Kansas City Kansas Community College Foundation
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Mission
The Kansas City Kansas Community College Foundation supports the overall mission of KCKCC to inspire individuals and enrich our community one student at a time, and its strategic goals and initiatives. Established in 1977, the KCKCC Foundation is the fundraising arm of the College. We are a separate 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. We build philanthropic support among our alumni, individuals, businesses, corporations and foundations that helps builds support of our students and funds other College needs initiatives not otherwise covered by tuition and tax revenues.
Ruling year
1984
Executive Director
Mary Spangler
Main address
7250 State Avenue Suite 3500
Kansas City, KS 66112 USA
Formerly known as
Kansas City Kansas Community College Endowment Association
EIN
48-0947391
NTEE code
Community/Junior College (B41)
IRS filing requirement
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Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Student Scholarship Program
KCKCC Foundation administers student scholarships every semester through a robust and long running Scholarship Program. Donors can create, maintain and endow scholarship funds to serve KCKCC students with their educational expenses and beyond graduation. Currently, KCKCC Foundation offers funding from 53 different scholarship sources including 12 self-sustaining endowed funds. Students are required to fill out a general application and answer essay questions each semester to qualify for funding as well as meet the minimum criteria set up by the donor(s). So far, KCKCC Foundation has served roughly 550 students in the 2021-22 academic year awarding over 750 scholarships for the summer, fall and spring semesters.
Alumni Association
Kansas City Kansas Community College Alumni Association welcomes all alumni! No matter if you earned your associates degree, a certificate, transferred on, or just took a class or two – KCKCC is where you began. The KCKCC Alumni Association is proud to be part of your foundation and you are always welcome back as a Blue Devil. The KCKCC Alumni Association membership is automatic and of no cost to our alumni. Benefits include the Blue Devil Revel e-newsletter, KCKCC athletic season pass, Jazz by the Lake series, admission to the KCKCC Art Gallery, discounts to the bookstore, exclusive alumni events, and access to our online learning consortium! We welcome all of our alumni to stay involved by updating their contact information, getting their employer or company involved as a sponsor, volunteering, donating, and joining us for upcoming events in person and online. Once a Blue Devil, always a Blue Devil!
Where we work
Affiliations & memberships
Kansas City Kansas Chamber of Commerce 2024
Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) 2024
National Association of Scholarship Providers 2024
Kansas Advancement Professionals 2024
Non-Profit Connect 2024
Grant Professionals Association 2024
Mid-America Charitable Gift Planners 2024
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Total dollar amount of scholarship awarded
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults, Students
Related Program
Student Scholarship Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of students who receive scholarship funds and/or tuition assistance
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults, Students
Related Program
Student Scholarship Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This metric reflects the number of students who receive scholarships from KCKCC Foundation. It does not include all students who receive tuition assistance at KCKCC via other funding sources.
Number of alumni (regardless of last date of enrollment) who submit updated contact information to the alumni office within the most recent academic year
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
An alumni database was launched in late 2019. Since then all records from 1983 and up have been moved to the Foundation and go through quarterly and yearly analytic screening to stay updated.
Number of internal faculty and/or staff who participate in the internal giving campaign.
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Related Program
Student Scholarship Program
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
The "Family Fund" supports the Foundation Scholarship Program and is continuing to grow. We continue to see an increase in gift amounts despite the number of givers being stagnate.
Total dollars received in contributions
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
The KCKCC Foundation has developed a comprehensive giving program, including a focus on scholarships, estate gifts, events, alumni and donor cultivation, capital campaign, and special program support.
Goals & Strategy
Reports and documents
Download strategic planHow we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We share the feedback we received with the people we serve, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Kansas City Kansas Community College Foundation
Board of directorsas of 07/05/2024
Mr. Matt Watkins
Reece Commercial Real Estate
Term: 2021 - 2024
Matt Watkins
Reece Commercial Real Estate
Linda Hoskins Sutton
KCKCC Board of Trustees Representative
Tom Mayfield
American Family Insurance
Leah Wilken
CommunityAmerica Credit Union
Greg Mosier
KCKCC President
Erik Dickinson
Urban Ranger Corps
Amarilis Valdez-Dempsey
Bank of America
Andrea Generaux
Local Initiative Support Network of Greater Kansas City
Brad Isndard
Kansas City Kansas Public Schools (USD 500)
Danielle Jones
Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses
Joe Marsh
Orange EV
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.
Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
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