Zimmer named new CFO
The Sunflower Foundation is pleased to announce the hiring of veteran financial controller Shanna Zimmer as its new chief financial officer. Zimmer, of Topeka, joins Sunflower Foundation after spending the previous six years as a controller in both the health care and nonprofit sectors. She brings considerable experience in accounting processes; financial planning, reporting and […]
Scott gives $4M gift
Gift Will Help Organization Expand on Wide-Ranging Health Philanthropic Work TOPEKA, Kan. – Sunflower Foundation is pleased to announce that it has received a one-time, unrestricted gift of $4 million from billionaire philanthropist and novelist MacKenzie Scott. “We are grateful for and humbled by Ms. Scott’s gift,” said Billie Hall, Sunflower Foundation president and CEO. […]
Foundation launches Food is Medicine
As health systems across Kansas struggle to address the growing prevalence of chronic disease, which can cause devastating effects on individuals and families and contribute to the rising costs of health care, Sunflower Foundation is focusing on the critical role nutrition can play in preventing, treating, and even reversing these conditions. On Aug. 24, the […]
Mildred Store Remains Hub
MILDRED – Regena and Loren Lance have fond childhood memories of shopping at Charlie Brown’s grocery store in their tiny hometown of Mildred, Kan. Located in a building built in 1913 that once was a hardware store, feed store, garage and eventually a grocery store in the former cement boom town, Charlie Brown’s was the […]
Trails Can Fuel Tourism
K-State Research and Extension First Friday e-Call set for Aug. 5 TOPEKA, Kan. – When a community develops public trails, it’s not only making an investment in the health and well-being of its citizens, but also improving the appeal and vitality of the community itself – to residents and visitors alike. How trails can be […]
Market Continuing to Thrive
MORAN – When the lone grocery store in Moran, Kan., (pop. 479) was on the brink of closing in May 2018, a group of individuals in and around the town came to the rescue. The former Stub’s Market, 129 W. Randolph St., had been on the market for several years and was struggling to keep […]
Family Brings Back Humboldt Store
HUMBOLDT – Before Our Market Butcher & Grocery opened in July 2021, more than two years had passed since residents of Humboldt, Kansas in Allen County, had been able to buy fresh produce, meat, and other items at a local grocery store. Since Moon’s Hometown Market, which operated out of the same location as Our […]
Hays’ Werth Appointed to Board
Garden City’s Sosa, Goodland’s Schears Re-appointed TOPEKA, Kan. – Sunflower Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Tim Werth of Hays to the foundation’s Board of Trustees, as well as the re-appointments of trustees Liz Sosa of Garden City and Ben Schears of Goodland to the nine-member board. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt made […]
Riggs new Comms Director
Sunflower Foundation is pleased to announce the hiring of longtime Kansas newspaper journalist Brett Riggs as its new director of communications. He started in his new role on April 6. Riggs joins the foundation after having spent most of his 29-year career in the newspaper industry, including 24 years covering southwest Kansas news and sports […]
KGIH awards Coen Grants
Organizations in Sedgwick, Stafford Counties Receive Grants Addressing Food Insecurity TOPEKA, Kan. – Kansas Grantmakers in Health, a collaborative network of the state’s six health care foundations, is pleased to announce the awarding of $25,000 in grants to a pair of organizations that work to address food insecurity and access to healthy foods – causes […]