Wichita Community Foundation (KS)




Assets and Giving for Wichita Community Foundation

Assets

2019 - 87,158,416
2018 - 79,773,789
2017 - 67,295,646
Domestic Grants

2019 - 4,350,435
2018 - 4,388,946


    

Recent News from Wichita Community Foundation


Dress for Success leader takes new job with Community Foundation
Foundation: Wichita Community Foundation

The Wichita Community Foundation has hired one person and promoted another as part of a plan to increase its philanthropic impact. WCF...more

Riverfront Legacy group stresses urgency, transparency in defining development
Foundation: Wichita Community Foundation

... of the plan's creation are the Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce, Visit Wichita, Downtown Wichita and the Wichita Community...more

Wichita business, civic groups are uniting to design public riverfront development
Foundation: Wichita Community Foundation

Community organizations including Downtown Wichita, Greater Wichita Partnership, Visit Wichita, Wichita Community Foundation, and the...more

Westar parent company awarding scholarships to students in 3 NE Wichita zip codes
Foundation: Wichita Community Foundation

Working with the Wichita Community Foundation, Evergy is awarding 10, ... live in zip codes 67208, 67214 and 67219 through the Evergy Scholarship Fund. ... fund at the Wichita Community Foundation to...more

Westar announces scholarships for northeast Wichita residents
Foundation: Wichita Community Foundation

Westar is also establishing a $1 million fund at the Wichita Community Foundation which will serve residents in the same northeast Wichita zip...more

Westar launches community fund, scholarship program after power-pole backlash in NE Wichita
Foundation: Wichita Community Foundation

Westar Energy announced a contribution of more than $1 million in Wichita Community Foundation funds for grants and scholarships to benefit...more

Project Wichita takes next step with high-profile advancement team
Foundation: Wichita Community Foundation

... Wichita; Ronn McMahon, president and CEO of the Greater Wichita YMCA; and Shelly Prichard, president of the Wichita Community...more

Abortion flap could cost Kansas governor her commerce chief
Foundation: Wichita Community Foundation

According to the Wichita Community Foundation, which administers the Tiller fund, its first grant to Thrive Allen County, in 2015, was $9,380. It went...more

Bagby and Watermark earn accolades
Foundation: Wichita Community Foundation

Working with the Wichita Community Foundation, Watermark helps send authors to Title I elementary schools – which have a high percentage...more

Philanthropist again funds Wichita Art Museum admissions
Foundation: Wichita Community Foundation

Sandlian has donated $1 million to the Wichita Community Foundation to establish an endowed fund for the museum to continue free...more



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To address the ongoing issue of student dropouts, Toronto District School Board (TDSB) teacher Craig Morrison started a school-business program called the Oasis Skateboard Factory (OSF) to help keep teens stay in school.




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