LOUISVILLE, Ky. — At Louisville’s Neighborhood House, food pantry shelves are clearing fast. The multi-generational community center typically serves around 800 families a month — but in the first three days of November alone, they’ve already helped almost 400.
“Neighborhood House is a whole family, multi-generational community center,” Jennie Jean Davidson, the organization’s executive director, said. “We call it ‘from the twinkle to the wrinkle’, and we have programs for everybody from the littlest babies to senior citizens, kid programming, family programming. A lot of meals. A couple of hundred people will come through here every day. 100 of them will have at least one meal. And then we also have an emergency food pantry.”
This month, that emergency pantry is getting a boost from JOAN, a local women’s empowerment organization. Founder Katey Piazza said her group organized a massive food drive — with women across Louisville collecting and donating hundreds of pounds of food to Neighborhood House…