2008-2009 Endowment Fund Grants
Community Agency | Amount Granted | Purpose |
| Angel Flight Central (Medical and charity air transportation for reasons of compassion or community service) | $3,500.00 | Completion of air conditioning project |
| Migrant Farmworkers Project (Assist workers with translation and with application for benefits programs and serve as advocates for the workers' rights to assistance) | $1,120.00 | |
| American Stroke Foundation (To empower stroke survivors and their families to overcome ongoing challenges of life after stroke and rejuvenate their lives) | $2,710.00 | Purchase of treadmill |
| Children's Mercy Hospital (Kansas City regions' exclusive pediatric medical center and health care network) | $1,660.00 | Stadiometers and scales for pilot project with Johnson County Parks & Rec |
| Rose Brooks Center (Comprehensive domestic violence agency that provides a full continuum of care including prevention programming, crisis intervention and other supportive services to thousands of women and children each year) | $1,505.28 | Replacement of high chairs for infants in the center |
| KC Symphony | $3,356.00 | 2 portable AEDs (automated external defibrillator) - portable electronic devices to diagnose potentially life threatening cardiac arrhythmias and reestablish an effective rhythm |
| Hope House (Safety net of prevention, education and support for more than 10,000 victims of abuse every year) | $5,000.00 | Court costs |
| Northland Early Education Center (provides quality education and therapy services to children with special needs and those who are typically developing) | $5,000.00 | Furnaces |
| House of Menuha (Provides a gift of solitude for the woman who chooses to give herself the gift of time) | $1,151.00 | Printer |
| Child Protection Center, Inc. (Nationally accredited child advocacy center founded in 1996 to assist children who are victims of abuse in Jackson, Cass and Lafayette Counties in Missouri) | $5,000.00 | New space for business |
| The Foundation for Shawnee Mission Medical Center (supporting the hospital in its quest to provide exceptional quality health care for the community) | $2,500.00 | Provide training to 35 staff members |
| Guadalupe Centers, Inc. ( improve the quality of life for individuals in the Latino communities of greater Kansas City) | $5,000.00 | Subsidize the parent shared cost of tuition (P) for Plaza de Ninos Preschool for 20 families for 5 weeks |
| reStart, Inc. (Interfaith ministry with homeless persons, committed to providing shelter and supportive services to homeless men, women, youth and families with the goal of helping persons move toward independence and self-sufficiency) | $3,620.00 | New or used washer/dryer units |
| Women's Employment Network (Dedicated to providing women with the skills and confidence to achieve economic independence for themselves and their families) | $ 876.00 | Funding for parking |
