Corporate

Power & Light: $10M in Live! Block upgrades planned before downtown’s Big 12 ‘opening day’

By Tommy Felts / November 14, 2024

The Kansas City Live! Block in the Power & Light District — a place KCMO Councilman Crispen Rea calls the living room of Kansas City — is set for a $10 million upgrade, local business and civic leaders announced Thursday. Key updates also target the popular District nightclub Mosaic. “It’s become an engine that generates…

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Google makes new $120K pledge to KC schools; region embraces a future built on flexibility 

By Tommy Felts / November 14, 2024

In an era of artificial intelligence and high-tech solutions, the children of Kansas City remain a vital piece of the region’s future economic sustainability, said Utaukwa Allen, announcing a new financial pledge from Google that targets local students. Kansas City Public Schools have been selected for a $120,000 partnership with Google to strengthen KCPS’ STEM…

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$11.2M+ awarded: 53 orgs tapped for first-ever tranche of Kauffman capacity building grants

By Tommy Felts / November 11, 2024

A new grantmaking strategy from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is manifesting through an inaugural round of funding to local and outside organizations whose work supports the priorities of college access and completion, workforce and career development, and entrepreneurship. The Kauffman Foundation on Monday announced its first tranche of grants — totaling more than $11.2…

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K-State awarded $500K state grant to boost border-to-border innovation, entrepreneurship

By Tommy Felts / November 7, 2024

Startland News’ Startup Road Trip series explores innovative and uncommon ideas finding success in rural America and Midwestern startup hubs outside the Kansas City metro.  [divide] MANHATTAN, Kansas — A newly launched grant program is expected to help Kansas’ six state universities accelerate innovation activities within the world of higher education. At Kansas State University,…

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These KC nonprofits showed resiliency; their reward: $200K grants from Bank of America

By Tommy Felts / November 6, 2024

Bank of America this fall continued the 20-year run for its Neighborhood Builder grants program, awarding two Kansas City nonprofits with $200,000 grants and access to exclusive leadership training resources and a national network of nonprofit peers. The 2024 honorees are Kansas City Girls Preparatory Academy and Cultivate Kansas City — tapped for their work…

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