Unless otherwise noted, grants are for one year.

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

ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE

• Center for Health and Wellness, Inc., Wichita - $136,222 to expand services by adding a family practice physician, an ARNP and an LPN
• Central Kansas Mental Health Center, Salina - $39,795 to support a collaborative project with Catholic Charities of Salina to provide mental health services to residents in and around Chapman, KS, in response to the June 11, 2008, tornado
• Community Health Council of Wyandotte County, Kansas City - $8,000 to support a process to evaluate and make recommendations on options to enhance and/or establish a Federally Qualified Health Center in Wyandotte County
• Greeley County Health Services, Tribune - $185,000 to support the development of a comprehensive rural primary care program in Hamilton, Greeley and Wallace Counties, including an outreach and education program and leadership development  (two-year grant)

ADVOCACY

• Kansas Association for the Medically Underserved, Topeka - $90,000 to support part-time staff and consulting dedicated to legislative advocacy on behalf of safety net clinics statewide (three-year grant)
• Oral Health Kansas, Inc., Topeka - $5,000 to support two advocacy training sessions at the Oral Health Kansas Annual Conference, November 6-7, 2008
• Kansas Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, Topeka - $1,000 to support a Long Term Care Public Forum focusing on the future of long term care financing
• Kansas Department on Aging, Topeka - $10,000 to support two statewide conferences focusing on collaborative responses to meeting the needs of Kansas seniors

CAPACITY BUILDING

Assessment and Organizational Development Grants

• Abstinence Education, Inc., Wichita - $6,818 for organizational assessment and strategic planning
• Anthony Medical Center, Anthony - $20,000 for billing and coding software
• Arthritis Foundation, Kansas Chapter, Topeka - $5,102 for technology upgrades to improve communications, educational presentations and Web-based information and related training
• Breakthrough Club of Sedgwick County, Wichita - $5,223 for leadership development and transition planning
• Breakthrough House, Inc., Topeka - $20,000 for computer hardware and software to expand service delivery and strengthen financial management 
• Bridging the Gap, Kansas City - $10,000 for fund development assessment and training
• Central Kansas Foundation, Salina - $9,744 to enhance Web site capacity
• CLASS LTD, Columbus - $19,823 for computer hardware, including servers and desktop workstations
• Communities in Schools of Harvey County, Inc., Newton - $7,136 for a comprehensive organizational assessment
• East Central Kansas Area Agency on Aging, Ottawa - $17,957 for technology upgrades, including hardware, software, installation and training
• El Centro, Inc., Kansas City - $18,972 for fund development training for staff and board
• Elizabeth B. Ballard Center, Inc., Lawrence - $20,000 for technology upgrades, including hardware, software, installation and training
• Family Resource Center, Inc., Pittsburg - $19,974 for communication hardware, including telephones, intercoms and related wiring
• Florence Crittenton Services, Topeka - $9,000 for an organizational needs assessment and strategic planning
• Harper Hospital District #5, Harper - $18,084 for technology upgrades, including computers, printers and scanners
• Heartland Regional Alcohol and Drug Assessment Center, Roeland Park - $7,650 to assess the organization's technology needs related to data tracking and reporting
• Heartland Regional Alcohol and Drug Assessment Center, Roeland Park - $20,000 to acquire, implement and provide training for data tracking and reporting software, as identified in assessment
• Kansas Area Agencies on Aging Association, Topeka - $8,808 to assess new program capacity
• Kansas Big Brothers Big Sisters, Wichita - $19,366 for technology consultation, computer hardware (two servers) and related software to support employees working remotely statewide
• Kansas Health Ethics, Inc., Wichita - $9,500 for fund development assessment, training and planning
• Kansas Public Health Association, Topeka - $7,909 for governance and management development
• KU HealthPartners, Kansas City - $17,550 for technology upgrades at the Silver City Health Center, including telephone system equipment and data wiring
• Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department, Lawrence - $11,514 for program evaluation and quality improvement training
• Medical Service Bureau, Inc., Wichita - $13,878 for strategic planning
• Mercy & Truth Medical Missions, Kansas City - $12,240 for telephone system upgrades at the Pat Lloyd Land Wellness Center
• NAMI Kansas, Inc., Topeka - $17,000 to increase the communication and technology capacity of VISTA outreach staff
• Planned Parenthood of Kansas & Mid-Missouri, Overland Park - $11,926 for computer technology, including two servers and related software
• Shawnee County Health Agency, Topeka - $14,000 to assess the effectiveness of current health system in meeting the needs of local residents and to develop a plan to be more responsive to those needs
• Shawnee Regional Prevention and Recovery Services, Inc., Topeka - $7,454 for an organizational assessment
• Starkey, Inc., Wichita - $6,650 for emergency succession and executive transition planning
• The Arc of Douglas County, Lawrence - $9,309 to assess fiscal, management and evaluation capacity
• The Capper Foundation, Topeka - $16,988 for technology upgrades, including hardware, software and installation
• The Center for Counseling and Consultation, Great Bend - $16,818 for technology upgrades to support field work and community outreach
• United Methodist Homes, Inc., Topeka - $20,000 for payroll management and scheduling software at Aldersgate Village
• United Methodist Western Kansas Mexican-American Ministries, Inc., Garden City - $20,000 for computer hardware and training on patient records software
• Village Shalom, Overland Park - $9,450 for staff training in resident-directed care
• Wilson Medical Center, Neodesha - $20,000 for a comprehensive evaluation of services, including provider and patient surveys, consultation and staff training
• Wyandot Center for Community Behavioral Healthcare, Kansas City - $20,000 for consultation related to installing and implementing an interactive data management system

General Capacity Building Grants

• Center for Community Support and Research - Wichita State University, Wichita - $10,000 to help leverage an Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Compassion Capital grant to continue Compassion Kansas, a program to build the capacity of grassroots nonprofit organizations
• Kansas Association for the Medically Underserved, Topeka - $91,000 to support grantwriting technical assistance for Kansas clinics actively pursuing federal Community Health Center (330) grant funding (two-year grant)

ECONOMIC CRISIS RESPONSE - FINDING SOLUTIONS IN CHALLENGING TIMES

• American Cancer Society, Topeka - $30,000 for temporary support to meet the transportation needs of low-income patients requiring cancer treatment
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Finney & Kearny Counties, Garden City - $10,590 to support a summer school program for at risk youth that replaces a program cancelled due to the economy
• Community Health Ministry, Wamego - $10,000 to support a summer lunch, learning and exercise program for families in economic stress
• Douglas County AIDS Project, Lawrence - $27,000 to help support extended staff hours to meet increased demands for case management and prevention/testing services for low-income clients
• Heartland Medical Clinic, Lawrence - $49,380 to meet increased demands for services and for a volunteer recruitment and placement program
• Homecare & Hospice, Inc., Manhattan - $15,000 to serve increased numbers of low-inncome clients
• Kansas Big Brothers Big Sisters, Wichita - $63,884 to support part-time case managers in five Western Kansas BBBS agencies in response to increased requests for services
• Kansas Food Bank, Wichita - $41,250 to distribute food to the unemployed through a newly established Laid-Off Workers Center in Wichita
• KU HealthPartners, Kansas City - $50,000 to serve increased numbers of patients at the Silver City Health Center in the Argentine community of Kansas City, KS
• Let's Help, Inc., Topeka - $26,455 to expand hours to meet the increased demand for intake and emergency services and to add a job placement program
• Mental Health Association of South Central Kansas, Wichita - $41,772 to support for a program to connect volunteer mentors and friends to current adult clients and those on a waiting list
• National Kidney Foundation of Kansas & Western Missouri, Overland Park - $8,587 to help meet the increased demand for services to low-income dialysis patients in Kansas
• Society of St. Andrew, Kansas City - $30,000 to support increased emergency food assistance requests in 13 Northeast Kansas counties

HEALTHY BEHAVIORS AND PREVENTION

School, Community and Worksite Grants

• Wichita Educational Foundation, Wichita - $150,000 to help support the development of technologies to promote physical activity through user-friendly social media, a project of the Recreation Alliance of Visioneering Wichita, beginning initially with a regional focus and ultimately expanding to statewide 
   

Walking Trails Grants

• City of Bel Aire, Bel Aire - $24,996 to build a .55 mile long, 5' wide concrete trail in Central Park (includes trail lighting, distance signage and treescaping)
• City of Bonner Springs, Bonner Springs - $17,454 to build a .35 mile long, 6' wide asphalt trail from Pioneer St. to Kansas Ave. and connecting to an existing trail (includes trail distance signage and treescaping)
• City of Garden City, Garden City - $13,206 to build a 2,350' long, 8' wide asphalt trail in Finnup Park
• City of Humboldt, Humboldt - $17,142 to build a 1,390' long, 8' wide asphalt trail between the city pool and the baseball complex (includes trail lighting, distance signage and treescaping)
• City of Sharon Springs, Sharon Springs - $22,742 to build a 2,978' long, 8' wide concrete trail in the city park (includes trail lighting and treescaping)
• City of Ulysses, Ulysses - $25,000 to build a 2,300' long, 6' wide concrete trail and a 2,155' long, 10' wide asphalt trail in Frazier Park (includes trail lighting and treescaping)
• Kanza Rail-Trails Conservancy, Inc., Topeka - $15,000 to complete a 5 mile long, 8-10' wide section of the railbanked corridor trail between Osawatomie and Ottawa
• Marshall County Connections, Inc., Marysville - $14,686 to build a 2 mile long, 10' wide crushed limestone trail as part of the Kansas section of a Marysville, KS, to Beatrice, NE, trail
• Meade District Hospital, Meade - $20,288 to build a 2,583' long, 6' wide concrete trail around the Lone Tree Retirement Center (includes trail distance signage and treescaping)
• Overbrook PRIDE, Inc., Overbrook - $20,855 to complete a 1,380' long, 6' wide concrete section of the Overbrook City Trail (includes trail lighting, distance signage and treescaping)
• Prairie Travelers, Wichita - $15,000 to complete a 3 mile long section of the railbanked corridor trail between Wichita, Goddard and Garden Plain
• USD #253/Emporia, Emporia - $6,587 to build a 1,300' long, 10' wide compacted limestone trail in the Outdoor Wildlife and Learning Site (OWLS) (includes trail lighting and treescaping)
• USD #259/Wichita, Wichita - $20,000 to build a 1/4 mile long, 5' wide concrete trail on the school grounds (includes trail distance signage)
• Wamego Community Foundation, Wamego - $15,000 to build a 1.5 mile long, 8-10' wide concrete trail along Military Trail Road in St. George

MEDICAL-LEGAL PARTNERSHIPS

• Kansas Legal Services, Inc., Topeka - $300,000 to support a Medical-Legal Partnership with Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas, Pittsburg, integrating legal and medical teams as a strategy to improve both health and quality of life (three-year grant)
• University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence - $229,125 to establish an annual Medical-Legal Partnership Post-Graduate Fellowship for a recent law school graduate to work with existing and developing medical-legal partnerships in safety net clinics throughout Kansas (three-year grant)

SPECIAL INITIATIVES

• Advocacy Fellowship - A custom-designed program to help leaders in nonprofit health and human services organizations improve their advocacy skills
• Clean Air Kansas - A grassroots campaign to mobilize support to promote passage of a statewide clean indoor air law in Kansas
• Grantwriting Workshops - A series of grantee workshops to provide grantwriting technical assistance
• Mental Health Advocacy - A project to build the public policy capacity and impact of mental health-focused nonprofits in Kansas