Our Mission
To Serve as a Catalyst for Improving the Health of All Kansans
Our Work
Investing in Communities
Healthy
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Systems
Nonprofit
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Learning Events
Collaborative learning is critical to supporting the mission of Sunflower Foundation. Through the Sunflower Nonprofit Center and its state-of-the-art meeting space, the foundation provides an environment conducive for organizations to connect and grow as they work to address the state’s most pressing health challenges.
The foundation is proud to highlight organizations that choose the Nonprofit Center as a hub for convening and developing forward-thinking solutions that contribute to a healthier future for the state.
Those solutions start here, at the Sunflower Nonprofit Center.
Solutions Start Here: Boys & Girls Clubs
We sat down and visited with Brianna Brooks, vice president of management and quality assurance for Topeka Boys & Girls Clubs, which recently held a two-day learning event at the Sunflower Nonprofit Center that was focused on the 2Gen youth development approach.
Watch our interview with Brianna below!
Our Impact
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Organizations collectively awarded nearly $1.5M in 2024 through Sunflower Foundation's capacity building grant program
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Events held by nonprofits and other organizations in FY 2025 (July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025) at the Sunflower Nonprofit Center
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Unique trail projects in Kansas that have been funded at a total investment of $5.5M through the Sunflower Trails program
News & Stories
Sunflower Learning Collaborative highlights importance of nonprofit capacity building
Kansas Health Institute caught up with Sunflower Foundation President & CEO Brandon Skidmore and Health Systems Director Carlie Houchen last week during the foundation’s Spring 2025 Nonprofit Capacity Building Learning Collaborative.
Brandon and Carlie talked about the role the nonprofit sector plays in helping improve the health of Kansans, as well as the importance of helping nonprofits build their capacity so they can make an even bigger impact in their communities.
Watch the video below!
Latest News
Kansas Trails, Inc., ready to be a champion for state’s trail community
Alyssa Nava has been named Kansas Fights Addiction assistant director, and Sunflower welcomes DJ Gering as its new grants and data analyst.
Nava named KFA assistant director; Gering joins staff as grants & data analyst
Alyssa Nava has been named Kansas Fights Addiction assistant director, and Sunflower welcomes DJ Gering as its new grants and data analyst.
Seiler, Simmons join Sunflower Foundation Board of Trustees
Lea Ann Seiler of Hanston and Stephanie Simmons of Beloit have joined the nine-member Sunflower Board of Trustees.
Sunflower Foundation board welcomes new trustees, elects officers
The Sunflower Board of Trustees welcomed its newest members and elected a new slate of officers at its meeting June 12.
