Nonprofit Spotlight | YouthLink Southern Indiana

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Youth Link Southern Indiana
1740 Williamsburg Drive, Suite G
Jeffersonville, Indiana 47130
Business Phone: 812-280-0028

Website: www.youthlinksi.org
Contact Person: Lauren Wagoner, Marketing and Development Manager
Contact Email: lwagoner@youthlinksi.org

 

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Youth Link Southern Indiana is a local youth-serving organization that provides academic support, mental health services, and basic needs resources. Youth Link Southern Indiana partners with all four school districts in Clark County and New Albany High School in Floyd County, providing support to 19 schools and 4,500 students through their vital programming. The organization’s focus is Linking Youth to Pathways of Success by removing barriers for students. Youth Link Southern Indiana was formerly known as Community in Schools in Clark County.

 

Youth Link provides a variety of programming through their school day services. Resource Coordinators provide 1-on-1 and small group tutoring, distribute Bare Necessities items, and oversee the 321 Read Program. The Bare Necessities program provides coats, shoes, hygiene products, and other basic needs to students. The 321 Read program matches a community volunteer with a struggling reader for a 1-on-1 weekly session. Youth Link Southern Indiana also partners with Centerstone Mental Health to provide licensed, clinical therapists to students in need at no cost.

 

Youth Link Southern Indiana provides programming outside of the school day. The 21st Century Community Learning Center sites offer after school academic and behavioral interventions for referred students grades 1-12. In addition to homework assistance and tutoring, students participate in a variety of enrichment activities. The Extended Day Learning Program (EDL) provides engaging and enriching before and after school care for elementary students in a nurturing environment.

 

Agency Mission Statement or Description: 

Linking Youth to Pathways of Success 

Year established: 2002

Counties/regions serviced: Clark and Floyd County

 

Focus areas: Education, Academic Support, Enriched Activities, Bare Necessities Supply Closets, Mental Health Services, Literacy Mentor Program

 

Impact in community: We remove barriers for students to reach their full potential.

 

Volunteer Opportunities: 321 Read matches a community volunteer with a struggling reader for a one-on-one weekly session of reading to and with the student. Each week, the student is given a new book of their own to take home and add to their home library. Once the student is matched with a “reading friend,” we make sure they have a volunteer to read with them for a full three years, from first through third grade, the most critical years for reading mastery.

 

How 1si members can help your organization:

  • Volunteer for 321 Read Program (just 30 minutes a week at the school of your choice)
  • Donate essential clothing and hygiene items to the Bare Necessities Supply Closets
  • Donate directly to Youth Link Southern
    • A gift of $25 per month provides:
      • 40 new books for our 321 Read Students
      • 10 personal items for low-income youth
      • 1-month student scholarship for our after-school programs
      • 20 hours for 1 student – in-school tutoring or academic support
      • 1 year of school-based therapy – Access for one student for an academic year

Nonprofit Spotlight | New Life International

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This special feature showcases 1si’s nonprofit members. Spotlighting members from across the community, 1si’s Nonprofit Member Spotlight reflects the variety of our membership. If you would like to be featured in this section, please email Becky Ellenburg.

Company Name:     New Life International

Address:       6764 S. Bloomington Trail

City/State/Zip:         Underwood, IN 47177

Business Phone:     812-752-7474

Website:       waterfortheworld.org

Contact Person:      Mark DiStasi, Director of Mission Advancement

Contact Email:   mark.distasi@waterfortheworld.com

 

Please use 300 words or less to describe your agency and your impact in the community.

Since 1998, New Life International, Inc.’s mission has been to provide safe water and deliver the Gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the world. A very durable, yet cost-effective and simple-to-operate, water purifier was invented by Duvon McGuire that creates chlorine to disinfect water. One purifier has the capability of serving a school, orphanage, clinic, hospital or even an entire community.  In 2020, NLI began to expand its solutions by launching a cutting-edge Innovation Center that introduced automated water purification as well as wound healing, hand sanitation, and surface disinfection solutions.

We envision a world where all people have access to solutions that enhance physical and spiritual well-being.  To that end, our technology has been deployed to over 80 countries globally, including more than 4,000 of our flagship water purification systems. Missionaries, pastors, and church leaders who know of a need for our solutions come to our campus in Underwood, Indiana, for a free, one-day training on proper placement and installation. It is through these relationships that New Life International is able to bring hope and healing to the uttermost parts of the world.

Whether you’re currently on the mission field or your present stage of life doesn’t allow you to go on mission, you can play a part in making a difference in communities around the world.

Agency Mission Statement or Description:

Bringing hope and healing to a world in need through innovative technology and the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Year established: 1998

Counties/regions serviced: Scott

Focus areas: International

Impact on community: Added two facilities in Scottsburg in 2022

Volunteer Opportunities:

We are a ministry dependent upon volunteers, just like you or your group.

Portions of the water purifier assembly work are performed by volunteers.

How 1si members can help your organization:

Important tasks often needed through our volunteers include community outreach, grounds maintenance, newsletter preparation, data entry, fundraising, grant writing, and inventory.

Nonprofit Spotlight | Hope Southern Indiana

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This special feature showcases 1si’s nonprofit members. Spotlighting members from across the community, 1si’s Nonprofit Spotlight reflects the variety of our membership.

Hope Southern Indiana
1200 Bono Rd
New Albany, IN 47150
Business Phone:     812-948-9248
www.hopesi.org

Contact Person: Angela Graf, Executive Director
Contact Email:        agraf@hopesi.org

 

Agency Mission Statement or Description:

Year established:  1964-Downtown Neighborhood Council-Interfaith Community Council and in 2012 as Hope Southern Indiana

Counties/regions serviced: Hope SI serves primarily Floyd & Clark Counties, Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) serves Floyd, Clark, Scott, Washington & Jefferson County

Focus areas: Basic Needs-Human Services

Impact in community: We partner with 57 churches, MUW, Dare To Care and collaborate with similar nonprofits caring for our low-income population needing assistance. In 2022, we provided 17,565 services to the community. We distributed more than $955,000 in food through the pantry. We served 2092 unduplicated households with 88% of services in Floyd County. We helped 701 families with basic utility bills to avoid disconnection, assisted 628 families with rent/mortgage payments to avoid eviction, and with our IDVA grant, we were able to provide $41,000 in services to Veterans.  In 2022, we served 783 households for the first time ever; families that had not had to visit a food pantry or social service organization before.

Volunteer Opportunities: We offer many opportunities for volunteers at Hope Southern Indiana.  Through our RSVP program, we offer volunteer opportunities at 130 other organizations in 5 counties.

How 1si members can help your organization: Donate food, and hygiene items, host food drives, and participate in programs such as Pack the Bus, Clothe A Teen, and Spirit of the Season. Volunteer at Hope with your church, organization, or business. Make a monetary donation through our website.

Nonprofit Spotlight | Junior Achievement of Kentuckiana, Inc. | February 2023

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One Southern Indiana is once again featuring a Nonprofit Spotlight monthly in its One Weekly For and About Members edition.

This special feature showcases 1si’s nonprofit members. Spotlighting members from across the community, 1si’s Nonprofit Spotlight reflects the variety of our membership. If you would like to be featured in this section, please email Becky Ellenburg at Beckye@1si.org.

This month’s focus will be Junior Achievement of Kentuckiana, Inc. 

Company Name: Junior Achievement of Kentuckiana, Inc.
Address: 1401 West Muhammad Ali Blvd Louisville, KY 40203
Business Phone: 502-569-9213
Website: jaky.org
Contact Person: Bailey Hanks
Contact Title: Director of Special Events and Fund Development
Contact Email:  bhanks@jaky.org

Please use 300 words or less to describe your agency and your impact on the community.

Agency Mission Statement or Description: Junior Achievement’s mission is to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy.

Year established: 1949.

Counties/regions serviced: Areas Served – Junior Achievement of Kentuckiana (jaky.org)

Focus areas: With interactive programs tailored to elementary, middle, and high school students, Junior Achievement introduces young people throughout our community to the realities and possibilities of the working world and personal finance. As the breadth of our communities’ problems seems to grow every day, we believe there is a way to get to the root of these growing issues. With our mission to inspire and prepare young people for success, we work to foster students’ belief in themselves and a sense of purpose to overcome life’s challenges. JA can change “I can’t” to “I can” through a scientifically proven approach by showing students how money, careers, and business ownership work. With the help of volunteer role models in proven programs, there comes a simple shift to a positive attitude.

Impact in community: During the 22-23 school year our goal is to reach 50,000 students from the Greater Louisville/Southern Indiana Community.

How 1si members can help your organization: We are always looking for volunteers to get involved in the classroom, to have a booth at our mega career fair, or participate in a bowling event with their coworkers to raise funds for JA!