They know what Bolton is getting at. This is what it means to be a caring community here in Kansas City, where 183 people died of homicide in 2023, many of them 18 and younger; here, where in 2024, by early August, 90 more have died. “You all feel it,” Bolton says. “This is what the people coming to you are going through.”
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LINC’s Caring Communities Day — Version 3.0 — just gets bigger and better. All the free food, entertainment, music, dancing, games, prizes and family resources return Saturday, Aug. 10, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Morning Star Youth and Family Life Center on the corner of 27th Street and Prospect Avenue in Kansas City, Mo. See why it's a big party with a big mission.
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Bert Berkley was LINC’s founder and our champion. He was the people’s champion. Berkley created LINC 32 years ago in a firm belief in the wisdom and power of communities. He believed in the right of families and neighborhood leaders to shape their own destinies from their homes, schools and meeting halls.
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Start the music. Raise the curtain. Teenagers, this is for you. Kansas City is piloting a TeenTix program that is giving teenagers opportunities to attend top Kansas City shows for only $5 a ticket.
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LINC students joined groups of youths from across the city who gathered together to share their experiences, learn from each other and to collaborate with youth and adult advocates who are working to end violence in Kansas City.
Read More ...The LINC Commission will meet on Monday, July 15, 2024, 4 p.m., at the Kauffman Conference Center, 4801 Rockhill Rd., Kansas City, Mo.
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Everyone who comes to LINCWorks “is on a journey,” said Program Director Sonny Williams. “It’s what shapes the person. And we walk with them.”
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Somewhere on the other end of their walk, a job waits. It might be cleaning some tools, weeding a tomato plot, mending a fence. But no rush. The walk along a gravel path in these 10 acres under a south Kansas City summer sky is just as much a part of the BoysGrow experience.
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Check out some of the sights — and sounds — of LINC’s Summer 2024. The rapping with Healthy Hip Hop, honing basketball skills at NBA star Christian Braun’s Champ Camp, water play at Phillips Elementary and drumming with the Urban Bucket Brigade Bootcamp were some of the highlights of an adventurous season of recreation, adventure and learning.
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“We have a good heart,” said Faxon student Zykhale, 12. When his classmates began imagining making Faxon’s playground accessible for their classmate, Elvis, and other students with disabilities, “we all liked the idea and we went with it.”
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LINC’s overnight adventure combines passion for sports with a serious mission to help young boys and men make strong decisions in life.
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LINC’s Mighty Wild Eagles Drill Team and Drum Line got Independence’s Juneteenth celebration off to a raucous start at the Independence Uptown Market June 29, 2024.
Read More ...The LINC Commission will meet on Tuesday, June 18, 2024, 4 p.m., at the Kauffman Conference Center, 4801 Rockhill Rd., Kansas City, Mo.
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Bullying, says SuEllen Fried, never was and never should have been “just part of growing up. We now know children who bullied are more likely to commit crimes as adults. Mental health crises among youth are driving a tragic suicide rate. What the world needs now — and what LINC’s team of after-school programming supervisors and staff are learning — are lessons in empathy.
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“It’s real,” said Monica Henderson, of the violence that killed her 12-year-old son. She, Mayor Quinton Lucas and others joined the End Gun Violence rally with a message to everyone at risk of violence: “Your life is truly valuable.”
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The Center School District’s Michelle Kruse and FOX 4 News reporter Kathy Quinn surprised LINC’s Caring Communities team at a recent monthly food distribution, celebrating the ongoing act of kindness with a $400 gift from the TV station’s Pay It Forward campaign.
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A fabulous 2023-2024 school year came to a close with school and family celebrations with our partners across LINC’s Caring Communities. Here is a video glimpse at just some of the fun.
Read More ...The Local Investment Commission (LINC) is applying for grant funding from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s 21st Century Community Learning Centers program (21 CCLC).
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“What’s special about today is we are in the Third District here in Kansas City,” said yoga instructor Debonie Lewis, “and we are bringing the urban core and yoga together. We’re allowing people and their families to come out and a have a morning of relaxation, a morning of fun, a morning of movement and meditation.”
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The Digital Inclusion Fund is back. Because persistent gaps still separate KC-area families from essential digital connections, a renewed campaign beginning June 3 will be taking applications to draw from a $250,000 fund to support area organizations in the work of digital equity.
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