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The Fightmaster Cup

The Fightmaster Cup is a match play golf tournament involving players from North America and Europe. It is an event which involves golfers with the use of one arm only, with it being the first international tournament in history for one-armed golfers. The competition honors Louisville native Don Fightmaster, who lost his arm in an accident in 1954 while in the US Army. Fightmaster taught himself to play golf one-handed and excelled to the point where Time Magazine referred to him as "the Arnold Palmer of amputee golf."
The tournament is played between one-armed golfers from the North American One-Armed Golfer Association, formed in 2000, and the Society of One-Armed Golfers, formed in 1932 and based in Glasgow.


Kentucky Harvest/Blessings in a Backpack

Blessings in a Backpack began in 2005 with just one school in Louisville, Kentucky. The program is celebrating its second year of operation outside of Jefferson County and the Louisville, Kentucky Metro regions. This program is designed to help meet the nutritional needs of children and families over weekends. The Blessings in a Backpack is a program being initiated through the efforts of concerned citizens. Every Thursday afternoon, volunteers will fill selected student's backpacks with non-perishable food items and pass them out to students on Fridays at the end of the school day. For more information visit www.weekendfoodforkids.org or www.kyharvest.com.


Brandon's House Counseling Center, Inc.

Brandon's House Counseling Center, Inc. is a nonprofit agency in New Albany, Indiana that opened in 1993 with the purpose of giving away counseling to teenagers and their families.

Brandon's House has helped more than 2300 families in the fourteen years it has been open and has given away more than $1,290,000 worth of professional counseling services.

Brandon's House currently has ten Master's level counselors on the staff. Brandon's House has served families from Floyd, Clark, Harrison, Washington, and Scott counties in Indiana in addition to several from Kentucky.

No one has ever received a bill and no one has ever been turned away. However, more serious cases are referred on to appropriate services. For more information visit www.brandonshousein.com.


The Michael Quinlan Brain Tumor Foundation

The Michael Quinlan Brain Tumor Foundation is dedicated to empowering those persons who have been affected by brain tumors. The Foundation provides support through educational, emotional, financial and spiritual services.

Based in Louisville, Kentucky, the Foundation was formed in April of 2001 in memory of Michael J. Quinlan who passed away from an aggressive cancerous brain tumor called Glioblastoma or commonly referred to as a GBM. Mike lived for 10 1/2 months after diagnosis and was 45 years old when he passed. Receiving so much hope, encouragement and comfort from friends and the community at large during his journey, the family wanted to return the goodwill.

For any brain tumor patient, the journey is not easy and not one to undertake alone. The Michael Quinlan Brain Tumor Foundation is composed of survivors, family members and friends who are willing to travel with you. For more information visit www.mqbtf.org.

The Louisville Deaf Oral School

With a rich history of over 50 years of service to the community, the Louisville Deaf Oral School is a regional not-for-profit early childhood educational center for deaf or hard of hearing children, ages birth to 8 years of age.

Today the Louisville Deaf Oral School, on the campus of the Heuser Hearing Institute, is a resource for over 120 students a semester. The Louisville Dear Oral School was the first school of its kind in the state of Kentucky and today remains one of a handful of deal oral schools in the nation.

The Louisville Deaf Oral School is recognized as a nationally acclaimed model preschool/kindergarten program and diagnostic center serving deaf and hard of hearing children from 18 Kentucky and seven southern Indiana counties. For over 10 years, LDOS has partnered with Jefferson County Public Schools and surrounding school systems to provide services for deaf and hard of hearing preschool and kindergarten children at no cost to the families. School staff works with each system to arrange, when possible, placement for young deaf and hard of hearing children so that families can avoid the cost of this very specialized but critical early education. When LDOS is not the local school's placement option, families are provided a sliding tuition scale option that is very considerate of the families other financial obligations. We are happy to say that no deaf or hard of hearing child has ever been denied services due to inability to pay. For more information visit www.thehearinginstitute.org.


The Robby Albarado Foundation

The Robby Albarado Foundation is a non-profit organization established to assist homeless, socially-economically disadvantaged, and less fortunate individuals in the Louisville, Kentucky area. The Foundation truly believes every life has equal value and each individual deserves the opportunity to have a better way of life. As one who received a chance and has succeeded in life because of that, I know how valuable chances are. It is our foundation purpose to give these individuals and small local charitable organizations that same opportunity by contributing to and assisting them in their endeavors. For more information visit www.robbyalbaradofoundation.org.


West Louisville Performing Arts Academy

The West Louisville Boys Choir (now known as WLPAA) was established in 1990 by McDaniel Bluitt, a retired music teacher with twenty-eight (28) years of experience in the Jefferson County Public School system.

The mission of The WLPAA is to train young boys and girls with fundamentally sound life skills and to provide opportunities for artistic enrichment through the performing arts. This mission is achieved through using music as a vehicle to address social issues facing the youth involved in the organization. We believe that we are uniquely positioned to address the artistic, academic and social development needs of our underprivileged youth through the performing arts. For more information visit http://wlpaa.com.