Images from the Hill – 2023
It’s been an eventful year for Sunflower Foundation and the Sunflower Nonprofit Center. Here’s a look back at some of the best images from 2023. https://youtu.be/_s-mMW3NdXg
Watch ‘The Hill That Healed a Nation’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN_t3TrsBGgFrom the days when the Prairie Band Potawatomi people settled on the hill, to the innovative and pioneering work of Security Benefit Association and Menninger Foundation, to Sunflower Foundation’s restoration work and the chapter that is still being written that soon will include the restoration of the Clock Tower building, “The Hill That Healed a […]
Trailer for ‘The Hill That Healed a Nation’
https://youtu.be/Jiek8lKgBEIWatch the official trailer of the feature-length documentary “The Hill that Healed a Nation,” which chronicles the history of the hill that is now home to the Sunflower Nonprofit Center. From the days when the Potawatomi people settled here, to the innovative and pioneering work of Security Benefit Association and Menninger Foundation, to Sunflower Foundation’s […]
Tour the Sunflower Nonprofit Center
Driven by the belief that a strong nonprofit sector contributes to the health, quality of life and economic stability in a community, in October 2021, Sunflower Foundation opened the Sunflower Nonprofit Center in the location we now call Healing Hill. The center serves as both a permanent home for the foundation and an investment in […]
Trail Appreciation Day 2023
Many of the Sunflower Trails partners included in this video joined us on January 30 at Sunflower State Trail Appreciation Day 2023 and helped make the event a great success! The work they are doing in trails is helping improve the health and quality of life for Kansans in every corner of the state.
Dr. Chen and Recipe4Health
The keynote speaker for the afternoon session of the Food is Medicine Learning Collaborative, held Aug. 24, 2022, at the Sunflower Nonprofit Center’s Powerhouse Education Center, was Dr. Steven Chen, Chief Medical Officer for All In Alameda County. He is using an innovative and integrative approach to providing health care in Alameda County, Calif., where […]
Food is Medicine as Disruptive Innovation
Trina Ragain, MSPH, President and Chief Eccentric of Eccentricity Consulting and formerly of Operation Food Search, kicked off the Aug. 24, 2022, Food is Medicine Learning Collaborative at the Sunflower Nonprofit Center’s Powerhouse Education Center with the presentation “Food is Medicine as Disruptive Innovation.”
Access to Nature
Spending time in nature is important to our health – both for our physical and mental well-being. However, not everyone has the access and ability to enjoy the outdoors. Whether the barriers are structural, systemic, or societal, the opportunity to experience nature’s healing powers remains out of reach for far too many Americans. Some organizations […]
Cultivating a Food is Medicine approach
Recording of the Food is Medicine Zoom meeting on Nov. 19, 2021. The recording starts abruptly a few minutes into the meeting and Dr. Marianna Wetherill’s presentation.
The Fresh Rx Story
Trina Ragain, MSPH, of Eccentricity Consulting, LLC, and formerly of Operation Food Search in St. Louis, took to the podium again at the Aug. 24, 2022, Food is Medicine Learning Collaborative to talk about her experience with Operation Food Search’s Fresh Rx: Nourishing Healthy Starts program. The program targets food insecurity in expectant mothers.