $ 10,000 U of L Brandeis School of Law $ 10,000

$ 30,000

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Supervised Visitation Home of the Innocents Parent Education Program Hope’s Place Digital Interviewing Software HOTEL INC

$ 5,000

Clinic

7 TH D ISTRICT

AppalReD Legal Aid

$ 2,000

• Hope’s Place Inc. • CASA of the Appalachian Mountains • Safe Harbor of Northeast Kentucky • AppalRed • ION Center for Violence Prevention • Children’s Advocacy Center of the Bluegrass • The Nest

$ 6,800

on behalf of KBA 2025 Distinguished Judge, Judge Eddy Coleman, Pikeville The Kentucky Bar Foundation, Inc. on behalf of KBA 2025 Distinguished Lawyer, Donald H. Combs, Pikeville (posthumously)

$ 5,240

$ 2,000

Legal Knowledge for Economic Stability & Resiliency Involvement Inc. Home Incarceration and Drug Screening Program The Ion Center for Violence Prevention 2 ND D ISTRICT

$ 4,000

TOTAL AWARDS $ 311,910

$ 11,000

• AppalRed • Children’s Advocacy Center of the Bluegrass • Equal Justice Works • The Nest • Legal Aid Society 3 RD D ISTRICT

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Court Advocate Program

• Barren River Area Child Advocacy Center • Family Enrichment Center • Equal Justice Works • Legal Aid Society

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