The Unified Government Hollywood Casino Fund strives to improve the health of Wyandotte County community members.
Donor Name: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
State: Kansas
County: Wyandotte County (KS)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/21/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Keeping with the intent of Healthy Communities Wyandotte, the focus will be to fund programs that increase knowledge and action toward long-term changes that enable Wyandotte County community members to eat healthy food and be physically active. The selection committee is seeking applications that demonstrate cultural relevance, address opportunities to increase knowledge and improve the food environment or support active living through utilization of Wyandotte County’s environmental infrastructure.
Areas of Interest
Highest consideration will be given to programs and projects that accomplish the following:
- Leverage additional funding, both private and public
- Demonstrate alignment with Wyandotte County’s Comprehensive Plan
- Demonstrate alignment with Healthy Communities Wyandotte and “work toward a happier, healthier Wyandotte for everyone”
- Collaborate efforts among programs or providers
- Demonstrate an effort to minimize duplication
- Have clearly established measurable outcomes and the ability to monitor and report them
- Reach at-risk or underserved populations.
Grant Period
The activities funded by the grants must be completed within one year.
Geographic Focus
The Unified Government Hollywood Casino Charitable Fund is limited to Wyandotte County. Specifically, organizations must clearly demonstrate that the clients/beneficiaries of the program are residents of Wyandotte County. Grantees will be required to report zip code data for program or service participants.
Grant Requirements
Grants are made only to nonprofits that have current 501(c)(3) status. Requests for general operating support will only be considered if the funding will be used to significantly expand the services of organizations.
Selection Process
- The Greater Kansas City Community Foundation will review all grant applications for eligibility and will submit the list of eligible applications to the Board of Commissioners
- The Board of Commissioners will serve as the Selection Committee
- Each Commissioner and the Mayor will be provided with grant applications and reports from 2024 and 2023 awards, when applicable
- Each Commissioner and the Mayor will designate in writing how they wish to allocate their share of the total funds
- The final distribution of funds must be approved by majority vote of the Board of Commissioners at a Commission meeting.
Areas of Exclusion
- Capital campaign
- Endowment campaign
- Annual fund drive
- Debt retirement or operating deficits
- Direct support to individuals, including scholarships
- Lobbying activities, legislation-related activities or political campaigns
- Activities that specifically benefit the members of an athletic, veteran, fraternal, sectarian or religious group
- Equipment expenses, unless the equipment will directly improve the organization’s ability to provide and deliver services
- Requests for general operating support will only be considered if the funding will be used to significantly expand the services of organization.
For more information, visit GKCCF.
