Through our community directed projects, Winchester First fosters a vibrant downtown community that celebrates its unique traditions, historic architecture, and the community’s spirit. As a community that helps each other succeed, entrepreneurs, building owners, and community members can access a wealth of resources and opportunities through Winchester First. Their BTB work involve listening sessions as the foundation for a long-term plan for creating intentional public spaces for all users of downtown amenities, businesses, and residences.

Clark County Community Services is the primary source for aid for families in crisis in the Winchester/Clark County area. Since 1975, CCCS has been encouraging families toward self-sufficiency while providing food, clothing, shelter, and utility assistance. CCCS’s BTB work, serving on behalf of the Housing Security work group, will center around partner education, training, and deepening relationships between and among social services providers, government agencies, and housing providers to improve the ways systems work for clients.

The Clark County Equity Coalition is a grassroots effort that was born out of a group of parents and grandparents of children from Clark County and surrounding areas who live and/or work in Clark County. Proactively, the Coalition joined together with a common cause to partner with the Board of Education, The Prichard Committee and Clark County Schools to be a resource to the educational system, parents, the community, and, most of all, our children. The Clark County Equity Coalition plans to build trust, belonging, and inclusion in Clark County through a series of "Courageous Conversations" with key stakeholders about what it means to earn a meaningful diploma and to help inform further diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging policies and procedures within Clark County Schools.

Expanding on the Icelandic Prevention Model for youth substance abuse, EPIC plans to address disconnection between local decision makers and the broader community with BTB funding. EPIC’s cross-sector team will host three workshops to provide tools to coalition members to communicate effectively, engage with each other across cultural divides, and understand how to utilize their assets to move forward collectively and collaboratively. EPIC’s work will require hard conversations to change how the community engages youth and support well-rounded, engaged, and healthy growth and development.

The Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange (RUX) is a statewide leadership network that engages diverse Kentuckians in relationships, conferences, training, and projects that shape a more collaborative and connected Commonwealth. In their BTB work, RUX proposes to focus on aligning key institutional partners from their statewide network into an institutional Bridging Network including building/strengthening relationships with an emphasis on partners in the Greater Clark County region.

Legacy Greenscapes’ BTB work will focus on increasing teen girls' engagement in the community, connecting them to adults, encouraging their voices, and building agents of change. The idea behind "Make Space for Girls" stemmed from a desire to engage tween and teen girls at Legacy Grove Park. Tween years are when girls internalize beliefs about their place in public spaces and in community at-large. This program involves a cohort of teen girls who will spend quality time together at the park, building trusting relationships with adults from a variety of institutions in the community.

The challenge for the Poynterville Steering Committee is in getting a critical mass of inter-generational neighbors to commit the time to develop a safe space for sharing experiences of trust building. By using a community organizing strategy, the PSC encourages inclusive neighborhood participation as a value and uses a learning paradigm where participants learn from each other’s experience in building trust and belonging. Their BTB work will recruit and train community-based organizers as a means of reaching all parts of the neighborhood and as a leadership development opportunity for emerging leaders in the Poynterville neighborhood.

ProudTown exists to build a community that is welcoming and supportive to all, particularly LGBTQIA+ people and youth. Through the BTB grant, ProudTown aims to focus on developing buy-in and increasing community engagement through community events. Further, ProudTown will use BTB funds to develop relationships with organizations already doing family reconciliation work to ensure there is a strong support network for families that may be struggling to find common ground.

The Red Oaks Forest School (Red Oaks) has a mission to build trust, belonging, and compassion with each other and the natural world through shared experiences in nature. Red Oaks’ values include nature immersion, wonder, exploration, compassion, and community. BTB participation aims to build staff skills related to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion; build relationships with organizations supporting underrepresented and underserved groups in nature; host programming that is inviting and accessible to underrepresented and underserved groups in nature; and educate the public on real versus perceived risks in nature to increase compassion for wildlife and comfort in the outdoors.