Thrive Allen County is one of 10 project teams across the state of Kansas awarded a Change Community Solutions grant.
NetWork Kansas, a Kansas-based nonprofit dedicated to the growth of entrepreneurship and small businesses, approved the awards this month in a grant effort that focuses on projects’ abilities to make “bold” changes in communities.
Thrive plans to use the $10,000 grant to enhance the structure of its Community Conversations, making them more engaging, future-focused, and empowering. They will seek to provide actionable next steps to involve residents in community building and development.
Community Conversations are Thrive Allen County’s main way to identify needs, potential projects, and leaders in our communities to get the work done. The intent is to develop a conversation model that fosters greater sustained community engagement and innovative future-thinking approaches to community challenges.
The next Community Conversation will be 6 p.m. Tuesday at Savonburg.
NetWork Kansas received funding support from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas, the Kansas Health Foundation, and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
This is the second grant round with awards totaling $95,000 disbursed in $5,000 and $10,000 allocations. The current funding round topped 2022’s grant disbursements, which amounted to $65,000.
