Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky has distributed more than $40,000 across three nonprofits, bringing relief support totals to more than $700,000 for Northern Kentucky.

Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky and Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission have launched a fund to support the nonprofit’s work to help Northern Kentucky families achieve self-reliance.

Nearly 30 Give Where You Live NKY giving circle members gathered on Zoom last week to give $6,000 to two local charities in a process that took less than an hour. In the end, members voted to give this quarter’s prizes to The Barracks Project, based in Newport, and Covington Partners, based in Covington.

Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky will distribute nearly $60,000 across four nonprofits this week, bringing relief support totals to $664,000 for Northern Kentucky.

The four latest nonprofits to receive funding are:

• Legal Aid of the Bluegrass: $36,812.50

• Oak Ridge Baptist Church: $14,181

• Diocese of Covington: $4,209.30

• Learning Grove, on behalf of local educator Linda Vila Passione: $3,060

Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky’s giving circle for emerging philanthropists, The 410, kicked off this week with a vote to determine which focus area in the nonprofit sector they would like to fund for the 2020 cohort.

Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky will distribute $30,000 to Faith Community Pharmacy and $40,000 to Early Childhood Learning Education Assessment Resource Network (EC Learn), both serving Boone, Campbell, and Kenton counties in Northern Kentucky.

Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky has distributed more than $550,000 to Northern Kentucky nonprofits, as organizations across the region experience ongoing hardships caused by the pandemic.

The Campbell County Historical and Genealogical Society is bursting at the seams. The all-volunteer nonprofit formed in 1990 to preserve, protect and promote history and genealogy in Campbell County, Kentucky. The organization also currently maintains a research office, library, and museum on the second floor of the historic Alexandria Courthouse to maintain its projects.

Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky and The Boone Conservancy have partnered to launch a new fund to support the Conservancy’s efforts in Boone County.

Horizon Community Funds will immediately deploy $50,000 across four nonprofits for their work in Northern Kentucky, through its Community Impact Fund.