Grantee Stories Archive

Louisville Leopard Percussionists

“I truly believe these young people represent the best opportunity we have to make a better tomorrow.” – Carlos Santana, Grammy Award Winning Musician We couldn’t agree more. And that is why the Norton Foundation is pleased to support the . . .

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Waldorf School

The Norton Foundation and the Waldorf School of Louisville have a long history. Not only because members of the third generation of the Norton family, Janey Newton and Robin Dulaney, founded the school, but also because Waldorf education embodies Norton . . .

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Neighborhood House: Inspiring life dreams in Portland

One of our founding visions is to bring hands-on, life-changing education to predominately low-income neighborhoods. Since its foundation in 1896, Neighborhood House has brought arts and education opportunities to the Portland neighborhood of Louisville, where family and childhood poverty far . . .

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The Food Literacy Project: Farm-to-table education for life

The Food Literacy Project is a long-term project that fulfills many of our own goals, inspiring a new generation to build healthy relationships with food, farming, and the land. The Food Literacy Project impacts the lives of local children through . . .

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Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts: Impacting thousands of young lives

The Norton Foundation believes that children and young adults should be actively engaged in hands-on education; it is one of the core beliefs that created our mission back in 1954. Since its inception in 1983 The Kentucky Center for the . . .

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