Thank you to all of our Community Sponsors
As Community Sponsors, these esteemed businesses and community leaders help make our mission possible. Their support through either sponsorship or funding from a grant allows us to continue and expand our local programming – from our school-based program, Books as Bridges, to our local bookshelf donation program, Books in the Bluegrass. The International Book Project is grateful to our Community Sponsors that you share our values and the belief that the presence of books in our lives improves literacy rates, educational levels, and creates economic opportunity.
Grants
The Rotary Club of Lexington is a diverse group of professionals devoted to fulfilling the purpose of Rotary International. In 2025, the Rotary Club of Lexington provided a grant to support a shipping fund to send books to students in Kentucky.
LexArts is greater Lexington’s official local arts agency and United Arts Fund creating opportunities for quality arts experiences in central Kentucky through leadership, funding, advocacy, programming, and communication. LexArts has provided funding support for the 2025 Lexington Globetrotters summer camp through its annual Fund for the Arts campaign.
In 2025, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government provided a grant to support IBP’s Globetrotters summer camp in Lexington.
The Honorable Kentucky Colonels Good Works Program annually provides over $2 million in grants to Kentucky nonprofits that together help over 3.9 million individuals. Since 1951, the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels has granted $55 million to more than 1,600 nonprofits. These grants are entirely dependent on the support of over 30,000 active Colonels throughout the world, who have chosen to continue their charitable efforts through contributions to help Kentuckians.
Blue Grass Community Foundation has funded many projects over the years for International Book Project including providing seed money to create our Globetrotters free summer camp program in 2019. Our program has grown two weeks each summer and in 2022, Blue Grass Community partnered us with Robert L. Brown Foundation to bring Globetrotters to Sharpsburg, KY. Additionally, we have received funding from their Early Childhood Literacy grant program. In 2025, Blue Grass Community Foundation partnered us with the Clark County Community Foundation to bring our Globetrotters summer camp to Clark County.
The Snowy Owl Foundation was founded in 2010 to support land, arts, education, and human need with imagination by providing nourishment to good organizations. Snowy Owl currently supports IBP’s Books as Bridges program.
The Blue Grass Charity Foundation supports Blue Grass charities through lifelong philanthropy and celebrates young women as they begin to make their own positive impact in the community. The Blue Grass Charity Foundation recently provided support for our 2025-26 Books as Bridges program.
LG&E and KU have a steadfast and unwavering commitment to the communities they serve. We invest in the improvement of the quality of life in our communities. Our focus areas are economic development, education, environment, and diversity. LG&E and KU funds our Globetrotters popular summer camp program which is open to 8 to 10 year old students at no cost to their families.
Read to Grow promotes language skills and literacy for children, beginning at birth, and supports parents as their babies’ first teachers. In the last 20 years, Read to Grow has donated 2.3 million books and served nearly 1.5 million people. Read to Grow supported multiple international shipments, including shipments to Rwanda and North Macedonia.
Community Sponsors
Traditional Bank is an independent, community bank with 19 locations in 8 Kentucky counties. In 2025, Traditional Bank served as a sponsor for the Clark County Globetrotters camp.
Clay Ingels is known throughout central and eastern Kentucky as a major supplier of quality building products. The company, after outgrowing two locations, has expanded to include both retail and wholesale divisions, carrying not only masonry products, but also several lines of windows, doors and hardware.
VisitLEX is Lexington’s convention and visitors bureau. It is a standalone organization that promotes convention and tourist activities and facilities. VisitLEX regularly markets the community to meeting planners, travel writers, film scouts, and more. In addition to IBP, it has recently supported The Lexington Children’s Museum, DV8 Vocational Training Foundation, Pride Festival, the African American Heritage Walking Tour, and many other organizations, festivals, and activities in and around Lexington.
Peoples Exchange Bank has served central Kentucky communities-since 1912, with a personal approach to banking, offering a combination of technology, convenience and service.
Salomon & Company is an independent wealth planning firm. Locally owned and operated. Salomon has assisted clients in working toward their financial goals for over 40 years. Salomon is a longtime supporter and International Book Project is grateful for its commitment to our mission and the financial support of its employees.
Through Tiffany Cares, Tiffany & Co sponsors employees’ philanthropic efforts by matching employee donations (dollar for dollar) and personal volunteer hours ($20/hour) at eligible charitable organizations or local equivalent. They also host employee volunteer events throughout the year.
Besten & Dieruf has earned an excellent reputation in Central Kentucky as an independent, full service accounting and business consulting firm.
Keystone Financial Group (KFG) was founded in Lexington, Kentucky in June of 2008. The vision of the founding partners was to become an independent firm where the focus is centered on the client. Being an Independent firm means KFG advisors have access to objective research and a variety of investment opportunities to meet each client’s investment objectives. In doing so, Keystone offers a wide range of financial services to help strategically plan, preserve and proactively manage clients’ assets for the short and long term.
