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Who We Are


Feed Louisville is a support organization for folks living unhoused. Our work is focused on hunger, harm reduction and housing. 

Our full service street outreach team takes hot food, water, supplies and services directly to people living in encampments and on the streets daily around the city of Louisville, Kentucky.  

We have our own team of chefs who prepare thousands of meals a week to support our outreach and housing navigation teams. 

Our team of care coordinators work one on one with folks during temporary hotel stays to assess their needs and help remove blocks to permanent housing. We partner with multiple agencies in the community to provide resources for the various challenges that can be both the cause of, and traumatic response to, homelessness. 

Feed Louisville was founded at the beginning of the pandemic by Chef Rhona Kamar and Donny Greene, a seasoned outreach worker who has been working in solidarity with people experiencing homelessness in our community for years. The work started with a conversation and has grown into a network of chefs, restaurants, food companies, farmers, outreach workers, social workers and countless volunteers who work together daily to stop this humanitarian crisis happening in our city. 

Our Founders

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Donny Greene, Director of Outreach, has worked in solidarity with the houseless community for over 12 years. Before founding Feed Louisville, Donny spent time daily distributing food, snacks and supplies in the camps, along with his teenage children. 

Rhona Bowles Kamar, Executive Director, has worked as a chef and restaurateur in Louisville for over 25 years. Before founding Feed Louisville, she was a chef and co-owner of Ramsi's Cafe on the World and Prana. 

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Click here to meet the rest of our team 


Press

Business First
LDG Development and Feed Louisville have developed a hotel-to-housed program that uses the Arthur Street Hotel at 1620 Arthur St. near the University of Louisville, as a transitional living space to give homeless individuals the time and resources they need to get off the streets.

WDRB news
LDG Development — a company with at least 10 projects around Louisville in which it aims to address the city's affordable housing shortage — purchased the hotel last year and formed a partnership with Feed Louisville. Together, the groups are working to transition people from the streets to permanent housing.

Leo Weekly
Then came COVID-19. Restaurants were closed, the catering business cratered, and in a random encounter she met Donny Greene, a local activist who works in solidarity with Louisville’s houseless community.

The Courier Journal
But in the midst of crushing fear and uncertainty about their own futures, a number of Louisville restaurants and other organizations stepped in to be sure the folks who needed it the most would have access to meals.
​WHAS 11 Great Day Live
Feed Louisville: Restaurants, chefs + home cooks create 500 meals daily for the for those in need. 

Wave 3 News
During the global health crisis caused by COVID-19, Feed Louisville's co-founder says there's a larger need for something like this, so in March they got the organization off the ground.
​www.wave3.com/2020/07/20/louisville-restaurants-providing-warm-meals-homeless-population/?fbclid=IwAR1VGl4cJ7tEK9kirODt8lUJ3iV4WBw-YyDYcGh_CRfB_RGGeYZdFTAfY9g
WLKY News
Since the pandemic, hundreds of meals a day are being passed out to people living on Louisville streets. This is a part of a newer initiative called "Feed Louisville."

​www.wlky.com/article/feed-louisville-initiative-feeds-city-s-homeless-population-daily/32299890
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