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.
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The tournament drew 138 players to Gladstone Elementary School in Kansas City. Here are the results and a photo gallery.
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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.
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‘Looking at tougher times’: Nonprofits concerned about uncertainty of Jackson County COVID relief funds
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“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.”
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Thefts from SNAP accounts pose an ongoing threat to families who rely on food assistance for groceries, Missouri official warns.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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“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.”
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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.
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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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“It’s a new day. A new journey. We’re going to work on our community organizing . . . get members back, thriving, being safe in their community and making sure they have a stake in everything that goes on in their neighborhoods.”
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The Caring Communities Day celebration packs so much fun, LINC is doing it twice, this time heading to Kansas City’s Southland. The Fall Festival, Oct. 19, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., will bring free music, food, games, family resources and more to Longview Shopping Plaza at Blue Ridge Boulevard and Longview Road.
Read More ...The LINC Commission will meet on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024, 4 p.m., at the Kauffman Conference Center, 4801 Rockhill Rd., Kansas City, Mo.
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Following the most violent year in Kansas City’s history, award-winning filmmaker Michael Price explores successful crime reduction programs across the region in search of solutions.
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Free movie night at Starlight Theatre Saturday drew thousands from all over Kansas City, and LINC made sure its LINC kids were heard. “If you are in a LINC program,” came the call out from the stage, “I want you to scream as loud as you can!” And suddenly thousands sounded like tens of thousands.
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“Last week we talked a lot about the problems,” the Urban League's Gwen Grant said. “Today we’re going to talk about what needs to be done . . . We’re going to get to work, folks.”
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Just a little more than a day before the Chiefs were to kick off the new football season, the NFL came to town to celebrate — and surprise — one of LINC’s partners in the work of spreading healthy, locally grown food.
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The summer food benefits will be added automatically to EBT cards for most qualifying families. Other families need to apply and the deadline is August 31, 2024.
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