HOKC

Blue Grass Farms Charities, Inc. (BGFC) received a grant from the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels (HOKC) in the amount of $2,755 to purchase 125 backpacks for their Back-to-School Backpack program for the 2025 school year, the organization announced Wednesday. Throughout Fayette, Bourbon, Scott, Clark, Woodford, and Jessamine counties, 1,300 backpacks will be distributed to area farm and track employees this year. BGFC's mission is to provide health and human services to those who work in the Central Kentucky Thoroughbred industry. In total, HOKC awarded $2.5 million in grants supporting...

Blue Grass Farms Charities, Inc., (BGFC) received a $7,247 grant from the Honorable Order Kentucky Colonels (HOKC) to purchase 1,000 backpacks for farm and track workers' children--Kindergarten through Middle School--for the 2021 school year. In total, the HOKC will award $2.1 million in grants supporting 275 non-profits, impacting close to 3.7 million Kentuckians. "When HOKC Trustees met with grant applicants this year, we were reminded how hard the pandemic has made life harder for many folks, from first responders in community service charities to the clients themselves," said HOKC Commanding...