August 27, 2008
Recent Grants Awarded

• Heather's Camp: $12,500 to provide visually impaired youth an outdoor experience, leading to self confidence, independence and emotional growth in a traditional camp atmosphere.
• Wichita Association for the Deaf: $15,000 for educational expenses for adult deaf persons to attend a series of classes teaching the structure and function of the different parts of American Sign Language, allowing them to better understand both their language and the English language.
• SIDS Network of Kansas: $17,875 to purchase 275 cribs to be given free of charge to low income families with newborn infants in the Wichita area.
• Planned Parenthood of Kansas & Missouri: $8,535 to underwrite prevention education for youth in the Wichita area who are at high risk for sexually transmitted infections. This project involves Youthville, the Salvation Army, KANSEL, Recovery Unlimited, Sedgwick County Juvenile Detention Facility and the Judge Riddel Boys Ranch.
• Share the Season 2008: $20,000 to launch the 8th consecutive year of the Share the Season program. Together with the Salvation Army and the Wichita Eagle, this unique holiday program helps the working poor in our community.
• WSU Center for Community Support & Research: $50,000 in matching funds for the federally-funded Compassion Kansas program which provides capacity building assistance to emerging nonprofits and grassroots organizations.

February 20, 2008
Recent Grant Awards
(Grants are listed in the order awarded)

TRADITIONAL GRANTS:

• Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership: $5,950 for additional capacity building assistance to sixteen nonprofit agencies in the Wichita area.
• HopeNet, Inc.: $25,000 in outright grant funding plus $25,000 in matching funds for the Legacy of Hope pilot project providing timely assessments and recommendations to both the Juvenile Court and parents whose children have been placed in state custody due to abuse, neglect or violence, hopefully leading to increased health and stability in families.
• Wichita TOP Children's Fund: $20,000 in grant funds to underwrite in part the Real Men, Real Heroes project, addressing the critical shortage of male adult role models and limited aspirations in the lives of Wichita's African American boys.
• KMUW: A $20,000 matching grant to aid the public radio station in its signal expansion project.
• Share the Season 2007: $25,000 to help the working poor during the holiday season. This collaborative program is now in its eighth year with the Wichita Eagle and the Salvation Army and raised a record $230,000, helping 280 families this year.
• Wichita Women's Initiative Network, Inc.: $9,750 to launch a pilot project to help at-risk women in transition from abusive situations with reduced-cost car repairs and car maintenance classes, thereby helping them with basic transportation needs.
• Kansas Pediatric Foundation: $25,000 in matching funds for the Turn A Page, Touch A Mind juvenile literacy project.
• Episcopal Social Services: $23,750 to build the agency's capacity and increase its service level to clients through replacement and upgrading of agency computer and software systems.
• Union Rescue Mission: $20,000 to fund a new cargo van which will be used to pick up free food products to feed 200 men each night in the agency's homeless shelter.
• American Lung Association: $10,010 to underwrite an interactive asthma training program for children in the Wichita area.
• Boy Scout Troop 776 in Goddard: $610.00 to underwrite the costs of an Eagle Scout project designed to provide an outdoor pet adoption visiting center at the Kansas Humane Society.
• Sunrise Rotary Club: $15,000 to underwrite the final construction costs of the new Boundless Playground in west Wichita for disabled children.
• Urban League of Wichita: $1,000 to underwrite in part a community health conference targeting 500 at risk women in the Wichita area.
• Kansas Food Bank: $75,000, payable over three years, to help fund the Food 4 Kids program which provides through the schools non-perishable, weekend food for children who are "food insecure," i.e, without adequate food.
• Prairie Elementary, Haysville: $1,600 to underwrite food and supplies for four community gatherings in the coming school year designed to make learning and school a family-centered activity.
• North Heights Christian Church: $25,000 to fund comprehensive research on Black Wichita: 1945-1958, leading to the production of a manuscript focusing on educational, socio-cultural, business, political and religious activity in the African American community in Wichita during this period.

COMMUNITY VENTURE GRANTS: