Audubon Area Community Services, Inc.

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With First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
at The White House, February 8, 1995

Ronald Lee Logsdon
Executive Director

Chartered Community Action Professional || Certified Community Action Professional || Certified Community Action Manager

Ron Logsdon has been Audubon Area Community Services' executive director since its inception in 1975. He had previously served as executive director of the four-county Owensboro parent agency since 1971. Previous to that he had served as a social worker, employment counselor, and pastor of two Southern Baptist churches.
He is a 1965 graduate of William Carey College, Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He also attended Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
Ron is a native of Daviess County, Kentucky. Ron has always been active in community work as well as Audubon. He has been especially active in Kiwanis, Leadership Owensboro, Friendship Force, family research, and various other community betterment projects.


	In 1984-85, he was one of the seven organizers of Leadership Kentucky while then serving part-time as executive director of Leadership Owensboro. Ron served as Chairman of Leadership Owensboro, having begun a two-year term as Chairman in July, 1997, which ended in June 1999. In 1998, he worked with an organizing group forming Leadership West Kentucky

	Logsdon received Leadership Owensboro's *first* Distinguished Leadership Award May 16, 1987. Pictured to the right, Logsdon received the Distinguished Leadership Award at the National Association of Community Leadership Organizations (NACLO) 1987 annual conference. Then Kentucky Governor Martha Layne Collins presented Logsdon the award September 13, 1987 at the Kentucky Center of the Arts.

In 1988-89, he was one of the organizers of Kiwanis International's world-wide service program known as Young Children: PRIORITY ONE. He has served as member and International Chairman for the Kiwanis International committee in charge of the program.

He has served as chairman of three Kiwanis International committees since 1990. In 1987-88, Ron was the Governor of the then 9,000-member Kentucky-Tennessee District of Kiwanis, earning the coveted Distinguished rating. Under his leadership, the Kentucky-Tennessee District was an Honor District, one of five worldwide.
He resigned in September 1998 as editor of the Kentucky-Tennessee District newsletter, K-T Notes, after a ten-year term in that office. Logsdon is also a certified Kiwanis trainer for both club officers training and Kiwanis' Leadership Development Program.

And one of the things which he says most gratifys Logsdon about his Kiwanis experience is his privilege to serve as "historian for life" for the outstanding 1987-88 Kiwanis Class of Governors, the class of governors — for 1987-88, under the leadership of Kiwanis International President Anton J. "Tony" Kaiser of Bethpage, New York, was one of the stellar classes in the history of Kiwanis. The team's (and Kiwanis') theme for that year was "Our Quest: Their Best." "This team also gave its best, and it was a privilege to serve on one of the best teams ever..anywhere, Kiwanis or otherwise," says Logsdon.
When Logsdon began with the Owensboro agency in 1971, he was in charge of thirty staff and a budget of $600,000. Now, with Audubon, he is in general charge of 700+ paid personnel in thirty-four counties and a services budget now well exceeding $50 million.
Key among the professional achievements he is proud of is the fact that the AACS is today one of the most respected CAAs and community-based human services agencies in the country. He has attracted a top-notch staff and the agency has built a solid reputation for excellence and achievement over many years.

*Beloved wife, mother, and friend!* *Devotedly, Ron*		Ron was married to Barbara Elizabeth Mahlinger Logsdon, also a native of Owensboro. Barbara is a career social worker with the Kentucky Cabinet for Families and Children, Department for Community Based Services. Based in Owensboro, she presently is the Family Child Care Certification Worker for the Green River and Lincoln Trail Areas.
			The two products for which they are most proud are their daughter, Sara, 25, and their son, David, 23. Sara and David are December 2002 graduates of the University of Kentucky, Sara with a degree in Psychology, David in Telecommunications. Both graduated from Apollo High School in Owensboro, Sara in the Class of '95, David in the Class of '97.

In 1981, Logsdon served as a Fellow at the National Association of Community Action Agencies (NACAA) in Washington, D.C. While there he wrote (and NACAA published 5,000 copies) "Why Community Action? A Response to the Heritage Foundation Report." NACAA and others credited the report for having a direct impact on "saving" Community Action. That year, the core-network federal funding for CAAs was re-created in the form of the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG), the only funding stream that is common to all CAAs nationwide.