For more than 35 years, Kansas City Community Gardens (KCCG) has worked to increase food access, reduce hunger and promote healthy eating by empowering families to grow their own fresh vegetables and fruit. The organization’s work is driven by a simple idea: more than 300,000 people in Kansas City don’t have enough to eat. Beyond that, 1/3 of our urban residents live in neighborhoods where they are more likely to buy their food at a gas station than a grocery…

Helping Kansas City families since 1971, Operation Breakthrough provides a safe, loving and educational environment for children in poverty and empowers their families through advocacy, emergency aid and education. Operation Breakthrough is a nationally accredited, not-for-profit corporation that began in 1971 by Sister Corita Bussanmas and Sister Berta Sailer as a response to requests from parents in the central city for quality child care for children of the working poor. Operation Breakthrough's vision is ALL children have the opportunity to…

Our October event will be at the EGG (Economic Growth Gallery) with the Northeast Kansas City Chamber of Commerce in Historic NorthEast (HNE). Vote Your Main Street at https://www.nationalgeographic.com/voteyourmainstreet/kansas-city/ !!! Considering the building was originally built as a flower shop, a Halloween themed event with a showing of the 1960s movie “Little Shop of Horrors” with a concession stand of popcorn (we have a street vendor type of popcorn machine), old fashion bottles of soda and “embalming fluid” punch, movie-style…

Bar K is a Restaurant, Bar, Coffeehouse & Dog Park. Bar K is a unique and joyful destination featuring a modern bar, restaurant and coffeehouse, constructed out of repurposed shipping containers. They are located on the shore of the Missouri River in beautiful Berkley Riverfront Park, under the Heart of America bridge. They offer a “healthy casual” menu of tasty, affordable food, gourmet coffee, juices and smoothies, and a wide variety of locally brewed beers and craft cocktails in a…

Wake up on the bright side in the fresh new Del Sol prototype, La Quinta by Wyndham Kansas City Beacon Hill.  The new hotel located at 2321 Troost Avenue, Kansas City, MO will operate as a Wyndham franchise, owned by Beacon Hill Hotel Operators, LLC and managed by TGC Hospitality Management of Wichita, Kansas. We are incredibly excited to join the prominent neighborhood of Beacon Hill, said Nick Esterline president and founder of TGC Group. The La Quinta by Wyndham…