| FY 2003 Grants and Initiatives Unless otherwise noted, grants are for one year.
The foundation’s fiscal year (FY) is July 1 through June 30. ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE
- Cover the Uninsured Week Coalition, Topeka - $14,203 to increase public awareness about the uninsured in Kansas
- Kansas Non Profit Association, Topeka - $3,579 for distribution of a statewide survey addressing health insurance among Kansas nonprofit organizations
- Kansas Oral Health Coalition, Topeka - $75,000 to support the development of a broad coalition to address oral health needs in Kansas
- Medical Service Bureau, Wichita - $63,000 for nonprofit pharmacy expansion
Capacity Building
- All Faith Counseling Center of Atchison, Atchison - $12,500 for strategic planning
Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center, Lawrence - $5,752 for information management training
- Breakthrough Club of Sedgwick County, Wichita - $8,093 for technology upgrades
- Caritas Clinics, Inc., Leavenworth - $3,000 for staff compliance, technology and leadership training
- Catholic Charities of Salina, Inc., Salina - $8,304 for fund development training and strategic planning
- Central Kansas Foundation, Salina - $5,945 for technology upgrades
- Community Health Council, Inc., Manhattan - $3,407 for strategic planning
- Cowley County Mental Health and Counseling Center,Winfield - $10,000 for technology upgrades
- Douglas County AIDS Project, Lawrence - $6,760 for technology upgrades
- Douglas County Dental Clinic, Inc., Lawrence - $10,008 for technology upgrades
- ElderCare, Inc., Great Bend - $2,998 for technology upgrades
- Family Service and Guidance Center of Topeka, Inc.,Topeka - $8,183 for management development
- Gerard House, Inc., Wichita - $7,610 for fund development training
- Great Plains of Greeley County, Inc., Tribune - $9,510 for strategic planning, leadership development and reimbursement training
- Guadalupe Clinic, Wichita - $9,822 for technology upgrades
- Health Care Access, Inc., Lawrence - $7,605 for technology upgrades
- Health Ministries Clinic, Newton - $6,728 for strategic planning, fund development training and technology upgrades
- Health Partnership Clinic of Johnson County, Overland Park - $7,055 for technology upgrades
- Homecare & Hospice, Inc., Manhattan - $9,845 for technology upgrades
- Hunter Health Clinic, Wichita - $8,832 for technology upgrades
- Iroquois Center for Human Development, Inc.,Greensburg - $8,985 for HIPAA training
- Jayhawk Area Agency on Aging, Inc., Topeka - $1,116 for fund development training
- Kansas Association for the Medically Underserved,Topeka - $192,000 for Web-based extranet development, "Kansas Community Health Corps Program" expansion and "Health Professional Placement Program" expansion
- Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, Topeka - $9,941 for leadership development
- Kearny County Hospital, Lakin - $9,648 for governance development and strategic planning
- La Familia Senior/Community Center, Wichita - $10,967 for technology upgrades
- Marian Clinic, Topeka - $10,000 for technology upgrades
- Meals on Wheels of Shawnee and Jefferson Counties,Inc., Topeka - $2,185 for management development
- Medical Service Bureau, Wichita - $10,000 for technology upgrades
- Miami County Mental Health Center, Paola - $10,000 for software training
- Pawnee Mental Health Services, Inc., Manhattan - $5,998 for management development
- Sedgwick County Health Department, Wichita - $10,000 for evaluation and development of client billing systems
- Southwest Boulevard Family Health Care, Kansas City - $10,000 for technology upgrades and staff training
- The Villages, Inc., Topeka - $9,940 for technology upgrades
- United Methodist Health Clinic of Wichita, Inc., Wichita - $10,000 for technology upgrades
- University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita / Wichita Medical Practice Association, Wichita - $5,156 for technology upgrades
- We Care Project, Inc., Great Bend - $10,000 for technology upgrades
- Wheat State Manor, Whitewater - $10,000 for workforce development and technology upgrades
- Wilson County Hospital, Neodesha - $10,000 for strategic planning
Reducing the Prevalence of Obesity
- Alliance for a Healthy Community/Salina Area United Way, Salina - $55,400 for "Fit for Life Coalition" planning project to promote increased physical activity and healthy eating habits in targeted Saline County student populations
- Crawford County Health Department, Pittsburg - $9,206 for "Walk Through the Pyramid" program and physical activity educational materials
- Florence Crittenton Services, Topeka - $7,684 to develop and implement an obesity reduction curriculum and create a support system for residents in transition
- Girl Scouts of Kaw Valley Council, Topeka - $2,500 to develop an obesity awareness curriculum and mentoring program between high school aged and younger girls
- Hospital District #1 of Crawford County, Girard - $8,280 to implement a school-based "Dine-O-Might" nutrition and physical activity program
- Kansas Department of Health & Environment, Bureau for Children, Youth & Families, Topeka - $13,100 to implement and evaluate nutrition/physical activity curriculum in the WIC setting
- Kansas Department of Health & Environment, Bureau of Health Promotion, Topeka - $242,893 for a three-year school-based project to collect data on children K-12 to determine the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents in Kansas
Kansas Health Institute, Topeka - $5,000 for health policy forum, "The Obesity Epidemic: Can Public Policy Play a Role?"
- Kansas Health Institute, Topeka - $55,337 to identify obesity-related public initiatives in states and communities and to assess their implementation costs and program effectiveness
- Kansas Health Institute, Topeka - $113,775 to conduct a statewide telephone survey to provide estimates of obesity prevalence and related health behaviors and chronic disease burden
- Leavenworth USD 453/Anthony School, Leavenworth - $59,678 for a pilot school-based nutrition and physical activity program
- Manhattan High School/USD 383 Manhattan-Ogden, Manhattan - $46,185 for a pilot physical activity program for targeted youth
- Statewide Obesity Planning Initiative - $200,000 for the development of a state plan to address the growing burden of health disease related to obesity and overweight
- University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc., Lawrence - $120,156 to train physicians and allied health care providers on delivering physical activity and health eating interventions
- University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute, Inc., Kansas City - $149,671 to survey physicians and patients in rural Kansas to determine obesity prevalence and to evaluate physician-patient discussions of weight
Special Projects
- Midway-Kansas Chapter, American Red Cross, Wichita - $34,000 to leverage a challenge grant
- Midwest Bioethics Center, Kansas City - $35,000 to raise public awareness about caregiving through the "And Thou Shalt Honor" Coalition
- The Guidance Center, Leavenworth - $20,000 to leverage a challenge grant
- University of Kansas Institute for Educational Research and Public Service, Lawrence - $30,000 to partner with other funders on an after school program
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