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It started slowly, but once federal pandemic aid for rent and utilities began reaching Americans in need, more than 80% went as designed to low-income households. LINC played a key role in the Kansas City area.
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The stars came out, dressed for LINC’s Prom Night at Ervin Elementary School in Hickman Mills. Shining dresses and silky suits — on many kids and parents — helped spread the partying vibe as deejay music, balloons and shimmering streamers filled out the scene across the school’s gym floor.
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As Kansas City is being recognized for its citywide crusade for reading, the national director of the Campaign for Grade Level Reading took a moment recently to honor one of the movement’s “fiercest and most relentless champions” — LINC Founder and former Chairman, Bert Berkley.
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“This is what a community is about,” Hickman Mills Superintendent Yaw Obeng said. “In building collaboration with our district, it leads to parent engagement, vendors engagement, and, eventually, student success.”
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Ina P. Montgomery, creator of Urban TEC, is still the tempest who – after a white suburban Kansas City guidance counselor told her she probably wasn’t college material – declared with great Black pride that she’d storm the world in business for herself right out of high school.
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Everything that’s motivated the 12 years of work in the Kansas City Black History Project — the research, the storytelling, the teaching and sharing — has gone fully digital. An enhanced webpage unleashes the stories of more than 80 Black men and women into sortable lists, school lesson plans, poetic video, essays and links to recorded oral history.
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When problems boil up between renters and landlords, hotline services can be overwhelmed and legal aid offices busy. Now renters under stress can go online to the Tenant Problem Solver for help.
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If you earned $73,000 or less in 2021 you can file your income tax return for free. And if you earned $58,000 or less, getting help to file your taxes is also free. Here’s how to get started.
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A PRiME Center study from Saint Louis University raises up high-poverty schools in Missouri that are among the best in showing growth in state test performance.
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The six years it took for Superintendent Mark Bedell to lead the Kansas City Public Schools to the promised land of full accreditation would have been wilderness enough.
But the joy that swept over the resilient school district Tuesday burst from 22 years of pain that longtime educators and a community of partners and supporters have carried since the state stripped accreditation in 2000.
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We knew we’d be stronger and healthier 2021. What we didn't know was just how roughly the new year would continue to test our resolve. But we came through it all again, together. Enjoy the look back and be assured we are ready for the next ride together. Happy 2022, everyone.
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It’s pretty clear now. The U.S. Marines’ massive Toys for Tots gift-giving project and all its big red bags blends beautifully with LINC blue. See what it takes to sort, bag, tag and route 50,000 toys.
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The judges were waiting. And Faxon Elementary School’s robotics teams were up. Nervous? Oh yes. But now it was time to show why Faxon and its partners at the Front Porch Alliance this year decided to move its robotics program to after-school hours with LINC.
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For a day, Kansas City law officers traded police cruisers for shopping carts. Their partners were children, sent from LINC and Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church, eager to push the limits of $100 gift cards — and make friends.
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We love chess. Now LINC’s beginner chess lesson has been captured on video. The virtual class is ideal for a parent who wants to learn how to help their child start their chess journey — or to get started themselves. See how LINC teaches the game.
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For more than a decade, researchers with the Kansas City Public Library and the Black Archives of Mid-America have been working with LINC to tell the deep and influential history of Kansas City Black women and men. Now it’s time that Wikipedia got up to speed.
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This is how ideas can wiggle into children’s heads and take shape as they grow. “We’re talking about not only allowing them to dream,” says LINC’s Keith Brown, “but really imagining that these realities can happen.”
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LINC, Morning Star and the Kansas City Fire Department accepted awards for the fast-acting teamwork that helped deliver thousands of Covid-19 vaccinations for communities hardest-hit by the pandemic, including hundreds of Mattie Rhodes households.
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With holidays coming and the promise of family gatherings and parties, Covid-19 vaccinations are now approved to help protect children ages 5 to 11 and their families from getting and spreading the virus. Here’s where to get them.
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Winter is on the way, and a LINC volunteer knitted stocking hats for children that were richly colored and soft as plush teddy bears.
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