ACCESS TO CARE
Supporting safety net systems in better meeting the complex social needs of their communities through identifying social determinants of health, strengthening referral networks, and integrating those processes into practice. 

Cheyenne County Hospital
$30,000
St. Francis – Cheyenne
Funding to support local and regional work to impact poverty and address economic stability, trauma, and healthy food access.

Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas
$30,000
Pittsburg – Crawford
Funding to support a Community Health Action Team to provide targeted care in high need neighborhoods.

Delivering Change: Healthy Families – Healthy Communities
$30,000
Junction City - Riley
Funding to expand the wraparound supports provided to local families with a specific focus on families of childbearing age.

GraceMed Health Clinic, Inc.
$30,000
Wichita – Sedgwick
Funding to integrate a social determinants of health screening tool into the clinic’s electronic health record system and to develop a partner network to better connect patients with services and supports to address critical needs.

Healthcore Clinic, Inc.
$30,000
Wichita – Sedgwick
Funding to integrate a social determinants of health screening tool into the clinic’s electronic health record system.

Konza Prairie Community Health & Dental Center
$30,000
Junction City – Riley
Funding to integrate a social determinants of health screening tool into the clinic’s electronic health record system and to improve the school-based health center’s capacity to identify and respond to the social barriers impacting students.

Medical Service Bureau, Inc.
$30,000
Wichita – Sedgwick
Funding to formally integrate a social determinants of health screening tool into the organization’s operations and to build a more responsive referral network across a diverse range of social determinants factors.

Nurses Global Outreach
$20,000
Wichita – Sedgwick
Funding to provide case management and care coordination for high risk/high need populations.

South Central Kansas Medical Center
$30,000
Arkansas City – Cowley
Funding to streamline local systems to better support and treat individuals with substance abuse problems and mental health issues.

Topeka Doula Project, Inc.
$24,700
Topeka – Shawnee
Funding to provide doula support for teen mothers, incarcerated and reintegrating mothers, and low-income mothers and their families.

The Topeka Housing Authority, Inc.
$30,000
Topeka – Shawnee
Funding to support primary care and related outreach within an urban public housing community.

AFFORDABLE QUALITY HOUSING
Promoting advocacy and innovative housing strategies to create and preserve access to safe, affordable housing. 

Family Promise of Lawrence
$20,000
Lawrence – Douglas
Funding to expand services and supports for families who are homeless and need short term and long term housing assistance.

Kansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, Inc.
$30,000
Lawrence – Douglas
Funding to support a statewide healthy housing advocacy movement-connecting local community housing-related efforts to a statewide coalition structure designed to develop and advance systemic solutions.

Live Well Live Atchison
$20,000
Atchison – Atchison
Funding to build a robust local network of partners to address access and availability of safe and affordable housing.

COMMUNITY SAFETY
Advancing prevention and educational activities that impact community safety through enhanced training and outreach.

ICT SOS
$15,000
Wichita – Sedgwick/Central Kansas
Funding for programming and prevention education to impact human trafficking.

Kansas Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence
$30,000
Statewide
Funding to support a targeted needs assessment and outreach to communities impacted by sexual and domestic violence marginalized because of race or ethnicity.

ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
Supporting efforts to increase economic opportunities through a health equity lens with community planning, job skills training, and economic growth.

Dress for Success Wichita Inc.
$30,000
Wichita – Sedgwick
Funding to support weekend hours of operation and technology enhancements to better support client referrals and intake.

Inclusion Connections
$12,000
Olathe – Johnson
Funding for job coaching, entrepreneurship programming, and transportation assistance for young adults with developmental disabilities.

Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department
$30,000
Lawrence – Douglas
Funding to build an understanding of health equity, diversity, and inclusion to better support the implementation of the community health improvement plan.

Rosewood Roots & Wings Foundation
$30,000
Great Bend – Barton
Funding to provide soft skills and critical job training for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Topeka JUMP
$30,000
Topeka – Shawnee/Statewide
Funding to provide technical guidance to a robust, statewide network of advocates working to address predatory lending.

EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY
Support for achieving health equity in school systems and increasing educational opportunities for early childhood and adult learning. 

Community Health Ministries
$30,000
Wamego – Pottawatomie
Funding to implement a peer support program, connecting community members impacted by social determinants to mentors, education opportunities, and other community-based assistance.

Franklin County Health Department
$26,500
Ottawa – Franklin
Funding to expand capacity to work in rural areas of the county, developing local action groups to support the implementation of the county’s health improvement plan and other pertinent local health priorities.

Jana’s Campaign
$30,000
Hays – Ellis/Statewide
Funding to expand programming to schools and districts to identify and understand the warning signs associated with unhealthy relationship behaviors to stop violence before it starts.

Kansas City Medical Society Foundation
$30,000
Lenexa – Johnson and Wyandotte
Funding to develop the infrastructure in Wyandotte County to recruit and retain a multilingual, multicultural health care workforce.

Kansas Parents as Teacher Association
$30,000
Statewide
Funding to advocate for early childhood funding, programs, and supports and related issues that directly impact the health and wellbeing of children and families.

Made Men, Inc.
$30,000
Kansas City – Wyandotte
Funding to support screening for a broad array of client’s social needs, including work to develop a more robust and responsive network of community partners to begin collectively addressing the challenges identified.

Riley County Health Department
$30,000
Manhattan – Riley
Funding to implement a broad range of school health policies throughout USD 383.

ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Supporting changes in policy and practice to improve environmental quality.

Climate + Energy Project
$30,000
Hutchinson – Reno
Funding to engage state and local public health officials to identify the connections between local public health and changing environmental conditions and to implement solutions to build community resilience

FOOD ACCESS
Advancing policy, cultivating awareness, and ensuring the sustainability of healthy foods in communities. 

Kansas City Community Gardens
$30,000
Kansas City – Johnson and Wyandotte
Funding to expand self-help gardening, schoolyard gardens, community gardens, and the Giving Grove.

Lawrence Community Food Alliance; Sunrise Project
$30,000
Lawrence – Douglas
Funding to bring together marginalized neighborhoods with city and county leaders and to assist peoples of diverse backgrounds to build the skills and comfort to engage local government officials.

COMMUNITY DESIGN
Support for building community elements that promote health through cross-sector and regional partnerships, assessment, and health improvement plans inclusive of upstream social determinants of health. 

Johnson County Department of Health & Environment
$25,000
Olathe – Johnson
Funding to track progress on community health improvement efforts and to engage stakeholders in systems change for improved population health.

PARKS AND RECREATION
Encouraging the activities of healthy living through engagement in green spaces in the community. 

Child Start, Inc.
$12,000
Wichita – Sedgwick
Funding to engage low-income families and children participating in Head Start to more regularly use parks and green space in their vicinity.

Special Olympics Kansas
$28,000
Statewide
Funding to connect athletes to new skills and venues to be more physically active in their own neighborhoods

SOCIAL/CULTURAL COHESION
Supporting communities to build civic engagement, increase social inclusion, and strengthen the network of resilience. 

Kansas Sampler Foundation
$30,000
Statewide
Funding to engage the foundation’s vast network of rural-based members to develop an advocacy agenda to impact select social determinants issues.

NAMI Wichita
$25,000
Wichita – Sedgwick
Funding to support volunteer recruitment, programming, and enhanced outreach to reduce the stigma of mental illness and dollars to update curriculum and expand partnerships with organizations that support at-risk populations.

Rosedale Developmental Association
$30,000
Kansas City – Wyandotte
Funding to support the Advancing Rosedale Community Health (ARCH) project.

SOCIAL JUSTICE
Addressing social and institutional inequities, shaping a person’s ability to achieve good health, and practice healthy habits.

Community Health Council of Wyandotte County
$30,000
Kansas City – Wyandotte
Funding to develop a hub for community conversations and partnership building to better support civic engagement and health-focused policy and systems changes.

Historic Northeast Midtown Association, Inc.
$30,000
Kansas City – Wyandotte
Funding to implement the Northeast Area Master Plan with a focus on healthy food access, affordable housing, brownfields, parks and neighborhood improvements, and local history preservation and storytelling.

CROSS SECTOR PARTNERSHIPS
Supporting the integral connections needed to effectively address the social determinates of health and create sustainable cross-systems changes. 

Heart to Heart Child Advocacy Center
$30,000
Newton – Harvey
Funding to expand partnerships and to enhance systems to prevent child abuse and to ensure more child abuse victims are identified and provided with the services and supports needed for short- and long-term health and safety.

NAMI Kansas, Inc.
$30,000
Statewide
Funding to assist NAMI affiliates in building more robust partner networks with local service providers and advocates and to develop a database to track outcomes and measure the impact of local work.

Reno County Health Department
$30,000
Hutchinson – Reno
Funding to develop a local data repository to augment local programming and policy development.

POLICY AND SYSTEMS CHANGE
Supporting policy and systems change to make healthy choices practical and available to all community members. 

Episcopal Social Services, Inc.
$30,000
Wichita – Sedgwick
Funding to convene the local mental health system, sheriff’s department, corrections, and other key stakeholders to assess and develop a plan to address incarceration and mental illness.

Humanity House Foundation
$30,000
Iola – Allen
Funding to support local advocacy for policy and systems changes related to utility shutoffs, reconnects and fines, code enforcement, evictions, and disability benefits.

Kansas Advocates for Better Care, Inc.
$30,000
Lawrence – Douglas
Funding to support a robust partner network to advocate for sound policies, programs, and home-based supports to address and care for those living with dementia.

Thrive Allen County, Inc.
$30,000
Iola – Allen
Funding to assist and mentor other rural communities working to address the social determinants of health through right-sized and community-appropriate strategies.

ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE 
Supporting access to health care by building or enhancing organizational and operational capacity and sustainability. 

Central Kansas Mental Health Center
$25,000
Salina – Saline
Funding to support a contract with the National Council for Behavioral Health to bring the Middle Management Academy training to Kansas.

Community Care Network of Kansas
$46,564
Statewide
Funding to support a process to increase federal Medicaid matching funds allocated to Kansas.

Health Ministries Clinic
$200,000
Newton – Harvey
Funding to support the development of on-site pharmacy services to maximize 340B benefits available for patients. Funds will provide transitional financial support for the salary and benefits of pharmacy staff.

Kansas Department of Health & Environment Office of Local Rural Health Statewide Farmworker Health Program
$48,000
Statewide
Funding to support technology enhancements for the Kansas Statewide Farmworker Health Program (KSFHP) to maximize existing resources and better serve clients.

Made Men, Inc.
$5,000
Kansas City – Wyandotte
Funding to convene Kansas faith leaders to better understand the health and health care-related challenges parishioners and community members face.

Ness County Hospital
$45,000
Ness City – Ness
Funding to ensure Ness County retains a primary care provider, allowing continued access to quality, reliable health care for all county residents.

ADVOCACY AND POLICY
Supporting public policies aimed at improving the health of Kansans and supporting or developing efforts of nonprofit organizations to advocate for such policies on behalf of the populations they serve. 

Community Care Network of Kansas
$115,000
Statewide
Funding to support the Alliance for a Healthy Kansas, a multi-sector coalition coming together to educate the public, policymakers, and key stakeholders in communities statewide about health policy.

Community Care Network of Kansas
$6,000
Statewide
Funding to support the 2018 CCN Annual Conference.

BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Promoting and supporting efforts to improve the physical environment of where we live, work, and play – to make the healthy choice the easy choice. 

Kansas Trails Council
Topeka – Shawnee/Statewide
$52,500
Funding to support the development of regional “trail hubs” across Kansas using “Trail in a Box” training, technical assistance, and volunteer units.

Shawnee County Parks and Recreation Foundation
$10,000
Topeka – Shawnee
Funding to support community engagement of public trails and green spaces for underserved populations

CAPACITY BUILDING
Developing core organizational skills and capabilities in order to increase effectiveness, impact, and sustainability.

Domestic Violence Association of Central Kansas
$30,000
Salina – Saline/Central Kansas
Funding to support a security system at the association’s new emergency shelter.

KC Healthy Kids
$20,000
Kansas City – Wyandotte
Funding to support advocacy and policy work related to increased access to healthy foods - especially among vulnerable families and children  – through a reduction/elimination in the food sales tax.

INTEGRATED CARE INITIATIVE
Supporting primary care and behavioral health safety net systems that endeavor to move toward integrated service delivery models, efforts include provider and clinician education, peer collaboration, technical assistance, readiness assessments and planning, model implementation and sustainment, and payment reform. 

COMCARE of Sedgwick County
$150,000
Wichita – Sedgwick
Funding to support sustaining primary and mental health care integration, including staffing, training and professional education.

Labette Center for Mental Health Services, Inc.
$150,000
Parsons – Labette
Funding to support sustaining primary and mental health care integration, including staffing, training and professional education.

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY & NUTRITION
Supporting the efforts of rural communities to increase access to healthy, affordable food.

American Heart Association – Midwest Affiliate
$146,950
Statewide
Funding to support a three-year healthy food systems/nutrition education pilot program; guided by Kansas Tribal Health Committee and in partnership with Kansas State Research & Extension.

Harvey County Food & Farm Council
$8,000
Newton – Harvey
Funding to restructure the organization to include more diverse stakeholders while developing a 3-year detailed workplan focused on healthy food systems.

Peabody Main Street USA
$60,000
Peabody – Marion
Funding to support a community coalition to increase access to fresh produce at the local grocery store.

Western Prairie Resource Conservation & Development Area, Inc.
$60,000
Goodland – Northwest Kansas
Funding to support capacity building around healthy food access in eight NWK counties.

RESPONSIVE GRANTS & SPECIAL INITIATIVES
Supporting research, education, public engagement, communications, and other efforts aimed at advancing Sunflower Foundation’s mission. 

Curators of the University of Missouri
$30,000
Statewide
Funding to support the Kansas News Service health programming.

OTHER GRANTS & AWARDS

Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas, Inc.
$96,800
Statewide
Funding to engage state membership organizations to participate in a learning network focused on innovative systems solutions for the effective delivery of health care, behavioral health, and public health services.

Humanities Kansas
$10,000
Statewide
Funding to support community librarians and other related partners on how best to host and facilitate community conversations on challenging and critically important issues.

Kansas Department of Health and Environment – Bureau of Health Promotion
$10,000
Statewide
Funding to further develop the public health workforce through delivery of the Kansas Evidence-Based Public Health Course.

Kansas Library Association
$10,000
Statewide
Funding to support the 2019 KLA annual conference, including a presentation from author and journalist Sarah Smarsh on the value of libraries in civic life.

Wyandot Inc
$10,000
Kansas City – Wyandotte
Funding to support the final editing and screening for a new film/documentary to explore the effects of trauma on the Veteran and Urban African American communities. The documentary will look at the similarities of trauma in these two very different groups and the redemptive ways they are recovering.