Kansas
City
Charity Services
Kansas City Charity Services
Founded in 2009, Kansas City Charity Services, Inc
is a registered 501(c)3 Missouri Non-profit organization.
Our purpose is urban core community improvement through
strategic planning with various neighborhood community groups.
At present, Kansas City Charity Services is involved in revitalizing
the urban core, within the Neighborhood Strategy Areas
as designated by the City of Kansas City, Missouri.
ABOUT
Kansas City Charity Services is is redefining affordable, low-income housing.
We’re a local nonprofit organization that is working to build a more humane world where poverty is alleviated,
communities are healthy and all people can develop their full potential.
Our Vision
Kansas City Charity Services envisions a world, where community is inclusive for all people no mater social status nor income. We are committed to creating affordable homes and providing home ownership within 10 years with affordable monthly payments.
Who We Are
We participate in the development, preservation, management and/or financing of affordable, program-enriched housing across the country. We acquire and renovate existing housing, as well as develop new affordable rental properties. Kansas City Charity Services is the only national nonprofit in Kansas City that addresses America’s affordable housing crisis from every angle, combining 20 years of experience, numerous local partners and the expertise of over 35 volunteers citywide.
What We Do
All so that people not only make rent, they build futures.
Our Mission
Our programs are designed to provide home ownership within 10 years with affordable monthly payments of $500.00 - $700.00 per month.
To make home and community places of pride, power and belonging, and platforms for resilience and upward mobility for all.
Revitalize the urban core community through strategic planning with various neighborhood community groups.
Our Impact
With this end-to-end approach, 20 years of experience and thousands of local partners, Kansas City Charity Services has built and preserved 250 affordable homes, invested $567 thousand in communities in the urban core of Kansas City and changed lives.
OUR PROGRAMS
Kansas City Charity Services
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Kansas City Charity Services has developed strategies for providing housing economically to low-income families (families which have become dispossessed due to changes in economic conditions). Our programs are designed to provide home ownership within 10 years with monthly payments of $500.00 - $750.00 per month. We will provide completely renovated housing, (updated electrical, updated plumbing, updated Heating and Cooling, new flooring, interior and exterior painting, updated kitchens and bathrooms, etc.). The following requirements are necessary for acceptance into this program.
URBAN CORE COMMUNITY WORKFORCE
The mission of Urban Core Community Workforce is to create a cadre of workforce personnel trained in residential renovation skills through our Urban Core Redevelopment Program. This program utilizes urban core youth and unemployed adults, preferably displaced adult workers preferably veterans, to transform dilapidated, abandoned and neglected property in the urban core into viable low-income/no income housing.
COMMUNITY BLOCK ORCHARD
Can you imagine the vacant lots on your block looking like this?
Can you imagine free fruits, nuts and possibly vegetables replacing vacant,
weed infested and overgrown lots which dot the urban core neighborhoods.
With park benches, a walking path and subdued night lights,
this would be an idea place for neighborhood youth
to experience the thrill of picking fresh apples, peaches, pears, plums.
No more trips to the grocery store for fresh vegetables or fruits.
And the key ingredient is that once the orchard is developed,
it would be owned by the residents of that particular block.
Surrounded on three sides by a privacy fence with camera monitoring
and recording day or night, this could be an ideal place to relax,
read a book or maybe just chill with other block residents after a work week.
If you can believe it, we can achieve it - just takes dedication to desire.
THE INVENTION CENTER
You can change the world with one idea or one invention.
With the right resources, you can!
Ideas require action to make them real - and waiting just gives
someone else the chance to patent or produce the very thing which
you have put aside - to their advantage, not yours.
To produce an idea, to market an idea requires inspiration and dedication,
knowledge and belief and a willingness to go the distance - the difference
between the talkers and the doers.
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