Tag: Excel Center

Goodwill’s adult high school launches first day; work continues toward long-term campus

By Tommy Felts / October 21, 2025

The region’s first-of-its-kind adult high school opened classes Monday, offering a glimpse into programming and projected outcomes for the Goodwill-run Excel Center now operating out of space at Metropolitan Community College’s Penn Valley campus. “The opening of the Excel Center is a major step, not just for our organization, but for the entire region,” said…

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Goodwill merger pushes expansion plans, KC’s new adult high school to the front of the store, leader says

By Tommy Felts / September 5, 2025

Consolidating operations between offices in Kansas City in St. Louis not only will produce one of the largest Goodwill footprints in the nation, said Mike Sinnett; the move is expected to bolster efforts to add more retail stores and deepen initiatives like the soon-to-open Excel Center at Bannister Road. Goodwill of Western Missouri and Eastern…

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Goodwill’s ‘adult high school’ in KC just scored major funding wins (and hired its first leader)

By Tommy Felts / May 20, 2025

A first-of-its kind adult high school in the region hit two big funding milestones this month, said organizers of the Excel Center, announcing six-figure financial contributions from the City of Kansas City, Missouri, and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, as well as a key hire. Led by Goodwill of Western Missouri and Eastern Kansas (MoKan…

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Goodwill opening first-of-its-kind KC adult high school near Oracle Cerner Innovation Campus

By Tommy Felts / October 2, 2024

A new “adult high school” offering free, onsite childcare to Missourians 21 and older is planned in Kansas City. Organizers are eyeing a fall 2025 opening and a first-year enrollment of 250 students. The project — dubbed The Excel Center — follows a model operated across the country in other communities for the past 10 years,…

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