Our Mission
To Serve as a Catalyst for Improving the Health of All Kansans
Our Work
Investing in Communities
Healthy
Communities
Health
Systems
Nonprofit
Center
Learning Events
Collaborative learning is critical to supporting the mission of Sunflower Foundation. Through the Sunflower Nonprofit Center and its state-of-the-art meeting space, the foundation provides an environment conducive for organizations to connect and grow as they work to address the state’s most pressing health challenges.
The foundation is proud to highlight organizations that choose the Nonprofit Center as a hub for convening and developing forward-thinking solutions that contribute to a healthier future for the state.
Those solutions start here, at the Sunflower Nonprofit Center.
Our Impact
5.6 Million
meals served through “Feeding Kansas Kids”, in conjunction with Kansas Health Foundation
86 of 100
Kansas health departments received COVID-19 emergency funds to address needs during the pandemic
67
organizations held meetings or events at the Sunflower Nonprofit Center in its first year of operation
News & Stories
Sunflower Learning Collaborative highlights importance of nonprofit capacity building
Kansas Health Institute caught up with Sunflower Foundation President & CEO Brandon Skidmore and Health Systems Director Carlie Houchen last week during the foundation’s Spring 2025 Nonprofit Capacity Building Learning Collaborative.
Brandon and Carlie talked about the role the nonprofit sector plays in helping improve the health of Kansans, as well as the importance of helping nonprofits build their capacity so they can make an even bigger impact in their communities.
Watch the video below!
Latest News
Nava named KFA assistant director; Gering joins staff as grants & data analyst
Alyssa Nava has been named Kansas Fights Addiction assistant director, and Sunflower welcomes DJ Gering as its new grants and data analyst.
Seiler, Simmons join Sunflower Foundation Board of Trustees
Lea Ann Seiler of Hanston and Stephanie Simmons of Beloit have joined the nine-member Sunflower Board of Trustees.
Sunflower Foundation board welcomes new trustees, elects officers
The Sunflower Board of Trustees welcomed its newest members and elected a new slate of officers at its meeting June 12.
Sunflower joins Commerce, foundations to provide Towns Grant funding
Sunflower joined the Kansas Department of Commerce and the Dane G. Hansen and Kansas Health foundations to award $298,825 in Towns Grant funding.
