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Cross-Lines Community Outreach, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) providing "people in the Kansas City area affected by poverty with services and opportunities that encourage self-confidence, meet the needs of today, and provide tools for future self-sufficiency."
Community United KC or New Community United of Kansas City Missouri is a charitable organization founded in 1997, in conjunction with a friendly basketball game between reported "drug dealers" and staff of Jackson County, Missouri Prosecutor's office, and today provides housing, mentoring, and various other social outreach programs and activities.
KC Tenants was founded with an annual budget of $30,000, which has grown to almost $600,000 in June 2023. [1] The union has worked together with Mayor Quinton Lucas on housing policy, [3] notably passing a tenant's bill of rights in 2019 that included banning "discrimination against prospective tenants solely because of a prior arrest, conviction or eviction."
The CommunityAmerica Foundation was created to make a difference with a variety of local nonprofit organizations in Kansas City. Grants and sponsorships funded by the Foundation and Credit Union focus in four key target areas: financial literacy & stability , education & reading literacy, health & wellness, and strengthening communities.
Unbound, formerly Christian Foundation for Children and Aging, is a nonprofit international development organization headquartered in Kansas City, Kansas. Unbound was founded by lay Catholics acting on the Gospel call to serve the poor. Its sponsorship program provides direct cash transfers to sponsored members who determine how to use their ...
Kansas City Art Institute, Warwick Boulevard, Southmoreland Warwick Boulevard, Southmoreland. Southmoreland is a neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri.It hosts the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Kansas City Art Institute.
The Country Club District of Kansas City. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-1-62585-448-3. Morton, LaDene. The Brookside Story: Shops of Every Necessary Character. United States, History Press, 2019. Stauch, Jose (May 10, 2021). Country Club District Of Kansas City: History And Significant Stories: Kansas City History Facts. Independently Published.
The "Kansas City jazz" era ended in 1939, when political reformers gained control of the city and closed many of its clubs and musical establishments. The Mutual Musicians' Foundation, established in 1929 as the Negro Musicians Association, sponsored jam sessions and events here through the 1950s and 1960s, [3] a practice that continues today.