Eight Kansas nonprofits receive grants from the Walmart Foundation
The Walmart Foundation has donated $315,000 to eight Kansas nonprofits, including Harvesters-The Community Food Network.
The nonprofits selected across the state focus on hunger relief and healthy eating, sustainability, career opportunity and women’s economic empowerment, the retailer’s foundation arm said.
Harvesters received a $25,000 grant to support nutrition, education and healthy eating efforts in Kansas.
The other Kansas recipients:
▪ Boys & Girls Club of Manhattan: $25,000 to support Portable Kitchen, a pilot program being tested with kindergartners through 12th-graders.
▪ Boys & Girls Club of Topeka: $30,294 to support its after-school meal program launched in March.
▪ Dress for Succeess Wichita: $37,966 to support its Professional Women’s Group, which provides workforce development programming.
▪ Kansas Food Bank: $50,000 to provide weekend packets of food to chronically hungry children.
▪ Northeast Kansas Area Agency on Aging: $56,000 to support its Homestead Nutrition project by buying three vehicles to deliver meals to those in need.
▪ Senior Services of Southeast Kansas Inc.: $46,000 to support its Meals on Wheels program.
▪ Urban League of Kansas: $44,740 to support its workforce development program that helps 90 low-income individuals by providing school supplies, uniforms and other requirements for enrollemnt in the Patient Care Assistant program.
| The Star
This story was originally published October 14, 2014 at 1:00 AM.