LINC Commission Meeting — January 21, 2025
The LINC Commission will meet on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, 4 p.m., at the Kauffman Conference Center, 4801 Rockhill Rd., Kansas City, Mo.
Read More ...The LINC Commission will meet on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, 4 p.m., at the Kauffman Conference Center, 4801 Rockhill Rd., Kansas City, Mo.
Read More ...As we look forward to 2025, take a journey back with us through the year that was. Thank you all our families, neighbors and community partners for making it a wonderful year.
Read More ...“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” — Jackie Robinson. Welcome to the 2025 Kansas City Black History Project with a new collection of free booklets, posters and calendars to be shared in honor and celebration of great men and women in our city’s history. Click to learn more and download the project.
Read More ...Genesis School in Kansas City, despite public outpourings of support from its parents and staff, is back in the hard place it was two years ago: imperiled by its sponsor that wants the school to close.
Read More ...It’s not the sparkling green paint job that Garry mentions first when listing favorite things about his new bike. Not the smooth glide. Not the speed. The Gladstone Elementary student in LINC’s Caring Communities program was in love with the brakes.
Read More ...Hundreds of friends and neighbors from all across our LINC Caring Communities celebrated Christmas Eve together at the Morning Star Youth and Family Life Center at the Third Annual Christmas Eve Luncheon with Councilwoman Melissa Patterson Hazley, Rev. John Modest Miles, the KC Fire Department and the LINC team.
Read More ...Jackson County has established an application process for property owners 62 and older to freeze your current tax rate so that it would not rise if property tax rates were to rise in the coming years. Here’s how to apply.
Read More ...Maybe it happened within a half hour, certainly by the 45-minute mark. But at some point, the LINC kids’ understanding of the simple directions from the KC Clay Guild art teachers ran fully amok — just like it was supposed to.
Read More ...The numbers — like Kansas City’s generosity and love — keep growing. This holiday season the U.S. Marine Corps’ Toys for Tots operation in the Kansas City area is aiming to distribute more than 52,000 toys. That’s a 30% increase since LINC first started helping the Marines in the monumental task five years ago.
Read More ...The tournament drew 138 players to Gladstone Elementary School in Kansas City. Here are the results and a photo gallery.
Read More ...One year after their school was shaken by the threat of closure, families and staff at Genesis School in Kansas City were back before the state making a case for its future with renewed strength.
Read More ...‘Looking at tougher times’: Nonprofits concerned about uncertainty of Jackson County COVID relief funds
Read More ...“This is a very good thing for the community to have,” said 16-year-old Anthony, one of the LINC children sharing in the event. “We need to show our love and our kindness to spread good things around Kansas City.”
Read More ...Thefts from SNAP accounts pose an ongoing threat to families who rely on food assistance for groceries, Missouri official warns.
Read More ...Grocery stores and farmers markets throughout the Kansas City area are providing many families the opportunity to get twice the amount of fruits and vegetables for every dollar they spend.
Read More ...LINC’s Caring Communities sites celebrated the power of community schools with music, student performances, science shows, art, dance, lots of fun food and more during the month of October. Check out some of the scenes.
Read More ...A brilliant fall sun shone on LINC’s first Fall Festival — and on dancing and singing students, art shows, science shows, horse rides, crafts and rows of tables where community partners displayed their resources and services available to families in south Kansas City.
Read More ...“It builds team work. It builds relationships. And it gives kids a sense of belonging to something. We want them to know they are important. We’re putting people in place that are going to teach them those skills of life.”
Read More ...LINC and Hickman Mills throw a family night tailgate party with all the ingredients of a great time for a Ruskin High School football Friday.
Read More ...The depth of SuEllen Fried’s impact in the world can be measured many ways — in the volume of her wisdom, her books on beating bullying, by the lives of incarcerated men and women that were made more meaningful, and the children and adults she inspired to their better selves. But she leaves behind simple moments of love as well.
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