Reflecting upon Wednesdays Families Helping Families Event

 

In SLCM Strategic you'll read a quote Michael Harrington who states in his seminal work

The Other America, "It is an ethical proposition, and it can be simply stated: In a nation with a technology that could provide every citizen with a decent life, it is an outrage and a scandal that there should be such social misery....We must perceive passionately, if this blindness is to be lifted from us. A fact can be rationalized and explained away; and indignity cannot."

SLCM whose mission states

To exist as an interfaith association of churches, established to coordinate the efforts of various services to the community in order to enhance the religious, educational, social, health, economic and community development to improve quality and dignity of life.

Simply stated, I could not agree more.  Since the great recession of 2008 cities across America have looked inward for ways to revitalize, renew, and redevelop themselves or whatever you want to call it.  Inwardly urban America is dealing with deteriorating infrastructure, housing in place long after its projected life cycle and thousands of families left behind in America's urban core. The SLCM community of 80,000+ occupies that core and we're the operating paradigm that renews our community.

On February 27 families, many with deep South Louisville roots, corporations such as Churchill Downs, and Saints Mary and Elizabeth Hospital  joined Annual Fund co-chairs Dolores Delahanty and Tim Firkins in what  will be a turning point in South Louisville history.