Love Fund for Children

Providing goods, services and a variety of assistance and benefits to individual Children through cooperation with approximately 100 different agencies or providers. Program services include clothing, shoes, outerwear, medical equipment, beds, cribs and bedding, assistive technology, hygene items, transportation, therapy and theraputic tools, transportation and educational tools. In 2022, the Love Fund served a total of 10,665 Children. The life essentials emergency assistance program served 571 Children across a wide variety of needs. The average cost to serve a child in this program was 173.93. The top requested needs were in clothing, beds/bedding, and hygiene. Both the annual back to school drive and sack it for santa holiday gift programs maintained increased demand and served a larger number of Children since the onset of the pandemic. The Love Fund provided 8,500 school supply kits to k-12 students throughout the greater Kansas city metro. The holiday gift program served 1,594 teens ages 12-18. Each teen received a large reusable bag filled with essential items like hygiene supplies, socks, and cold weather protection in addition to two gift items (sports balls, board games, arts sets, etc. ).