CLOUT

Citizens of Louisville Organized and United Together (CLOUT) is a grassroots, community led, non-partisan, nonprofit that has been working in Louisville for 34 years to create systemic change to make Louisville a better and more equitable place.

We’re made up of 24 religious congregations from all parts of the city who have come together to work for improvements on problems such as housing, mental health & addiction, transportation, education,  policing, and many more. We are religiously, racially, and economically diverse and always seek to grow our congregations base. 

We are not a social service organization. We don’t provide services to treat the symptoms of serious community problems. Instead, we find solutions to problems, and we bring together large numbers of people to hold public officials accountable to implement those solutions. Each year, CLOUT’s assembly is the largest gathering of citizens in Louisville to solve serious community problems, with around 1,000 people attending each year. 

As a grassroots organization our work is driven by hundreds of volunteer leaders across the county. Everything we address is surfaced in our annual community-wide listening process and voted on by members. Our research teams and spokespeople are everyday members of our community who are committed to improving Louisville for future generations. The largest part of the CLOUT budget goes to training these grassroots leaders in national best practices for this work.

Our current work:

• We are working with Seven Counties and Metro Council to establish a 24/7 mental health crisis drop-in center.
• We are also continuing our work to ensure best practice reading curriculum is continued to be utilized within JCPS.
• We have secured commitments from Mayor Greenberg to follow through on the reforms of the Consent Decree,  to hire an independent monitor, and establish a community oversight group to track the implementation of the reforms. We are also part of the Mayor's Community safety commission to help oversee this effort and reduce violence in the community.

• The investment of over $110 million into the Louisville Affordable Housing Trust Fund, which has resulted in the creation or preservation of 5,500 (and growing!) units of affordable housing
• The enrollment of over 60,000 additional uninsured children in the KCHIP (Kentucky Child Health Insurance Program)
• The creation of a new TARC circulator bus to the Riverport Industrial Park to improve access to the 7,000 jobs there

Learn more about the impact of our work here!