Unless otherwise noted, grants are for one year. 

_{The foundation’s fiscal year (FY) is July 1 through June 30.}

• Caritas Clinics, Inc., Leavenworth - $13,913 for new telephone systems at two clinic sites
• Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of Kansas City, Kansas City - $19,000 for technology upgrades
• Central Kansas Foundation, Salina - $9,085 to evaluate client admissions and develop strategies to enhance access to care
• Cloud County Health Center, Concordia - $20,000 for technology upgrades
• Douglas County Dental Clinic, Inc., Lawrence - $5,000 for new telephone system
• Guadalupe Clinic, Wichita - $4,721 for needs assessment and strategic planning
• Harvey County Health Department, Newton - $15,000 for a community healthcare access needs assessment
• Hays Medical Center, Hays - $19,577 to assess technology status among 20 Critical Access Hospitals in Western Kansas
• Health Ministries Clinic, Newton - $13,996 for telephone and technology upgrades
• Heartland Regional Alcohol and Drug Assessment Center, Roeland Park - $15,000 to evaluate organizational mission and develop systems to measure the impact of core programs and services
• Iroquois Center for Human Development, Inc., Greensburg - $19,973 for technology upgrades
• Kansas Association for the Medically Underserved, Topeka - $19,675 to help support training and technical assistance addressing the application process for community health center funding
• Kansas Association for the Medically Underserved, Topeka - $41,000 to support Kansas Community Health Corps programs
• Kansas University Endowment Association – JayDoc Free Clinic, Kansas City - $13,496 for patient management technology
• Lawrence Memorial Hospital Endowment Association, Lawrence - $9,520 for an assessment of services provided to persons over age 65
• New Frontiers Health Services, Oakley - $8,150 for a needs assessment of those in the community who are uninsured and underinsured
• Pioneer Health Network, Garden City - $9,900 to provide strategic planning and leadership training for network members (17 hospitals in Southwest Kansas)
• Prairie View, Inc., Newton - $19,831 for technology upgrades
• Sedgwick County Health Department, Wichita - $16,253 to assess current programs and the capacity to expand services provided to vulnerable populations
• Southwest Boulevard Family Health Care, Kansas City - $19,460 for telephone and technology upgrades
• Sunflower HIV/AIDS Fund, Inc., Wichita - $13,200 for board development and activities to strengthen community relations and donor support
• Tiyospaye, Inc, Wichita - $19,974 for board development and fund development training
• Turner House Clinic for Children, Kansas City - $9,176 for technology upgrades

• Barton County Health Department, Great Bend - $20,009 for a four-county project to promote walking and healthy eating through multiple intervention sites
• Boy Scouts of America, Coronado Area Council, Salina - $22,403 to promote and implement a new Physical Fitness BSA Award program in 32 counties
• Community Health Coalition for Reno County, Hutchinson - $50,000 to implement and evaluate a worksite wellness program
• Family Service and Guidance Center of Topeka, Inc., Topeka - $10,810 to implement the “Get Moving” program for children 6-12 and their families
• Girl Scouts of Mid-Continent Council, Kansas City - $9,811 to support the “A Healthier You” program to improve physical fitness and nutrition behaviors among Kansas girls 8-12
• Highland Park United Methodist Church, Topeka - $3,627 for a church-based neighborhood program to provide exercise and nutrition classes
• Hodgeman Community Foundation, Jetmore - $28,842 to develop a community wellness facility and promote walking within two small, rural communities
• Holton Community Hospital, Holton - $29,084 to create a partnership between a rural community hospital and two rural school districts to promote healthy eating and physical activity among elementary school children
• Kansas Department of Health and Environment– Bureau of Health Promotion, Topeka - $242,892 for a school-based data collection project to determine the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents K-12 in Kansas
• Kansas Health Institute, Topeka - $55,337 to identify and assess policy initiatives in state legislatures that target obesity and physical inactivity
• Kansas Health Institute, Topeka - $113,775 to conduct and analyze data from a statewide telephone survey to provide statistically valid, state-specific estimates of obesity prevalence and related health behaviors and chronic disease burden, including special attention to minority households
• Kansas Learning Center for Health, Halstead - $16,381 to enhance and develop student curricula related to obesity prevention
• Kansas State Department of Education, Topeka - $97,000 to expand the number of schools participating in the Coordinated School Health Program
• Kansas State Research and Extension (Southwest Area), Liberal - $85,766 to expand and strengthen four physical activity and weight control programs in 15 Southwest Kansas counties
• Kansas State University, Manhattan - $80,487 for a project to survey obesity/overweight status of a targeted community and apply findings to a city redevelopment planning process to influence designs that promote physical activity
• Kansas State University, Counseling Services, Manhattan - $112,209 to access university freshmen regarding exercise, nutrition and stress to provide an intervention for those at risk
• Kearny County Hospital, Lakin - $6,924 to conduct a countywide survey regarding health trends and barriers to physical activity and to create educational programs and interventions to reduce the identified barriers
• National Kidney Foundation of Kansas & Western Missouri, Westwood - $17,372 for a four-county pediatric-focused pilot project addressing treatment skills in the prevention and management of childhood obesity
• Ottawa County Health Planning Commission, Inc., Minneapolis - $44,039 for a multi-agency, countywide program to support healthy eating and physical activity
• Take Charge Challenge, Shawnee Mission - $50,000 to help start a community-based worksite behavior modification program, focusing on physical activity, nutrition and stress management
• University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc., Lawrence - $214,098 to expand “Kansas Get Moving!,” a program focused on increasing physical activity and better nutrition, to six additional sites across the state, with a emphasis on outcomes measurements among an estimated 10,000 elementary student participants
• University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute, Inc., Kansas City - $165,761 to test the effectiveness of an intervention designed to promote the adoption of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) clinical practice guidelines regarding overweight and obesity in adults in eight primary care medical clinics in rural Kansas
• University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita, Department of Preventive Medicine, Wichita - $139,299 to implement and evaluate a walking promotion program in an existing community coalition of youth organizations
• USD 416, Louisburg - $19,550 for a project to promote and measure walking among 1,400 students grades 1-12 and 250 staff members
• USD 431 Education Foundation, Hoisington - $1,063 for teaching tools to augment physical activity and nutrition curriculum of 10th – 12th grade students
• Via Christi Foundation, Inc., Wichita - $24,809 to introduce a daily walking program into the school day and to bring nutrition education into school lunch rooms and during evening sessions with parents, in two parochial schools
• Washburn University, Division of Continuing Education, Topeka - $17,145 to expand “KAN Be Healthy” statewide training to include an exercise and nutrition component
• Wichita YMCA, Wichita - $82,665 to fund activities of a community health and wellness coalition, including a healthy community comparison study and research regarding the status of physical activity and healthy eating in the community

• Tobacco Use Prevention Program/KDHE and the Tobacco Free Kansas Coalition, Statewide – $450,000 to be directed in FY 2005 to community grants programs, youth mini-grants and a statewide program evaluation; the Sunflower Foundation received a $150,000 grant from the American Legacy Foundation, which was matched by a $300,000 Sunflower Foundation grant

• Hutchinson Community Foundation, Hutchinson - $14,456 for the development of a state community foundation association
• Kansas Dental Charitable Foundation, Topeka - $10,000 to help support the Southeast Kansas Mission of Mercy
• Kansas Public Radio, Lawrence - $106,119 to help support the Kansas Health: A Prescription for Change radio health series
• Kansas Statewide Homeless Coalition, Wichita - $1,500 to help support a summit on homelessness in Kansas
• Let’s Help, Inc., Topeka - $25,000 to provide matching funds to help leverage a Mabee Foundation grant for facility construction and renovation
• Meadowlark Hills Retirement Community, Manhattan - $150,000 in collaboration with The Commonwealth Fund and other funders to help create a resident-directed care training program for long term care facilities
• Office of Health Planning and Finance, Topeka - $250,000 to help support a new state initiative designed to engage stakeholders in a process to look for options to address health care costs, access, coverage and quality
• University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute, Inc., Kansas City - $10,000 to support a Kansas-based study to examine health insurance costs and incentives that influence decisions by small business employers and their employees to offer and participate in health insurance