KU’s Center for Community Health & Development to Play Key Role in Kansas City Economic Initiative
The University of Kansas’ Center for Community Health & Development has been selected to assist in a major economic development effort launched by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
The Kansas City-based foundation “has chosen KU’s Center for Community Health & Development to provide expertise to the foundation and its community partners.” As part of this selection, “the KU center will receive a $353,000 grant.”
The project is part of the Kauffman Foundation’s new Collective Impact Initiative, which “aims to improve college access and completion, enhance workforce and career development, and support entrepreneurship.”
A major focus of the initiative is equity. “A key goal of the initiative is to improve equity in all three of those areas.”
The KU center “has gained a national reputation for promoting equity in how communities grow and develop.” It is also known for operating The Community Tool Box, a website that “draws more than 6 million users per year who are looking for ways to build up communities.”
Through this partnership, “the KU center will provide technical assistance to the Kauffman Foundation, and offer webinars and other training for the foundation and its partners.”
The initiative challenges “organizations in the KC area to ‘think and act differently in solving some of our region’s most pressing systems-level challenges.’”
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