Rhonda's Another Chance

About Rhonda's Another Chance

Rhonda's Another Chance is a Louisville, Kentucky nonprofit that has operated recovery and transitional housing for women in the western part of the city since 2000, and its work extends past housing into education support.

A Nonprofit Built Around a Single Mission

This is a nonprofit organized to serve one population in one place, and its charitable status carries obligations a private landlord does not have: a board, public filings and a stated mission the organization has to answer to. For a woman comparing operators, that structure means decisions about admission and discharge answer to something beyond occupancy.

Education Support as Part of the Program

The organization funds a scholarship for residents continuing into higher education, and it raises the money for it through community events. Very few recovery housing operators of this size carry a scholarship fund at all. It signals what the operator measures success by, and a prospective resident who intends to go back to school should ask how the scholarship is awarded and what completing the housing program requires.

Twenty-Five Years in West Louisville

A small operator earns longevity; it cannot claim it. Operating continuously since 2000 in west Louisville means this organization has held a property, a donor base and a resident program together through several economic cycles, and it has accumulated relationships with local providers, courts and employers that a newer operator has to start building from nothing.

Certification and a Kentucky Nonprofit Operator

Nonprofit status and recovery residence certification are separate things: one is a tax classification, the other is a housing standard. Kentucky requires the second of every recovery residence, so certification through the Kentucky Recovery Housing Network is a distinct question worth putting to any nonprofit operator, however long it has been established.