Louisville Reference Files: S

• Science & Technology
• Social Service Agencies
• Sports

• Air & Space Academy
• Louisville Astronomical Society

• Almost Family, Inc.
• Americana Community Center
• Arcadia Community Center
• Babies Milk Fund Association
• Bellewood Presbyterian Home for Children (See also: Social Service Agencies-Uspiritus)
• Big Brothers Big Sisters
• Bingham Child Guidance Center
• Birth Control (See: Social Service Agencies-Family Planning)
• Boy Scouts
• Boys and Girls Clubs
• Boys' and Girls' Haven
• Braden Center
• Brick House
• Bridgehaven
• Brooklawn (See also: Social Service Agencies-Uspiritus)
• Brown Foundation
• Cabbage Patch Settlement House
• Cedar Lake Lodge
• Center for Nonprofit Excellence
• Center for Women and Families
• Clothesline Project
• CLOUT (Citizens of Louisville Organized and United Together)
• Community Chest (See: Social Service Agencies-Metro United Way)
• Community Coordinated Child Care (4-C)
• Community Farm Alliance
• Community Foundation of Louisville
• Community Health Charities
• Community Living Inc.
• Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA)
• Crusade for Children (See: Social Service Agencies--Kosair Charities)
• Dare to Care
• Day Spring
• Disabilities
• Dismas Charities
• Dosker Manor
• Down Syndrome of Louisville
• Dream Factory
• Dreams with Wings
• Easter Seal Society
• ElderServe (formerly Senior House)
• Exploited Children's Help Organization
• Family & Children's Place (formerly Family & Children's Agency and Family Service Organization)
• Family Planning (includes birth control) (See also: Public Issues--Abortion)
• Family Scholar House (See also: U of L Buildings-Louisville Scholar House)
• General
• Gilda’s Club of Louisville
• Girl Scouts
• Goodwill Industries
• Guardia Care
• Habitat for Humanity
• Healing Place
• Highland Community Ministries
• Hildegard House (See also: Social Services Agencies--Homeless Shelters)
• Home for Incurables (See: Social Service Agencies--Kings Daughters and Sons)
• Home of the Innocents
• Homeless Shelters (See also: Public Issues--Homeless)
• Housing Partnership Inc.
• Human Relations Commission
• Kentucky Harvest
• Kentucky Refugee Ministries
• Kentucky Youth Advocates
• Kings Daughters/Sons (Home for Incurables)
• Kosair Charities (Crusade for Children)
• Legal Aid Society
• Lifehouse Maternity Home
• Little Sisters of the Poor
• Louisville Children's Home (See: Social Service Agencies-Ormsby Village)
• Louisville Central Community Centers (LCCC)
• Louisville Flower Mission
• Louisville Service Club (USO)
• Maryhurst (See also: Religion-Sisters of Our Lady of Charity)
• Masonic Homes
• Metro United Way (Community Chest)
• Morton Center
• Neighborhood Place
• Network Center for Community Changes (NC3)
• New Beginnings Artisans
• New Directions Housing Corp.
• One West Corp.
• Ormsby Village (Louisville Children's Home)
• Orphanages
• Planned Parenthood
• Plymouth Community Renewal Center
• Presbyterian Community Center
• Project Warm
• Recovery, Inc. of Kentucky
• Red Cross
• Ronald McDonald House
• Safe Place
• Salvation Army
• Seniors
• Settlement Houses
• Seven Counties Services
• St. John Center
• St. Joseph's Orphanage
• St. Thomas-St. Vincent Orphanage
• St. Vincent de Paul
• Sunrise Children's Services
• Supplies Over Seas
• Talbot House
• Uspiritus
• Visually Impaired Preschool Services
• Volunteers of America
• WaterStep
• Wayside Christian Mission
• Wesley House Community Services
• West Louisville Talent and Education Center
• Women
• Youth Commission
• YMCA
• YWCA
• Zoom Group

• Arena (See: Sports-NBA or U of L Buildings-KFC Yum! Center)
• Arena Football
• Automobile Racing (See also: Sports-Kentucky Speedway, Sports-Louisville Motor Speedway)
• Baseball (See also: Business and Industry-Hillerich and Bradsby, Cultural and Historical-Louisville Slugger Museum)
• Basketball
• Bellarmine University (See also: Education-Bellarmine University)
• Boxing
• Breeders' Cup
• Derby City BMX
• Extreme Park
• Fencing
• Football (See also: Sports-Toy Bowl)
• General
• Golf
• Harlem Globe Trotters
• High School Sports
• Horse Racing/Equestrian (See also: Business and Industry--Equine, African Americans--Jockeys)
• Ice Hockey
• Kentucky Derby: Early and General
• Kentucky Derby: 1930s-1950s
• Kentucky Derby: 1960s-1970s
• Kentucky Derby: 1980s-2010s
• Kentucky Speedway
• Lacrosse
• Louisville Motor Speedway
• Louisville Sports Commission
• Motocross
• NBA (See also: U of L Buildings--KFC Yum! Center)
• Roller Derby
• Rugby
• Soccer
• Softball
• Swimming and Diving
• Tennis
• Toy Bowl (See also: Sports-Football)
• Volleyball
• Wrestling

Reference files contain newspaper clippings, brochures, flyers, photographs, correspondence, and similar materials that are too small to constitute a collection on their own. Files vary considerably in size, from just a few newspaper clippings to several folders of clippings, letters, memos, photographs, etc. These files may all be accessed on-site in the Archives & Special Collections (ASC) research room. For information on visiting ASC, see our Archives Users' Guide.

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