Children’s Center for the Visually Impaired (CCVI) was recently awarded a $10,000 grant from the American Century Foundation to provide operating support to ensure CCVI can deliver quality programming for children with blindness and visual impairment. Funding will support education programming for children including: provide operating support to ensure...
Children’s Center for the Visually Impaired (CCVI) recently received a grant for $100,000 from the North American Saving Bank to support onsite in-service trainings as well as local, regional, national, and in some cases international outreach opportunities. Funding from the North American Saving Bank will support the cost of...
Children’s Mercy Hospital recently received a grant for $60,253 from the Health Forward Foundation to achieve physical and mental well-being for families, caregivers, and children with medical complexity by providing an eight-week, mindfulness-based stress reduction group for parents. Funding will support staff costs, facility costs (rental space), and program...
Comprehensive Mental Health Services, Inc. (CMHS) was recently awarded a $30,000 grant from the REACH Healthcare Foundation to support outside professional services that will allow CMHS to build and strengthen the essential infrastructure and activities of its development department. CMHS will partner with Encore Nonprofit Solutions (Encore NPS), a leading provider of...
Genesis Promise Academy was recently awarded a $176,890 grant from Jackson County Community Mental Health Fund to support the counseling program. The Counseling Program provides support services for students. Counselors employ Cognitive Behavioral Interventions (CBI) for individual and group therapy. Genesis employs training skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy, focused...
Girls in the Know (GITK) was recently awarded a $5,000 grant from Express Scripts / Cigna to support their 6th annual Knowledge & Power: Small Bites and Big Ideas event. The event will include the unveiling of our #10,000in10 campaign goal of providing our Empowerment Workshop programming...
Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey recently received a grant for $6,748 from the Missouri Arts Council, Education to the support Paseo Project (PP). Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey (KCFAA) will host four two-week residencies of dancers and choreographers at the Paseo Academy of Fine and Performing...
Te Deum was recently awarded a $6,421 grant from the Missouri Arts Council, Annual Grant Program to support the concert series of their two ensembles – Te Deum Chamber Choir and Antiqua. Te Deum’s concerts meet community needs for audiences, choral artists, and the artistic community as a...
Children’s Center for the Visually Impaired (CCVI) was recently awarded a $3,800 grant from the Neighborhood Tourism Development Fund to help sponsor their CCVI Trolley Run. The CCVI Trolley Run will take place April 26, 2020, rain or shine, and raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to provide services critical...