SHPTV Receives Grant from Western Kansas Community Foundation
Foundation: Western Kansas Community Foundation
The Western Kansas Community Foundation has awarded Smoky Hills Public Television with a grant for the station's Literacy Leadership program. The $1,500 grant will provide books to children in...more

MakerSpace program receives a $5000 grant
Foundation: Western Kansas Community Foundation
The grant was awarded to GPMS to assist in its initiative to support girls in engineering and robotics. ABC Pregnancy Care and the Stevens County Health Department also received grants of $2,000 for...more

WKCF distributes more than $21000 in grants
Foundation: Kansas Health Foundation, Western Kansas Community Foundation
The funds come from the Community Betterment Fund, the Kansas Health Foundation Children's Fund, and various Field of Interest and Unrestricted funds for its March grant cycle. The March grant cycle...more

Foundation awards mini-grants to USD 457 teachers
Foundation: Western Kansas Community Foundation
The Garden City Public Schools Foundation on Monday awarded five $200 mini-grants to Garden City USD 457 educators to help them enhance instruction in their classrooms. The foundation received 20...more

Foundation awards mini-grants to USD 457 teachers
Foundation: Western Kansas Community Foundation
Mallory Arellano, Garfield Early Childhood Center teacher, will use her grant to purchase activities and kits to help provide students opportunities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math...more

Leave a Legacy starts endowment fund
Foundation: Western Kansas Community Foundation
After 10 years in existence, the Leave a Legacy Foundation (LLF) has established an endowment fund at the Western Kansas Community Foundation (WCKF). The endowment will be used to help LLF generate...more

Inaugural Match Day nets more than $163000
Foundation: Western Kansas Community Foundation
The organization bills itself as a regional hub for philanthropy that connects individual donors to causes they care about by using the power of collective giving to address the region's greatest...more

Match Day turnout bodes well for local nonprofits
Foundation: Western Kansas Community Foundation
People were in and out of the Western Kansas Community Foundation offices on Main Street Tuesday morning at a frequency that perhaps...more

SPIAA Big Read hosts students
Foundation: Western Kansas Community Foundation
The initial grant for the SPIAA Big Read came from the Western Kansas Community Foundation (WKCF) of Garden City in the amount of $500. Centera Bank (with locations in three SPIAA communities:...more

WKCF's Match Day aims to bolster nonprofits
Foundation: Western Kansas Community Foundation
Western Kansas enthusiasts have an opportunity to make local communities even greater on Match Day, Nov. 28. On that day, qualifying donations to participating organizations could double, thanks to a...more