If not for Star School, many Missouri teenagers like Adam would have no good educational options as they leave the juvenile justice system. The online program by LINC and the state Department of Youth Services has helped more than 630 youths since 2013.
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Gladstone Caring Communities will host its second annual health fair entitled Bike Safety Rodeo Health and FInancial Fair Sat., October 4 at Gladstone Elementary in Kansas City Public Schools.
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Leaders and community members from Kansas City met at the Kauffman Foundation on Tues., August 12 to talk about ways to help young men of color succeed.
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Project Shine Hickman Mills is coming up July 13 to get Smith-Hale College Preparatory ready for the 2013-2014 school year.
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Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri Sly James hosts a panel discussion with community and education leaders.
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LINC's founder Bert Berkley, Gary Stangler, Marty Blank, Phyllis Brunson, and Landon Rowland share their stories about the beginning of the Local Investment Commission.
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Watch video of the Day of Reading at Garcia, Rogers and Foreign Language Academy in the Kansas City Public Schools. With help from our local partners and FirstBook we distributed 10,000 books to every student in the Kansas City Public Schools.
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High School students from Paseo Academy of Fine and Performing arts volunteer at the LINC after-school program at Faxon Montessori in the Kansas City Public Schools.
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On April 30, Marty Blank, President of the Institute for Educational Leadership and Director of the Coalition for Community Schools, spoke with a group of nearly 100 LINC staff members about the role of community leaders and cross-boundary leadership.
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On Saturday, April 6, Belvidere Elementary in the Grandview school district held a free health care event.
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Kansas City, Mo. Mayor Sly James read to students at Chouteau Elementary in the North Kansas City School District.
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LINC has produced a video for our partners at Northwest Communities Development Cooperation about senior services in Independence. NWCDC will feature the video at their 2013 Gala on Thursday, April 4.
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