Needs Assessment Report: 2,000 women and girls identify their priority concerns: self-esteem and access to health care.

Photo: Karen Herman, Founding President and Susan Asjes, First Executive Director

Endowment reaches $1 million and five grants totally $20,000 are awarded. Pictured: A Celebration of Women debuted, celebrating 191 women and girls.

Endowment reaches $1.8 million. Pictured: Board of Directors.

1,600 Charter Investors completed The Charter Investor Campaign, raising $3 million.

Over $182,000 was awarded in 38 grants to local organizations in the first five years.

Pictured: Charter Investors Photo outside of Patty Garney’s home.

InvesTours offered donors a firsthand look at agencies in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Pictured: donors on InvesTour bus.

The Beth K. Smith Fund was created to fund research that identifies and measures factors affecting women and girls in Kansas City.

“Take a Girl to the Game” debuts with 600 participants. Pictured: program participants.

The Rachel Alexandra Girls Grant Project was established. Twenty-two teenage girls award their first five grants, totaling $10,500.

The Campaign for Change 2000 raised endowment dollars and trained hundreds of women to get comfortable with philanthropy.

Pictured: first Rachel Alexandra Girls Grant team.

The Campaign for Change is completed with $3.4 million raised or pledged. Total endowment reaches $6.4 million with 2,022 investors.

The First Annual HERizon Golf Classic Premiers at Hillcrest Country Club.

Pictured: first five presidents.

Foundation celebrates in 10th Anniversary year with a celebration.

The 360 Degrees of Giving initiative launched as the first giving circle for the foundation.

Key initiatives included the 5th Annual Women’s Golf Classic, 12th Annual Grants Awards Luncheon and A Celebration of Women book.

Pictured: founding Executive Director Susan Asjes retired and Dawn Oliver is hired as new Executive Director.

Women’s Assembly merges into The Women’s Foundation for the purpose of growing outreach and dialogue on key issues facing women and girls.

Kansas City V.I.P.s (Voices in Philanthropy for Women and Girls) launched. 100 charter members commit $1,000 a year for three years for general operations

Pictured: Charter V.I.P.s

WFGKC established The Karen Herman Advocate for Women and Girls Award to honoring their first President and first recipient Karen Herman.

The Research Committee begins replicating the 1992 “Women in the Heart of America: Concerns, Needs and Priorities Issues,” a historic benchmark study commissioned by The Women’s Foundation.

Pictured: supporters celebrating Karen Herman.

The “Voices From the Heart of America: Concerns, Needs and Priority Issues” study is completed and results are presented to the community.

WFGKC grants reflect new focus from research study on economic self-sufficiency for women and girls.

Pictured: Community Forum.

Social media becomes an integral part in The Foundation’s communication strategies.

A candidate forum is hosted with Operation Breakthrough and Partnership for Children.

Pictured: the second year of Making Cents in the City serves over 100 girls.

Women’s Foundation awards $367,010, the largest amount to date, to 31 local organizations for 35 programs.

The Karen Herman Advocate for Women and Girls Award is presented to Angela Curry who joins past recipients Karen Herman, Mai Gray and Jarene Stanford.

Pictured: Mai Gray receives Karen Herman Advocate for Women and Girls Award.