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Founded in 1999, The Howe Charities, Inc. is a grassroots, all volunteer, non-profit organization for humanity. Composed primarily of teachers, we work from our homes –no salaries, no overhead. Like most people, we’ve spent years complaining about injustices, the environment, healthcare, education, social economics, crime and our children’s future. The solution was always the same and the answer very clear. To creatively solve the problems we face, we had to help raise the level of thinking and awareness. We then began raising and distributing funds for powerful, purposeful projects that Inspire, Educate, and Enrich individuals and communities.

The Howe Charities is committed to promoting positive social change through a variety of mediums. The projects we support are as varied as a book on Autoimmune Disease and Environmental Triggers to “Children Helping Children” – an arts group that performs and funds the Hopeline Network for Child Suicide Prevention. This year we have already partnered with Appalshop, Hayes Lewis Elementary and KY Trade Computers to provide a laptop with CD burning capabilities for a “Kids” radio program in Eastern Kentucky. We continue to promote the Arts in Kentucky with the Art’s Showcases and hope to supply funds for the schools this year to bring in Artists, Musicians & Storytellers. We also support writers and musicians working on new and exciting ideas. One of our long term projects is Newton’s Attic. Bill Cloyd, an engineer and former Physics teacher works with students at Tates Creek, Bryan Station Senior and Southside Tech. They imagine, design, build and showcase really incredible devices that show other students the principles of physics such as velocity and force while also teaching practical lessons on, for example, the safety of seats belts. The students are excited, interested and focused on “their” work.

Our most ambitious project to date is the “Tending Your Garden” workbook for spouse abuse centers in Kentucky. Written by a “survivor”, this book raises the bar. It provides the tools necessary for “each women to find hope, inner strength, and new resolve to change the course of her life and that of her children”. In 2004 we achieved our goal of printing 1500 copies and through the Ky Department of Advocacy we distributed these to every spouse abuse center in the state. This year we are working on many wonderful projects, one of the most exciting is The American Chestnut Project - "Our Common Wealth". More about this soon.