Unless otherwise noted, grants are for one year.
_{Note: The foundation’s fiscal year (FY) is July 1 through June 30.}

Bridge Grants

• Cloud County Health Center, Concordia - $100,000 to add a family practitioner (two-year grant)
• Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas, Pittsburg - $100,000 to add a dentist and dental hygienist
• Dickinson County Health Department, Abilene - $21,879 to add two nurses and one social worker at a clinic in Herrington
• Flint Hills Community Health Center, Emporia - $100,000 to add a family practitioner
• GraceMed, Inc., Wichita - $100,000 to add medical and dental staff
• Health Ministries Clinic, Newton - $100,000 to add a nurse practitioner (two-year grant)
• Marian Clinic, Topeka - $45,312 to add a dentist, dental hygienist and social worker
• Pawnee Mental Health Services, Inc., Manhattan - $100,000 to add a child psychiatrist
• Rural Health Resources of Jackson County, Inc., Holton - $97,055 to add a nurse and nurse practitioner
• Shawnee County Health Agency, Topeka - $94,332 to add one licensed clinical social worker and one psychologist

Health Disparities Grants

• American Lung Association of Kansas, Topeka - $39,922 to develop a smoking cessation program for Native American smokers, in partnership with Haskell Indian Nations University and the University of Kansas School of Medicine (two-year grant)
• Hunter Health Clinic, Wichita - $20,000 to expand Asian-American/Pacific Islanders interpreter services
• Jewish Vocational Service, Kansas City - $20,000 to strengthen cultural competency among health providers working with limited English-proficient clients in three sites in South Central, East Central and Southwest Kansas
• Kansas Health Institute, Topeka - $4,475 to print the data book, Racial and Ethnic Minority Health Disparities in Kansas, summarizing the findings on health disparities from the Minority Health Research Project

Assessment and Organizational Development Grants

• Caritas Clinics, Inc., Leavenworth - $10,000 for technology evaluation and upgrades of patient database and financial software
• Catholic Charities of Salina, Inc., Salina - $8,850 for telephone system and equipment upgrades
• Catholic Charities, Inc., Topeka - $11,486 for computer and server upgrades and related staff training
• Central Kansas Foundation for Alcohol and Chemical Dependency, Salina - $18,128 for information system upgrades related to data management, data analysis and quality improvement
• Central Plains Regional Health Care Foundation, Wichita - $75,000 in support of a project to link patient information among five community clinics and Project Access (three-year grant)
• Community Health Center, Hutchinson - $15,000 for grant writing technical assistance to support a federal grant application
• Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas, Pittsburg - $15,895 for technology and management technical assistance
• Cowley County Mental Health and Counseling Center, Winfield - $20,000 for software upgrades related to billing, scheduling, records and communications
• East Central Kansas Area Agency on Aging, Ottawa - $8,490 for telephone system upgrades
• Family Service and Guidance Center of Topeka, Inc., Topeka - $20,000 for a mail server to centralize scheduling
• Good Samaritan Clinic/World Impact, Inc., Wichita - $16,025 for practice management technology upgrades
• GraceMed, Inc., Wichita - $15,000 for grant writing technical assistance to support a federal grant application
• Harper Hospital District #5, Harper - $18,000 to audit and upgrade technology to enhance electronic security and integration with a remote clinic site (Argonia)
• Harvey County Health Department, Newton - $15,000 for grant writing technical assistance to support a federal grant application
• Health Care Access, Inc., Lawrence - $8,893 for organizational planning, staff and board development
• Integrated Behavioral Technologies, Inc., Eudora - $19,625 to evaluate and enhance organizational training
• Jefferson County Memorial Hospital, Winchester - $20,000 to replace and upgrade information technology
• Kansas Association for the Medically Underserved, Topeka - $8,000 for grant review technical assistance to support the federal grant applications of member clinics
• Kansas Association for the Medically Underserved, Topeka - $62,500 to assist the continuation and expansion of the Kansas Community Health Corps/AmeriCorps program
• Kansas Association of Centers for Independent Living, Salina - $17,500 for management and governance development of the Kansas Youth Leadership Forum
• Kansas Association of Local Health Departments, Topeka - $92,400 for the development of maternal and infant clinic software for statewide use, tested initially in four counties
• Kansas Statewide Homeless Coalition, Topeka - $12,875 for organizational evaluation and strategic planning
• Morris County Hospital, Council Grove - $19,100 to upgrade communication and scheduling technology
• Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg - $20,000 for practice management software to coordinate care between student health services and university counseling services (two-year grant)
• Riverview Community Services, Kansas City - $6,800 to upgrade prescription drug program technology
• Shawnee County Health Agency, Topeka - $20,000 for a comprehensive organizational evaluation, community needs assessment and strategic planning
• Stanton County Health Care Facility, Johnson City - $20,000 for a telephone system
• Sunflower Diversified Services, Great Bend - $20,000 for telephone system upgrades
• The Virginia Brown Community Orthodontic Partnership, Kansas City - $22,900 to develop a Web-based patient management system
• TLC for Children and Families, Inc., Olathe - $12,025 to upgrade client management technology and telephone system
• Topeka AIDS Project, Topeka - $16,106 for financial management technology upgrades, program evaluation and board development

Kansas Community Foundation Initiative (a partnership to enhance local efforts to build capacity for health and human services organizations)

• Abilene Community Foundation, Abilene - $5,250
• Coffeyville Area Community Foundation, Coffeyville - $12,503
• Community Foundation of Southwest Kansas, Dodge City - $5,144
• Greater Salina Community Foundation, Salina - $52,328 (three-year grant)
• Hutchinson Community Foundation, Hutchinson - $87,150 (two-year grant)
• Topeka Community Foundation, Topeka - $125,450 (three-year grant)

Special Events

• Grantee Workshop, September 15, 2004 – Storytelling as Best Practice

School, Community and Worksite Grants

• El Centro, Inc., Kansas City - $47,676 for a Healthy Habits, Healthy Latinos physical activity and nutrition program (two-year grant)
• Girl Scouts of Kaw Valley Council, Topeka - $8,771 for a Shape Up! physical activity and nutrition program for girls 5-17 in four activity center sites
• Healthy Kids Challenge, Dighton - $182,300 for a Kansas Kids C.A.N. program for approximately 10,550 children grades K-5 in Southwest and West Central Kansas (three-year grant)
• Junction City-Geary County Health Department, Junction City - $5,000 for a planning grant to develop the Geary County On the Move physical activity and nutrition program
• Kansas Health Institute, Topeka - $94,985 to conduct a comprehensive assessment of how current school district and school level physical activity and nutrition policies affect school environment
• Kansas State Department of Education, Topeka - $4,289 to support a statewide meeting for education and health organization leaders to obtain input on model school wellness policy guidelines
• Kansas State Department of Education, Topeka - $150,000 to expand and implement Coordinated School Health and Team Nutrition projects in Kansas schools (two-year grant)
• Kansas State Research and Extension, Manhattan - $70,000 to develop walking trail programs statewide through local 4-H Clubs and other youth groups (two-year grant)
• Lane County Health Department, Dighton - $5,000 for a planning grant to develop a staff wellness program and a physical activity and nutrition program in an after school setting
• Mid-America Coalition on Health Care, Kansas City - $36,575 to conduct a Healthy Lifestyles Employee Attitudinal Survey of over 75,000 Kansas employees to measure attitudes and receptivity towards employer interventions aimed at changing unhealthy behaviors
• Rawlins County Health Department, Atwood - $5,000 for a planning grant to develop a senior citizen physical activity program and a nutrition program for children and adults
• USD 313, Buhler - $34,360 for a Foundation for Fitness after school program for students K-6 (two-year program)
• USD 376, Sterling - $5,000 for a planning grant to develop the Sterling Wellness for Life program
• USD 453/Anthony Elementary School, Leavenworth - $104,628 to expand the Eat, Exercise, Excel physical activity and nutrition program (two-year grant)

Walking Trails

• Bird City Century II Development Foundation, Bird City - $15,000 to develop a quarter mile trail at Bird City Park
• Hesston College, Hesston - $15,000 to establish a two-mile trail between several intergenerational community facilities
• Kansas State University, Manhattan - $15,000 to establish a half-mile trail at Rock Springs in partnership with Rock Springs Center and the Kansas 4-H Foundation
• Kanza Rail-Trails Conservancy, Inc., Emporia - $15,000 to help build an 8.8 mile trail between Southeast Topeka and the Clinton Wildlife Area
• Strong City – Community Connection Trail Coalition, Strong City - $15,000 to connect trails between Cottonwood Falls, Strong City and the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
• USD 233/Fairview Elementary School, Olathe - $4,688 to build a quarter-mile path around a school playground area

Tobacco Control and Prevention
Grants under this program are funded in partnership with the American Legacy Foundation and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment

Planning Grants – focus on coalition building strategies and developing local resources

• Coffey County Health Department, Burlington - $5,000
• Meade County Health Department, Meade - $5,000
• Osage County Health Department, Lyndon - $5,000
• Pratt County Health Department, Pratt - $5,000
• Rawlins County Health Department, Atwood - $5,000

Capacity Grants – support for existing coalitions in tobacco prevention (two grant cycles included)

• Barber County Community Health Department, Medicine Lodge - $4,000 (cycle 2)

• Barton County Health Department, Great Bend - $10,000 (cycle 1)
  

• Barton County Health Department, Great Bend - $8,000 (cycle 2)
• Crawford County Health Department, Pittsburg - $5,000 (cycle 2)
• Edwards County Health Department, Kinsley - $7,000 (cycle 2)
• Flint Hills Community Health Center, Emporia - $2,250 (cycle 1)
• Greeley County Health Department, Tribune - $5,000 (cycle 2)
• Jefferson County Health Department, Oskaloosa - $5,000 (cycle 1)
  

• Jefferson County Health Department, Oskaloosa - $3,000 (cycle 2)
• Lane County Health Department, Dighton - $4,000 (cycle 2)
• Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department, Lawrence - $5,000 (cycle 1)
• Mitchell County Health Department, Beloit - $6,000 (cycle 2)
• Nemaha County Community Health Services, Sabetha - $2,000 (cycle 2)
• Norton County Health Department, Norton - $10,000 (cycle 2)
• Ottawa County Health Planning Commission, Inc., Minneapolis - $5,000 (cycle 2)
• Rooks County Health Department, Stockton - $7,000 (cycle 2)

Enhancement Grants – support of advanced coalition activities in tobacco prevention (two grant cycles included)

• Butler County Health Department, El Dorado - $12,000 (cycle 2)
• City-Cowley County Health Department, Winfield - $5,000 (cycle 1)
  
  City-Cowley County Health Department, Winfield - $7,000 (cycle 2)
• Cloud County Health Department, Concordia - $20,000 (cycle 1)
  
  Cloud County Health Department, Concordia - $24,000 (cycle 2)
• Dickinson County Health Department, Abilene - $5,000 (cycle 1)
• Dickinson County Health Department, Abilene - $5,000 (cycle 2)
• Finney County Health Department, Garden City - $5,000 (cycle 1)
• Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department, Lawrence - $12,500 (cycle 2)
• Lyon County Health Department, Emporia - $8,250 (cycle 2)
• Kansas State Research and Extension, Pottawatomie County, Westmoreland - $6,500 (cycle 1)
• Kansas State Research and Extension, Pottawatomie County, Westmoreland - $7,000 (cycle 2)
• Reno County Health Department, Hutchinson - $5,000 (cycle 1)
• Reno County Health Department, Hutchinson - $10,000 (cycle 2)
• Riley County-Manhattan Health Department, Manhattan - $10,000 (cycle 1)
• Riley County-Manhattan Health Department, Manhattan - $1,500 (cycle 2)
• Sedgwick County Health Department, Wichita - $11,000 (cycle 1)
• Sedgwick County Health Department, Wichita - $18,000 (cycle 2)
• Smoky Hill Foundation for Chemical Dependency, Inc., Hays - $8,000 (cycle 1)
• Smoky Hill Foundation for Chemical Dependency, Inc., Hays - $13,000 (cycle 2)

Youth Grants

• Tobacco Free Kansas Coalition, Topeka - $56,480 – for a statewide initiative to award grants to local youth organizations affiliated with the tobacco program

Evaluation

• Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Topeka - $90,000 for a statewide evaluation of the Tobacco Utilization and Prevention Program (TUPP)

• Douglas County AIDS Project, Lawrence - $3,444 for an HIV prevention and support program
• Kansas Association for the Medically Underserved, Topeka - $105,000 to support the development of the Kansas Health Consumer Coalition (three-year grant)
• Kansas Association of Counties, Topeka - $2,500 to support seven regional prescription drug work group forums
• Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Topeka - $5,000 to support the first Kansas Minority Health Conference
• Kansas Insurance Department, Topeka - $5,000 to support the Kansas Insurance Institute 2005 Anti-Fraud Conference
• Meadowlark Hills Retirement Community, Manhattan - $182,842 for the development of the workforce and quality improvement components of a resident-directed care training program for long term care facilities
• Positive Directions, Inc., Wichita - $4,500 for an African-American HIV prevention program
• Prairie View, Inc., Newton - $50,000 to help leverage a challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation for construction of a new facility
• Regional AIDS Project, Manhattan - $2,500 to support a Women Helping and Empowering Women HIV/AIDS education and prevention program
• Shawnee Mission Unitarian Universalist Church, Overland Park - $1,775 to develop an Internet-based HIV prevention program
• USD 214 Grant County School District, Ulysses - $1,354 for an HIV/AIDS prevention program
• Wichita State University, Wichita - $50,000 to expand the dental hygiene clinic to increase training capacity