LOUISVILLE,Ky — For numerous nonprofits, the last couple of years have actually been challenging with less individuals able to return.
Some companies even getting near closing down for good. Thankfully for Kentucky’s just not-for-profit cat coffee shop, they’ll have the ability to keep serving the neighborhood.
What You Need To Know
- Lucky Cat Cafe is Kentucky’s just not-for-profit cat coffee shop
- Recently the coffee shop’s creator required to social networks, requesting contributions to keep the not-for-profit in business
- The neighborhood stepped up, the coffee shop will remain moneyed into next year
- The coffee shop has actually assisted more than 600 animals get embraced
“We’re going to be able to stay open,” said Karla Spencer, creator of Lucky Cat Cafe in Louisville. “At least the rest of this year and a good chunk of next year too, and that allows us time to go ahead and put some of those long term changes that we talked about into place.”
Spencer opened Lucky Cat Cafe in 2018. It’s among just 4 coffee shops in the whole state. The coffee shop permits individuals to pay an hourly charge to go to with rescue cats who are up for adoption. To date, more than 600 cats have actually been embraced.
Karla Spencer opened Lucky Cat Café in 2018 (Spectrum News 1/ Mason Brighton)
“Our mission is adoptions, getting cats out of bad situations, there’s all kinds of bad situations for cats, and we want to save them if we can, get them here, and find them a new home,” Spencer said.
However, in May, that objective came under hazard. Spencer discusses increasing expenses and inflation have actually put the coffee shop in a rough area economically, and they may need to close down prior to year’s end.
“Those expenses were really just starting to kill us and I was having to go into our savings more to cover,” Spencer said.
It led Spencer to make a plea online, requiring to Facebook to request for contributions.
And certainly, the neighborhood rallied.
“We know that the community wants us so that’s the great thing, the community has responded, they want us to stay open so we are, we’re staying open,” Spencer said.
Spencer said moving on, she and the not-for-profit’s board are taking a look at brand-new methods to fundraise and guarantee this does not take place once again.
Lucky Cat Cafe is far from the only location feeling the pressures of the post-pandemic economy. Christina Miller, Marketing and Communications Director for the Community Foundation of Louisville says it’s all connected to the economy.
“Here the past couple years, so 2022, 2021, what we’ve seen is that those giving trends actually kind of follow the markets, so when the market is down then giving is down,” Miller said.
Miller includes there are methods to help locations survive, such as alternative methods to fundraise. This consists of Give For Good, the Community Foundation’s annual online day of offering.
“They have the chance for their donations to their favorite organizations to be boosted by thousands of dollars throughout the day,” Miller said.
That campaign has actually assisted raise over $50 million considering that beginning 10 years back.
