The United Way of Greater Kansas City is excited to announce the opening of the 2025 Impact 100 grant cycle!
Donor Name: United Way of Greater Kansas City
State: Kansas, Missouri
County: Cass County (MO), Clay County (MO), Jackson County (MO), Johnson County (KS), Platte County (MO), Wyandotte County (KS)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/25/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
United Way of Greater Kansas City is seeking proposals from area nonprofit organizations that are part the community’s health and human service ecosystem for inclusion in the 2025 United Way Impact 100, a network of high-impact health and human service providers supported by United Way of Greater Kansas City.
United Way Impact 100 Investment Areas
United Way of Greater Kansas City invests in a wide range of health and human services that together comprise the community’s social service safety net. This includes a range of service delivery modalities including direct services, systems-level interventions and policy advocacy. They also make investments in the continuum of services from crisis response, intervention, prevention and developmental approaches.
Grant Period
Organizations selected for the Impact 100 receive a one-year, unrestricted grant in support of the organization’s mission.
Individual Organizational Criteria
United Way will assess individual applicant organizations based on the following selection criteria. Organizations selected for inclusion in the United Way Impact 100 will have:
- A track record of effective service to the community within the health and human service system in the six-county metro area (Cass, Clay, Jackson and Platte Counties in Missouri; Johnson and Wyandotte County in Kansas).
- A mission aligned with United Way’s established pillars of investment in the community —Health, Education and Financial Stability. (Organizations should demonstrate alignment with one or more focus areas under Health, Education and Financial Stability.)
- A demonstrated understanding of the community needs and underlying conditions that the organization’s programming is intended to address, as well as the unique factors affecting the specific target population served by the organization.
- Program design that effectively supports participant outcomes, including service delivery strategies rooted in evidence-based or promising approaches, well-qualified staff responsible for delivery services, a system for collecting outcomes data, and evidence of successes in the achievement of those outcomes.
- A track record of operating with a high degree of organizational accountability and transparency with respect to governance, fiscal sustainability, financial reporting, and adherence to external standards of accountability. This includes, but is not limited to, government reporting for nonprofits or adherence to standards set by third parties, if applicable, such as governmental funding entities, certifying or accrediting bodies, national affiliates, etc.
- A demonstrated commitment to equity and inclusion, as demonstrated by services that are accessible by a population that is racially and ethnically diverse, that may face barriers due to disability, age, differences in culture or language, gender, gender identity or sexual orientation; or that otherwise may face barriers to access because of economic status. United Way recognizes that not all programs serve a similarly diverse target population. However, all organizations can and should consider how their services are relevant, accessible to, and inclusive of an increasingly diverse community.
- A clearly defined, credible and effective role with the human service ecosystem of which it is a part. United Way is seeking to invest in organizations that have successfully found a place in the human service subsectors of which they are a part that enables them to cooperate with other stakeholders in supporting other stakeholders, through referral relationships, collaborative service delivery, and effective operation of the larger system of which the organization is part.
Types of Organizations not funded by United Way
United Way does not provide grants to the following types of organizations, which are outside the core health and human service focus. This list is provided to clarify the health and human service focus of United Way’s grantmaking.
- Animal welfare organizations
- Environmental organizations that do not have a human service, socioeconomic or racial equity focus
- Museums, arts and cultural organizations
- Entrepreneurship or small business, without a primary focus on low/moderate-income or disenfranchised populations
- Medical research organizations that do not provide direct healthcare services
- Journalism, news reporting and media organizations
- Organizations whose primary focus is grantmaking or scholarships
- Schools—both K-12 district, charter, and private schools, as well as colleges and universities
- Religious organizations, except those offering health and human service programming that do not include religious content, limit services to those of a certain faith, or require participation in religious or spiritual activities.
For more information, visit United Way of Greater Kansas City.
