The REACH Foundation this week announced grants totaling $399,000 to nine organizations that use care connector services to help low-income and medically underserved individuals secure the care they need. In keeping with the foundation’s recent decision to simplify grant application and decision processes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, REACH awarded the 12-month grants based … Continued
News Release The REACH Healthcare Foundation Board of Directors elected six community members with diverse professional experience and community backgrounds to the board at the March 26 meeting. Three individuals were incumbents elected for a second term. The following individuals will begin their board terms on June 1, 2020: Guy Collier, Senior Counsel of Health … Continued
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented strain on our region’s health and human service safety net. We are aware of, and gravely concerned about its impact on our region’s nonprofit partners and the clients they serve. Many health and human services organizations are rightly concerned about the mounting pressures on their services, staff members … Continued
The safety and well-being of our REACH Foundation colleagues, community partners and the public remain our highest priority as the negative impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) rapidly become more pronounced across the Kansas City region. At REACH, we are looking to experts such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, so that we are … Continued
The Metro Kansas City Census Equity Fund, an initiative organized by a coalition of private and public foundations to increase participation in the 2020 Census, has awarded grants totaling nearly $229,000 to 23 nonprofit organizations to mobilize hard to count and other vulnerable populations in the Kansas City metropolitan area. The funded projects include census … Continued
The 2020 state legislative sessions in Kansas and Missouri are nearing the halfway point, and we are seeing continuing, strong public support for consideration of Medicaid expansion — a policy priority at the top of the foundation’s policy agenda. In Kansas, health systems leaders, health advocates and chambers of commerce from across the state have … Continued
