Clark County nonprofits celebrate record-breaking fundraiser

On Tuesday, February 17, Clark County non­prof­its gath­ered at Leeds Center for the Arts to learn more about the Clark County Community Foundation (CCCF) and to cel­e­brate the incred­i­ble suc­cess of Bluegrass Gives 2025.

CCCF — not to be con­fused with the Greater Clark Foundation — is a fund man­aged by Bluegrass Community Foundation (BGCF) and direct­ed by a local board of advi­sors. Since its incep­tion in 1998, CCCF has award­ed over $4 mil­lion in grants to Clark County non­prof­its and char­i­ta­ble projects. Its endow­ment is cur­rent­ly at $9.7 million.

At last Tuesday’s event — dubbed the 2025 Grantmaking Review — atten­dees heard from each mem­ber of the board, which includ­ed Will Glasscock, Tracey Goebel, Ros Gay, Lisa Johns, and Mickey Little. Each direc­tor high­light­ed a few of the many local orga­ni­za­tions that received fund­ing from the foun­da­tion in 2025.

Also speak­ing was Will Hodgkin, who paid trib­ute to the late Ralph Oliver, who left $4 mil­lion in his will for the CCCF. Will was one of the five founders of the foun­da­tion, and his fam­i­ly foun­da­tion has con­tributed large sums to the foun­da­tion and its mem­ber organizations.

The high­light of the morn­ing was a report on Bluegrass Gives 2025 — for­mer­ly the GoodGiving Challenge — by Halee Cunningham of BGCF. Thanks in large part to an over $431,000 match­ing grant pool from the Hodgkin Family Foundation and CCCF, 33 local non­prof­its raised near­ly one mil­lion dol­lars dur­ing the event. For con­text, Clark County non­prof­its account­ed for almost one-third of the total raised across BGCF’s 14‑county ser­vice area.

After the cer­e­mo­ny, WinCity Voices spoke with CCCF board chair Will Glasscock, who told us that the 33 local non­profts that par­tic­i­pat­ed rep­re­sent­ed a record num­ber and a record amount of funds raised. 

“You know, a ris­ing tide lifts all boats. So, the out­size amount of mon­ey com­ing from Clark County and going to Clark County non­prof­its is amaz­ing. It’s always been like that — we punch above our weight.”

WinCity Media, the non­prof­it estab­lished to sup­port WinCity Voices, par­tic­i­pat­ed in BG Gives 2025 and raised over $14,000 thanks to gen­er­ous donors in our community.