Best Platte County Grants for Nonprofits in Missouri

Our Mission

The Community Foundation’s mission is to improve the quality of life in Greater Kansas City by increasing charitable giving, educating and connecting donors to community needs they care about, and leading on critical community issues.

Scholarships

We offer hundreds of different scholarships for students in and around Kansas City.

Greater Kansas City Alumnae Panhellenic Scholarship Fund

This scholarship opportunity assists sorority women who graduated from a Greater Kansas City Metro high school and are also attending any university as an undergraduate senior or graduate student.

This scholarship is non-renewable.

Our Mission

The Community Foundation’s mission is to improve the quality of life in Greater Kansas City by increasing charitable giving, educating and connecting donors to community needs they care about, and leading on critical community issues.

Scholarships

We offer hundreds of different scholarships for students in and around Kansas City.

KCI Rotary Scholarship

This fund was established by the KCI Rotary Educational Foundation to provide academic scholarships to graduating seniors of high schools located in Platte County.

Scholarships will be awarded on an annual basis and disbursed in equal payments in August and January.

Minimum of $1,000 annually to be paid in the fall semester for up to four consecutive years (students must submit grades to GKCCF).

Our Mission

The Community Foundation’s mission is to improve the quality of life in Greater Kansas City by increasing charitable giving, educating and connecting donors to community needs they care about, and leading on critical community issues.

Scholarships

We offer hundreds of different scholarships for students in and around Kansas City.

Kilgore Family Pancreatic Cancer Scholarship Fund

The purpose of the Fund shall be to provide post-secondary scholarships to graduating seniors from high schools in the Greater Kansas City area who have personally been affected by pancreatic cancer and who plan to continue their education at a two-year or four-year college or university or at a technical school.

Our Mission

The Community Foundation’s mission is to improve the quality of life in Greater Kansas City by increasing charitable giving, educating and connecting donors to community needs they care about, and leading on critical community issues.

Scholarships

We offer hundreds of different scholarships for students in and around Kansas City.

Pastor Otis L. Cobbins, Sr. Memorial Scholarship

The Pastor Otis L. Cobbins, Sr. Memorial Scholarship honors a young individual(s) who is furthering their education and exemplifies the attributes of Pastor Cobbins, Sr. These attributes include: honest; integrity; hard working; strong character; love of humanity; servant to community and family; trustworthy; and committed.

Our Mission

The Community Foundation’s mission is to improve the quality of life in Greater Kansas City by increasing charitable giving, educating and connecting donors to community needs they care about, and leading on critical community issues.

Grants Administered by the Community Foundation

The Community Foundation administers competitive grant opportunities for nonprofit organizations on behalf of donors with funds at the Community Foundation as well as external funders. 

Variety KC Ten Parks Project

Variety KC is a children’s charity committed to helping kids of all abilities Be Active, Be Social, and Belong by providing adaptive equipment, therapies, and opportunities for activity and full inclusion.

Grant Focus

Variety KC is partnering with municipalities to develop large, destination-level inclusive playgrounds serving children and families of all abilities across Greater Kansas City. Through the Ten Parks Project, Variety KC, with anchor support from the Mallouk Family Foundation, aims to build the region’s first network of fully inclusive play spaces, shaped by Universal Design principles and informed by individuals with disabilities and their families.