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March 23, 2023
Bolstered by National Endowment for the Arts funding, Ella Kirlew, a resident of Lexington’s East End community, was commissioned by Art Inc. Kentucky to produce a painting to hang in Community Vent...
March 16, 2023
When Ashley Willis began her search for the ideal daycare for her daughter, none that she found met the basics of her criteria—a facility that was faith-based, transparent and parent-friendly. Willi...
March 09, 2023
Jude Louis, a 23-year-old fashion entrepreneur was at the end of his rope and out of options. His inaugural fashion show featuring a collection long-anticipated by supporters came apart at the seams w...
February 16, 2023
Hot Buns Food Truck—a name based on a favorite song of co-owner Emil David—provided a means to the end of moving back to wife Liz’s home state of Kentucky. Chef Space–Community Ventures’ inn...
January 24, 2023
Community Ventures’ (CV) long-running success helping Kentucky entrepreneurs launch and grow small businesses has netted them both the 2022 Kentucky Small Business Association Microlender of the Yea...
January 17, 2023
While most artists are by definition ‘out-of-the-box’ thinkers, glass artist Travis Adams has gone so far as to annihilate the box altogether with his three-pronged business model for Trifecta, so...
January 04, 2023
The Women’s Business Center of Kentucky (WBC)—in partnership with PNC Bank—has awarded first place in the 2022 Women’s Small Business Jump Start Contest to Jessica Wright of Wright Workforce S...
December 20, 2022
“Somewhere in the world, a child dies every 14.5 seconds from drinking contaminated water,” asserts Joe Montgomery who, along with Dr. Timm Finfrock co-founded Square 1 Technologies. The duo teame...
December 13, 2022
Carrie Harris (CEO) and Patrice Duncan (COO) of D&E Housing and Economic Empowerment Center, Inc. are passionate—both about their callings to aid the underserved and the mPact Pro client managem...
November 22, 2022
Lexington-based non-profit Community Ventures has announced the 2022 title sponsorship of their premier holiday event—Traditional Bank’s Christmas at Mustard Seed Hill. Central Kentucky’s go-to ...
November 09, 2022
On Monday, November 7th, the tiny city of Millersburg in rural Bourbon County, Kentucky made history when construction began on the first house to be constructed there in nearly two decades. The struc...
October 19, 2022
When Melaina Balbo’s commercial kitchen space in Lexington, Kentucky fell through, that twist of fate led her to Chef Space, Community Ventures’ kitchen incubator in Louisville. That fortuitous gl...
October 09, 2022
From her home base in Louisville, Art Inc. Kentucky-affiliated Aesha N’dao—through her business Aesha’s African Baskets—set out to make a major difference in the lives of women in her home cou...
September 19, 2022
Community Ventures (CV) has, over the years, built a network of individuals (bank loan officers, economic development persons, county Judge Executives) in the 20 counties served by the USDA Delta IRP....
September 07, 2022
Brooke Johnson didn’t expect to find herself living in a small rural town in Bourbon County, but when the perfect opportunity at homeownership through Community Ventures’ Rural Rehab Program prese...
August 31, 2022
When “Sissys” Debbie Nutt Stein and Blakey Nutt Martin decided it was time to take their home-based baking business SissyCakes to the next level, they called on Tom Murro, President of the innovat...
August 22, 2022
When Dr. Michael Karpf joined the University of Kentucky as Vice President for Health Affairs, he brought with him from UCLA the goal of elevating UK’s hospital to the national level and the idea of...
August 16, 2022
Months after a historic night of tornados devastated their Bowling Green duplex, Austin Hyde and girlfriend Andrea Jones were still homeless. Frustrated with hopping from hotel to hotel and finally to...
August 02, 2022
Visual artist Nancy Steele who loves to work on large-scale, abstract pieces, stumbled upon Community Ventures’ Artists’ Village in Lexington’s East End after keying the ‘magic’ keywords of ...
July 27, 2022
When longtime entrepreneurs Kari and Donnie Mullins felt the call to open yet another new business, Kari knew that this time they would need a loan to purchase equipment and furnishings to make this d...