(front row, l–r)    

Patrick McCown

McCownGordon Construction (Host)

Mary Kay McPhee

Local Investment Commission

Jan Leonard

UMB Bank

Yvonne Miller

Juvenile Diabetes

Jaclyn Steiner

Greater Kansas City Community Foundation (Host)

Sr. Vickie Perkins

Cristo Rey

Sheridan Wood

Kansas City Free Health Clinic

Laura Norris

YouthFriends 

Brandi Fisher

YWCA

Laura Gray

Community LINC

Peter Yelorda

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City

Jud Alford

The National Kidney Foundation of Kansas and Western Missouri 

(back row, l–r)    

Susan Stanton

United Way of Greater Kansas City

Daniel Doty

City Union Mission

Janice Benjamin

The University of Kansas Hospital

Alice Ellison

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City

Brett Gordon

McCownGordon Construction

Michael Halterman

Catholic Charities of Kansas City–St. Joseph

Sarah Rowland

Community Volunteer

David Renz

University of Missouri–Kansas City

Liz Levin

Cabot Westside Clinic

Mark Litzler

Saint Luke’s Hospital Foundation

Denny Barnett

Citi Cards

Dr. Daniel Purdom

Samuel U. Rodgers Community Health Center

Kala Stroup

American Humanics

Tracy Foster

Philanthropy Community Focuses on Results

“I don’t know of any other community where the people are as giving and caring as they are in Kansas City,” said Pat McCown, by the way of introducing this year’s Ingram’s Philanthropy Industry Outlook.McCown spoke to more than 25 leaders of the philanthropy community gathered at the downtown offices of McCownGordon Construction for a provocative assembly co-sponsored by the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation and McCownGordon. Chairing the meeting were Pat McCown, McCownGordon’s CEO, and Jaclyn Steiner of the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation. This assembly was part of Ingram’s Magazine’s ongoing effort to highlight issues of significance in Kansas City’s greater metropolitan area. “You are the people who are touching the people that are out there,” McCown stated. “I just want to say ‘thank you’ for what you do every day.”

Collaborations

Given the stress on resources, and given the need to be innovative to survive, Jaclyn Steiner asked those assembled what sort of collaborations are going on in the philanthropic community.