More Than A Smile Foundation
Diverse women gathered together, smiling and empowered at a community event

Women & Families

Women building connection and opportunity

More Than A Smile Foundation creates welcoming, culturally responsive opportunities for women and families in Louisville to connect, learn, and lead.

Our Commitment

Community-led support, grounded in dignity

Women and families bring knowledge, resilience, and lived experience to their communities. Our role is to create spaces where those strengths are recognized and relationships can grow.

Programs are shaped around connection, practical learning, peer support, and access to trusted resources. Activities and participation are shared as they are confirmed through program records.

We work with community members and appropriate partners to offer culturally responsive opportunities while reporting outcomes only when they are documented and verified.

Diverse women laughing and celebrating together at a community gathering
Mothers and children smiling together outdoors at a community park

Our Programs

Our pillars of women's empowerment

Lead & Inspire

Leadership Development

Leadership activities create space for women to explore communication, civic participation, and community leadership. Topics, formats, and participant pathways are shared as programming is confirmed.

Leadership Development
Leadership Development
Wellness & Mental Health
Wellness & Mental Health

Heal & Grow

Wellness & Mental Health

Wellness activities offer culturally responsive opportunities for connection, peer support, and conversation. More Than A Smile Foundation provides non-clinical support and care navigation, with counseling, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment provided by qualified behavioral-health partners.

Build & Earn

Economic Empowerment

Practical learning opportunities may include digital literacy, financial learning, resume support, career exploration, and small-business information. Referrals to specialized services, employers, and funding opportunities are offered through appropriate partners when available.

Economic Empowerment
Economic Empowerment
Mentorship & Community
Mentorship & Community

Connect & Belong

Mentorship & Community

Peer connection and mentorship opportunities help women build relationships rooted in shared experience, cultural understanding, and mutual respect. Participation formats and mentorship practices are shared as they are confirmed.

Women in Our Community

Faces of strength

Diverse women laughing and celebrating together at a community gathering

Joy as resistance

Immigrant women sharing and cooking traditional cultural foods together in a community kitchen

Culture kept alive

Woman speaking confidently at a community nonprofit event

Finding her voice

Mothers and children smiling together outdoors at a community park event

Families, whole and thriving

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