Mission
Creating partnerships to improve lives, build relationships and revitalize neighborhoods within Ivanhoe and surrounding communities.
Key Facts
Geographic areas served:
Urban neighborhoods in urban Kansas City, Missouri
Target demographics:
The people we serve are the residents of an urban Kansas City neighborhood. The majority of these residents are senior citizens, many of whom are raising their grandchildren, and the rest are mostly single moms with a number of children. Nearly 45% of these children live below the poverty level.
Results to date:
We offer a multitude of programs to assist the residents in taking back their community - life skills classes, tutoring, family support, computer classes, health initiatives, minor home repair - but the greatest accomplishment is that we have given them hope, combined with the knowledge that they deserve a better life than they have been living and the tools to make that happen.
Direct beneficiaries per year: 500
Obstacles:
We need more space and more staff, both of which are connected to more funding. Transportation is also a problem in that 33% of the residents have no vehicle. We pick people up but it takes lots of time
Your donation of 1000 enables us to:
teach a 15-year old the intricacies of becoming an entrepreneur in our six-week summer Academy of Opportunity
Your donation of 100 enables us to:
rent a bus to take 20 families to the zoo
Your donation of 50
buy books written by African American authors for our youth book club
Key Staff
Patsy Shawver, Executive Director
Colleen Innis, Program Manager