If you have ever walked into FIESTA NKY on a food distribution day, one of the first things you might notice is that it isn’t very quiet. There is music playing, people laughing, volunteers teasing each other as they work, conversations happening in both Spanish and English and, more often than not, someone trying to […]
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Fiesta NKY gets $2,500 from Spectrum to support services
Spectrum donated $2,500 to Fiesta NKY, a Boone County-based nonprofit that provides various services, including food distributions, to the local Latino community last week. The award was presented to organization leaders just before the agency’s most recent food distribution event. “This donation will help expand access to culturally relevant food and strengthen FIESTA NKY’s ongoing […]
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Federal funding freeze, now rescinded, causes confusion in NKY: ‘uncertainty and chaos’
Anxiety and confusion. Those are the emotions Northern Kentucky nonprofit and education leaders are feeling after President Donald Trump’s budget office announced an order Monday freezing spending on federal grants, which a federal judge then blocked until Feb. 3, only for the administration to rescind the the order Wednesday. The memo sent from Trump’s budget […]
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Back-to-school event in Boone County offers supplies, resources for Latinx families
FIESTA NKY and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicaid of Kentucky are hosting a back-to-school event on Aug. 10 to provide school supplies and resources to Latinx families in Boone County, with an interpreter available for translation and a free yoga class available.
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Florence nonprofit fills service gaps for NKY’s Hispanic, Latino communities
FIESTA NKY was created to provide food, clothing and resource coordination for the Hispanic and Latino communities in Northern Kentucky, and has since provided clothing to over 300 people, started an on-site emergency food pantry, coordinated resources, partnered with local agencies, and held food distribution events and other community events.
