Case Studies
F.U.N.K.Y.
In 2006, a group of young professionals with connections to the Kansas City area gathered in New York City to find a way to collectively give back to the Kansas City community. The group, since named Flatland Urban Network by KC Yankees (F.U.N.K.Y.), decided that it would host bi-annual events to benefit nonprofit organizations addressing areas of need in the Greater Kansas City community. Greater Horizons administers the F.U.N.K.Y. Fund.
Currently F.U.N.K.Y. consists of eighteen board members living in New York City and representing the greater Kansas City area. It members are proud to be alumni of the following high schools: Notre Dame de Sion, Pembroke Hill School, Rockhurst High School, Shawnee Mission East, St. Teresa’s Academy, and St. Thomas Aquinas.
Payless Gives Shoes 4 Kids
The Payless Gives Shoes 4 Kids program is a grassroots effort aimed at giving more than $1.2 million in free shoes to children of families in need during the holiday season. Payless ShoeSource initiated the Payless Gives Shoes 4 Kids program in 2008 in response to the economic crisis, its impact on the underprivileged, the significant need across the United States for children's shoes, and to support smaller, localized nonprofits with a tool to assist them in helping those in need during the holidays.
The company launched the application phase for the Payless Gives Shoes 4 Kids program with a call-to-action to the non-profit community to apply to be Payless partners in the shoe-gifting campaign to build a network of hundreds of localized organizations across the Western Hemisphere. This grassroots approach is critical for immediate, direct access to kids in need at the holidays. In a 21-day application period, the retailer received nearly 3,000 applicants at its application Web site www.paylessgives.com and inquiries from nearly 37,000 visitors representing 109 countries across the globe. Greater Horizons served as the independent third-party to manage the bulk of the selection process, based on Payless' core selection criteria, for the Payless Gives Shoes 4 Kids charity partners.
Back in the Swing Retail Therapy
Back in the Swing was launched in 2000 to shine a light on post-treatment care from the breast cancer survivor’s point of view.
Today, Back in the Swing is the first and only national, grassroots nonprofit organization exclusively dedicated to providing awareness, access and financial support for multi-disciplinary, personalized, post-treatment clinical and supportive healthcare, and academic medical research in the field of breast cancer survivorship.
The Back in the Swing USA Fund is administered by Greater Horizons, which allows the Back in the Swing team to spend more time focusing on making breast cancer survivorship clinical care the expectation, not the exception. With the help of their dedicated supporters, volunteers, corporate partners and medical collaborators, the Back in the Swing team is passionately pursuing their heartfelt goals of improving and protecting everyone’s joyful, healthy proactive living after breast cancer. For more information about Back in the Swing’s initiatives, visit www.backintheswing.org.
“After breast cancer treatment ends, everyone asks the same questions: NOW WHAT? Now what do I do to stay as healthy as possible? What should I eat? What exercises should I do? How do I strengthen my immune system? How do I get my mind, body and spirit back in the swing of life?” – Barbara Unell, Founder of Back in the Swing