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

 
Bridge Grants

• Good Samaritan Health Ministries, Wichita - $105,860 to expand services by adding a part-time developmental pediatrician and a full-time bilingual RN (three-year grant)
• Guadalupe Clinic, Inc., Wichita - $45,000 to expand services by increasing the hours of a part-time physician assistant, LPN and support staff (three-year grant)
• Kansas City Free Health Clinic, Kansas City - $42,932 to expand services by adding a charge nurse and a nurse practitioner (three-year grant)
• Mental Health Association of South Central Kansas, Wichita - $116,207 to expand services by increasing the hours of a part-time psychiatrist and adding a contract LSCSW, three full-time therapists and two ARNPs (two-year grant)
  
• Shawnee County Health Agency, Topeka - $43,384 to expand services by adding an ARNP
• The Guidance Center, Leavenworth - $100,000 to expand services by adding a full-time child and adolescent psychiatrist (two-year grant)
• Turner House Clinic, Inc., Kansas City - $92,500 to expand services by adding one full-time bilingual nurse practitioner/clinic manager (two-year grant)
   

General Grants

• Flint Hills Community Health Center, Emporia - $9,996 to evalute the organization's competency as a medical home through the use of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) survey tool
• Good Samaritan Project, Kansas City - $38,850 to help expand STD/HIV outreach services, in partnership with the Wyandotte County Health Department, by adding a part-time prevention specialist
• Kansas Association for the Medically Underserved, Topeka - $300,000 to help continue a public/private collaborative project to increase the capacity of the Kansas dental safety net by increasing access to care through a dental hub and spoke model (three-year grant)
• Kansas Health Institute, Topeka - $86,378 to help support a comprehensive study of underinsurance in Kansas (two-year grant) 
• Oral Health Kansas, Topeka - $83,601 to help continue the Dental Champions Leadership Program (two-year grant)
• United Methodist Western Kansas Mexican-American Ministries, Inc., Garden City - $44,700 to contract pharmacist services and implement best practice pharmacy methods
• University of Kansas Medical Center, Department of Family Medicine, Kansas City - $120,000 to support Sunflower Foundation Rural Primary Care Scholars, a summer program that places medical students with rural family practitioners for a clinical internship (three-year grant)
  
  
   

Assessment and Organizational Development Grants

• American Lung Association of the Central States, Wichita office - $16,273 for computer hardware and software
• American Stroke Foundation, Mission - $16,026 for computer hardware, software, projector, technology consultation and training
• Association for Community Reform Now (ACORN), Topeka - $17,500 for leadership development
• Association for Infant Mental Health, Topeka - $5,900 for leadership assessment, governance development and planning
• Attica Hospital District #1, Attica - $16,060 for computer hardware
• Catholic Charities of Salina, Inc., Salina - $9,714 for telephone system upgrades in two clinic facilities
• Center for Health and Wellness, Inc., Wichita - $10,000 for grantwriting technical assistance to support a federal grant application
• Center for Practical Bioethics, Kansas City - $12,500 for an organizational capacity assessment of computers, networks, phone system, Web services, fundraising database and accounting systems
• Central Kansas Mental Health Center, Salina - $20,000 for computer hardware and software upgrades
• COMCARE of Sedgwick County, Wichita - $19,800 for laptop computers for Field Case Managers
• Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas, Pittsburg - $20,000 for integrated practice management and patient record system training
• Community HealthCare System, Inc., Onaga - $20,000 for transcription technology, including hardware and software
• Douglas County AIDS Project, Lawrence - $9,954 for computer hardware, software, Web and technology consultation and training
• East Central Kansas Area Agency on Aging, Ottawa - $3,915 for an assessment of technology capacity
• Elizabeth Layton Center, Inc., Ottawa - $15,300 for computer hardware and software
• Four County Mental Health Center, Inc., Independence- $17,112 for technology upgrades at two satellite offices
• Four Tribes Women’s Wellness Coalition, Horton - $12,150 for board development and Web site development
• Gerard House, Inc., Wichita - $6,882 for computer hardware, networking technology and training
• Good Samaritan Society – Olathe, Olathe - $8,373 for presentation and training technology, including computers, software, video projectors and monitors
• Hamilton County Hospital, Syracuse - $20,000 for a new telephone system
• Harper Hospital District #5, Harper - $20,000 for transcription hardware and software
• Health Ministries Clinic, Newton - $20,000 for computer hardware, software and network expansion
• HopeNet, Inc., Wichita - $9,437 for Web site development consultation, computer hardware, software and video projector
• Hutchinson Community College – The Volunteer Center, Hutchinson - $5,364 for marketing consultation
• Independence, Inc., Lawrence - $20,000 for computer hardware, software and server
• Inter-Faith Ministries, Wichita - $16,364 for fundraising training for staff and board members
• Kansas Advocates for Better Care, Inc., Lawrence - $11,228 for strategic planning and leadership development
• Kansas Association for the Medically Underserved, Topeka - $9,930 for consultation to evaluate the progress and assess the sustainability of Project RevUp system changes in two safety net clinics
• Kansas Big Brothers Big Sisters, Inc., Wichita - $20,000 for technical consultation to develop a Fundraising Management Database
• Kansas Children’s Service League, Topeka - $20,000 for technology to add videoconferencing capabilities in Emporia, Hays, Manhattan and Pittsburg offices
• Kansas State University / Community Health Institute, Manhattan - $92,902 to conduct and disseminate findings from a Hispanic Health Needs Assessment in Dodge City, Garden City and Liberal (two-year grant)
• KANZA Mental Health and Guidance Center, Inc., Hiawatha - $20,000 for computer hardware, software, printer and video projector
• Mankato Endowment Association, Mankato - $3,927 for a new telephone and paging system for Jewell County Rural Health Clinic
• Marian Clinic, Topeka - $18,075 for an economic impact study and marketing, fundraising and software consultation
• Mercy and Truth Medical Missions, Kansas City - $13,583 for telephone system upgrades in two clinic sites
• Montgomery County Community Clinic, Independence - $11,000 for computer hardware and patient management software
• Morris County Hospital, Council Grove - $10,165 for comuter hardware to enhance training and education
• Ness County Hospital District #2, Ness City - $15,615 for dictation system technology
• Sedgwick County Department on Aging – Central Plains Area Agency on Aging, Wichita - $20,000 for centralized data collection and storage software
• Southeast Kansas Area Agency on Aging, Chanute - $18,137 for computer hardware, software and printers
• Southeast Kansas Respite Services, Inc., Parsons - $2,534 for computer hardware and software
• Stafford County Hospital, Stafford - $20,000 for computers and server
• The ALS Association – Keith Worthington Chapter, Mission - $16,119 for technology upgrades at the Wichita office, including hardware, software, printer and projector
• The Capper Foundation, Topeka - $5,550 to assess the organization’s program capacity and evaluate program options
• Tiyospaye, Inc., Wichita - $11,174 for high-speed copiers
• TLC for Children and Families, Inc., Olathe - $8,100 for middle management leadership training
• Topeka AIDS Project, Topeka - $11,000 for board development and to assess and strengthen fundraising efforts
• Tri-Valley Developmental Services, Inc., Chanute - $16,110 for computer hardware, software, projector, scanner and printer
• YMCA of Topeka, Topeka - $20,000 for computer and server upgrades

General Grants

• Kansas Health Institute, Topeka - $32,500 to support the institute’s participation in a project to build the capacity of the National Collaborative of State Health Policy Centers (three-year grant)
• Wichita State University – Self Help Network: Center for Community Support and Research, Wichita - $10,000 in matching funds to help leverage an Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Compassion Capital grant to continue the Compassion Kansas program to build the capacity of grassroots organizations

Special Events

• Sunflower Foundation Grantee Workshop, October 4, 2007 – Finding  Your Voice: Strengthening Nonprofit Advocacy
   

School, Community and Worksite Grants

• Action for Healthy Kids, Inc., Skokie, IL - $25,000 for a Kansas-based project that will conduct a survey of youth leaders about school wellness, provide mini-grants to high school students to implement student-led school wellness programs and help support a Youth Health Summit (two-year grant)
• Johnson County Community College, Overland Park - $21,218 to help initiate the Edible School Yard Garden at the Hiersteiner Child Development Center (two-year grant)
• Kansas Families and Schools Together, Inc., Topeka - $25,000 to fund 32 mini-grants to schools to host Family Fun, Food and Fitness Nights, to collaborate with Kansas State Department of Education Team Nutrition on parent education modules for Family Fun and to evaluate the program (two-year grant)
• Kansas State Department of Education, Topeka - $24,000 to expand Power Panther Professionals, a 12-week staff wellness program for school and child care personnel, by providing mini-grants to 60 participating school sites (two-year grant)
• Kansas State Department of Education, Topeka - $46,282 to help support the replication of the Eat, Exercise, Excel (EEE) program in two Kansas schools: Woodland Health & Wellness Magnet Elementary (USD #259/Wichita) and Eugene Ware Elementary (USD #234/Fort Scott) (two-year grant)
• Kansas State University – Community Health Institute, Manhattan - $77,501 to develop, deliver and assess an interactive Girl Scout curriculum designed to increase the quantity and quality of family meals at home to improve obesity-prevention behaviors in ten Manhattan-area troops, followed by dissemination to troops across the Kaw Valley Council’s 22 Kansas counties (two-year grant)
• Kansas State University – Counseling Services, Manhattan - $22,862 to support a partnership with Manhattan High School (USD #383) to implement a school-based peer mentoring program for healthy behaviors related to physical activity, diet and stress management (21-month grant)
• USD #349/Stafford, Stafford - $12,932 to support an after-school program involving students, staff, families and community members to promote good nutrition
• USD #399/Paradise, Natoma and Waldo, Natoma - $14,497 to support family health nights to educate students, families and community members on strategies to address childhood obesity

Tobacco Control and Prevention Grants

• University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute, Inc., Kansas City - $106,528 to conduct an attitudinal survey of elected municipal officials in 57 Kansas communities regarding non-smoking ordinance for workplaces and public places; analyze the status of existing smoking ordinances in these communities; conduct an educational summit for state and local policymakers to disseminate the survey findings; develop a “Clean Air Kansas” Web site as an information clearinghouse; and develop a technical support team to work with Kansas community coalitions interested in clean indoor air ordinances

Walking Trails Grants

• City of Colwich, Colwich - $14,190 to build a 1,390' long, 6' wide concrete walking path connecting the main part of the city with the new KDOT trail
• City of Grinnell, Grinnell - $11,914 to build two 5’ wide concrete walking trails, one 2,535’ long trail around the city park and one 1,425’ long trail through the city park
• City of Hesston, Hesston - $14,900 to build a 1,600’ long, 6’ wide concrete walking trail along Hickory Street, connecting with the Hesston College trail
• City of Hoisington, Hoisington - $20,000 to build a 2,300' long, 5' wide concrete walking path from Main and 9th Streets to the Hoisington Activity Center (includes path lighting)
• City of Kingman, Kingman - $15,405 to build a 6,035' long, 5' wide concrete walking path around the west end of the island park (includes trail signage) 
• City of Newton, Newton - $15,000 to build a 1,580' long, 10' wide concrete walking trail along South Kansas Avenue, connecting 24th Street to the Quail Creek Addition
• City of Parsons, Parsons - $15,000 to build a 7/16 mile long, 10' wide natural walking trail linking Tolen Creek Park to 10th Street
• Elk County Community and Education Foundation, Howard - $3,000 to build a ¼ mile long, 4’ wide concrete walking trail loop around Jackson Park
• Hope Unlimited, Inc., Iola - $8,724 to build a 2,575’ long, 6’ wide concrete walking path from Cofachique Park to Riverside Park, connecting with the Prairie Spirit Trail
• Melvern PRIDE, Melvern - $9,250 to build a 4,400’ long, 6’ wide rock walking trail along the Marais des Cygnes River
• Twin City Lions Club, Cottonwood Falls - $11,700 to build a ¼ mile long, 10’ wide compacted limestone walking trail around Swope Park
• University of Kansas Field Station and Ecological Reserve, Lawrence - $17,558 to build a 2,689' long, 6' wide concrete walking/nature trail connecting two natural trails and providing access to featured locations at the site (includes trail signage)
• USD #233/Olathe, Olathe - $3,750 to build a 650’ long, 6’ wide asphalt walking trail on the Meadow Lane Elementary School playground
• USD #305/Salina Public Schools, Salina - $15,000 to build a 1,477’ long, 5’ wide concrete walking trail on the Stewart Elementary School campus
• USD #358/Oxford, Oxford - $15,000 to build a one-mile long, 8’ wide cedar mulch walking trail near the Old Oxford Mill
• USD #441/Sabetha, Sabetha - $6,190 to build a one-mile long, 5½’ wide limestone walking trail to connect all three Sabetha schools
• Valley Falls Recreation Commission, Valley Falls - $5,983 to build a 4,900' long, 10' wide crushed limestone walking trail on an abandoned rail bed at the east edge of Valley Falls
• Wilson County Hospital, Neodesha - $15,000 to build a .43 mile long, 8’ wide asphalt walking trail round the hospital campus

General Grants

• University of Kansas, Lawrence - $4,500 to support the appearance of four presenters (Terry O’Toole, PhD; Mark A. Thompson, PhD; Donna J. Mehrle, MPH, RD, LD; and Rosemary Moyer, RN, CRNP, CS, MSN) at the University of Kansas 9th Annual Conference on the Prevention and Treatment of Overweight and Obese Individuals
• Wichita State University – Elliott School of Communication, Wichita - $20,000 to help support a project to analyze Kansas teen driver crash data, survey Kansas parents and teens regarding teen driving and opinions on a graduated driver licensing (GDL) system for Kansas drivers and disseminate findings to inform discussions regarding teen driver licensing
  
  
   

Responsive Grants

• Kansas Hospital Education and Research Foundation, Topeka - $290,000 to help support an initiative of the Kansas Health Care Collaborative, co-founded by the Kansas Hospital Association and the Kansas Medical Society, to improve quality, enhance patient safety and facilitate public reporting (two-year grant)
• Kansas University Endowment Association, Lawrence - $300,000 to help support a pilot project between the KU School of Law and Southwest Boulevard Family Health Care Clinic, Kansas City, that integrates legal and medical services in a safety net setting (three-year grant)