Summary

Historic Manheim Park is a diverse urban, community located in central Kansas City. The community has experienced decline over the past four decades but within the past few years, has begun to experience a notable renewal. To continue this momentum, our community was awarded a $20,000 grant by a Kansas City-based organization, the Community Capital Fund to help us organize our community into block teams, sponsor community clean-up and other events such as community gardens. With the grant we also want to capture the talents present in our community so that we can begin to leverage them to further develop our community.

A condition of the community getting the full $20,000 grant requires that we raise a modest 10% or $2000. Your donation of any size helps us take one step closer toward realizing this goal. No donation is too small because every gift helps our community to become more connected, engaged and empowered to take the next steps to accelerate the regeneration. 

What We Need & What You Get

Break it down for folks in more detail:
Our community is sincerely asking for your help to raise $2,000. Our organization is a Missouri nonprofit neighborhood association that relies on the contributions of individuals and organizations to help us promote community involvement and engagement.

The Impact

Organizing our community into block teams will require us to map the 36 six blocks of our community into four teams, identifying block representatives, train the block team leaders on effective ways for engaging members of our community, and sponsor block events that engages members of the entire block team (e.g., community clean-up, meet your neighbor events, block beautification projects). To complete the asset mapping portion of the project, we will be working with Dr. Jake Wagner from our local University of Missouri at Kansas City, Department of Architecture and Planning. Dr. Wagner will develop the asset mapping instrument, train volunteers, walk the entire neighborhood to collect data, analyze data and work with neighborhood leaders to create a comprehensive “asset catalog.”  Our asset catalog will contain information about members of the community who have special skills such as home repair, computer repair, landscaping, etc.

Other Ways You Can Help

If you are unable to give, we still believe you can help. Our community is always looking for volunteers to help us achieve our mission of improving the lives of members of our community. You can reach us at manheimpark@gmail.com to learn how you can volunteer.