Events
Come out to support mental health and The Pete Foundation
Eat-UP, Stomp-Down Stigma Week 2020
Eat up at your favorite participating restaurant to rallying around the issue of mental wellness and stomp down on that stigma supporting local businesses! When you order from a participating restaurant, you’ll receive 20% off your purchase of a Mental Health Awareness Flag.
Project Prom 2020
Through March 6th, DJX will be collecting gently used prom dresses, evening gowns, bridesmaids dresses, or anything else appropriate at all area Nu Yale Cleaners locations.
Ladies clean out your closets and donate to this great cause!
Project Prom will be held at The Refinery in Jeffersonville on March 19th from 3PM to 7PM!!
All proceeds benefiting the Pete Foundation
Mental Health Awareness Night with Louisville Bats
Watch the Louisville Bats vs. the Scranton/WB and support Mental Health Awareness, your ticket purchase includes: Game Ticket, Hat, and $5 Donation to organization of your choice.
Step Forward for Mental Health Walk 2019
Walk/run fundraiser with vendors, live music, and other attractions to raise awareness and provide local mental health-related educational classes and support groups.
Hosted by National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Louisville.
Eat Up and Stomp Down Stigma: Pete Foundation's Dine-To-Donate
An annual dining event to raise awareness of the issue of mental health for adolescence and to raise funds for The Pete Foundation!
Dine at one of the participating restaurants and they will donate a percentage their profits to The Pete Foundation at no extra cost to you!
PeteFest 2019- Lineup Reveal & Louisville Silent Disco Party!
Join us for the night full of excitement! We will reveal the PeteFest Music Festival 2019 Full-Lineup, and celebrate with live music by Ocifer & Louisville Silent Disco Party all night long!
We will also have ticket giveaways, and sell discounted PeteFest 2019 tickets/merch items at the event.
This event is FREE!
PeteFest Crew at 2018 Step Forward For Mental Health Walk
The Pete Foundation is a sponsor for this year's Louisville NAMI Step Forward for Mental Health Walk at Harbor Lawn on the Waterfront - come join our team!
Registration:
Sign-up to walk with our PeteFest Crew! Sign up link: http://2018-nami-step-forward-for-mental-health.everydayhero.do/
Why?
To raise funds to provide FREE classes and support in all parts of town for families whose loved ones have mental illness.
To raise awareness that mental illness affects us all.
To show others they are not alone, and there is a community to help them.
To stop the stigma . . . once and for all.
Location/Parking:
The Walk takes place at the Harbor Lawn of Waterfront Park on the river. The address for the Green Parking Lot is 300 River Road. It is free to park there for the NAMI group. Additionally, Waterfront Park offers 7 parking lots, participants can park along the Waterfront side (north side) of River Road (meters are enforced on Saturday we’re told), and there is a surface lot across from the Great Lawn.
University of Louisville Out of the Darkness Campus Walk
The Pete Foundation proudly sponsors the University of Louisville AFSP Out of the Darkness Campus Walk 2018. Out of the Darkness Campus Walks raise awareness about suicide and help raise funds for suicide prevention work in the community and the nation.
PeteFest Poster Inspiration Unveiling
With a focus toward today’s youth, their expression through art, and their power to stomp the stigma surrounding mental health, The Pete Foundation and PeteFest Music Festival are proud to host a "poster competition" for middle- and high-school students in Louisville. All students grades five through twelve were encouraged to submit a piece of art that would be the inspiration for the official 2018 PeteFest poster.