The mission of the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation is to improve the quality of life in Greater Kansas City by increasing charitable giving, connecting donors to community needs they care about, and providing leadership on critical community issues.
The seven founders of the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation passed a hat in 1978, collecting $219.13. The Community Foundation was thus begun with an extraordinary idea: Charitable giving should be the responsibility of many, not just a select few.
Driven to improve the metropolitan area, the Community Foundation has grown to become one of the largest and most entrepreneurial public charities of its kind.
Fort Scott Area Community Foundation welcomed John Bartelsmeyer, Steve Buerge, Lindsay Madison, Dave Martin and Randy Nichols--the new board members of its board of directors during their annual...more
The Community Foundation of Central Missouri was established in June 2010, and the city provided $40000 in funding from its fiscal year 2009 budget as seed money for the foundation. The foundation...more
Henry Bloch announced the Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation during his 90th birthday celebration. The newly formed family foundation inherit all of the couple's personal wealth to improve the...more
Other donors include the law firm of Shook Hardy & Bacon, A. Zahner Co., the Tension Envelope Foundation, the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City, The Kansas City Star books...more
The Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas announced the appointment of Cathy White as its new executive director, saying she has a passion to see the awareness and funding abilities of the...more
Joplin Recovery Fund, in its second round of funding, awarded a total of $1.9 million in grants to five housing projects in Joplin.
Joplin Long-Term Recovery Committee/Rebuild Joplin received the...more
KansasCity.com reports that the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation has appointed Deborah Wilkerson to succeed Laura McKnight as its chief executive of the philanthropic organization. McKnight...more
Her current and past nonprofit board experience includes the Heartland Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors, the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, KU Medical Center...more
The Greater Kansas City Community Foundation manages funds for organizations and smaller cities such as Boonville. Its primary responsibility for the Boonville foundation would be handling...more
•Jan Kreamer is a Kauffman Center board member and former board president and CEO of the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation. •Louis Smith, a member of the Kauffman Center board, is the...more