WHOLE HEALTH
FOR EVERY BODY.

Tip it forward

From the beginning, Tip It Forward was built on a simple conviction: compassionate care changes lives, and that change multiplies. We have seen it. On therapy tables, in classrooms, and in community spaces, one person exhaling, then another, then a whole circle remembering what it feels like to be supported.

After several meaningful years serving our community, Tip It Forward (TIF) will be concluding operations effective December 31st, 2025. The environment around us has shifted, and rather than continue without the financial stability required to sustain our mission, the Board of Directors has determined that dissolution is the most responsible course forward.

This decision comes with gratitude for what has been created and with trust in where the work goes next.

Over the past eleven years, Tip It Forward has:

• Over the past eleven years, because of your support:
  • Thousands received free and low-cost massage therapy and integrative wellness services
  • Nurses, social workers, therapists, and community leaders were trained in trauma-informed, whole-person care
  • Partnerships across Louisville helped make wellness more accessible and community centered
  • A model of care was built that bridged clinical and community spaces, proving healing belongs everywhere.

This work didn’t just serve individuals; it shifted culture. It modeled what healing can look like when dignity leads and access follows. It gave local practitioners a shared language of compassion. It allowed institutions to see that wellness isn’t a luxury, but infrastructure for thriving communities.

Closure does not end a mission like ours. Tip It Forward was always more than a single organization. It is a way of showing up. If you received care here, if you learned here, if you supported this work—you carry it now. Take it into your families, your clinics, your classrooms, your teams, your block. Keep choosing practices that center dignity, presence, and healing. That is how this story continues.

What happens next

• We will fulfill all outstanding commitments and communicate directly with participants and partners.

• Remaining assets will be distributed to nonprofit organizations whose missions align with whole-person, trauma-informed care.

• A final community report will be shared to celebrate and document the impact of this work.

Thank you to every donor, practitioner, volunteer, and partner who believed in this vision. Your generosity became care. Your care became capacity. And that capacity now lives in the people and practices continuing the work across our city.

If you have questions or would like to stay connected to future efforts inspired by Tip It Forward, please reach out to us at connect@tipitforward.org.

With gratitude,
The Tip It Forward Board of Directors

Therapists with TIF is an initiative to unite the therapist community and advocate for the power of therapeutic touch. Thank you for joining us in supporting the Tip It Forward mission to raise awareness of the holistic healing we all bring to our community! 

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