Community Organizations

The AIDS Council of Greater Kansas City served as a catalyst for the community response to the HIV crisis in metropolitan Kansas City for more than 18 years. Services included public policy advocacy, coalition building, a speakers bureau and a center for networking between AIDS Service Organizations. Due to funding cuts, the Board of Directors decided to close the AIDS Council in mid-2005 . The Board of directors of Southwest Boulevard Family Health Care recognized the significant work that was being done for the community through the AIDS Council and invited J. Dollie Rainey, the Program Manager at the AIDS Council, to continue to provide the advocacy, information and networking services through a new AIDS INFORMATION CENTER (AIDS Information-KC.) The AIDS Information-KC has established an advisory committee made up of volunteers from each of the major AIDS Service providers in KC. The goals of the AIDS Information Center are: 1) To provide information about AIDS services in the KC metropolitan area. 2) To provide a point of contact for people who need advocacy within the HIV/AIDS systems. 3) To maintain a network of communication with the ASO's and with the community about events and important changes in services.

We are a community of diverse beliefs united by our Unitarian Universalist faith and our common desire to make this world a better place. With historical roots in the Jewish and Christian traditions, Unitarian Universalism includes atheists, agnostics and theists; humanists, Christians and Buddhists, and followers of the earth-centered traditions. We keep an open mind to the religious questions people have struggled with in all times and places. We believe that personal experience, conscience and reason should be the final authorities in religion, and that in the end religious authority lies not in one book or one person or institution, but in ourselves. Office Hours: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Weekdays. Building Hours: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Sunday Services: Early service is from 8:45 to 9:45; the late service is from 11:15 to 12:15. From early June thru early August we hold only our 11:15 service with Religious Odysseys at 10:00a.m.

Beak n Wings,™ Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization dedicated to the health and welfare of exotic birds. We provide rescue, adoption, sanctuary and placement assistance for all exotic birds. We are the largest bird club in the Kansas City Metropolitan area with over 350 members. Beak n Wings™ began as an educational pet bird club, which has evolved into an Exotic Bird Rescue Group. We continue to educate as well as take in exotic birds which need a new forever home. Beak n Wings™ began in 1999, and is still going strong.

Camp Fire USA Heartland Council, a United Way agency, began in 1913 as the first regional Camp Fire council in the United States, Camp Fire USA challenges parents and youth to build character, adopt strong values, develop positive life skills and exercise responsibility to family and community. Council services include a wide variety of outdoor and group education programs: Camp Fire clubs, residential and day camps, outdoor education, training in volunteerism and community service, inner city after-school programs, and physical fitness/life skills education for children with special needs.

The Lesbian & Gay Community Center of Kansas City ("The Center") is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1992. The Center's mission is to provide referral services and information, networking opportunities, and access to other GLBT supportive groups and businesses in an efficient and cost-effective manner. In 2008, the Center capitalized on the "COM" in the modern-day GLBT COMmunity, and began serving its members with revamped website and strategic plan. Yes, the bricks-and-mortar of yesteryear's community center are long gone. Today, the Center achieves its mission by: * Maintaining an accurate, up-to-date calendar about events and activities relevant to the GLBT community; * Sending weekly emails to its member database about opportunities to get involved in the GLBT community; * Providing a comprehensive on-line resource directory that includes GLBT supportive businesses and organizations; * Manning a hot line (816-931-4420) and information email (info@lgcckc.org) to answer questions about Kansas City's vibrant GLBT community and resources * Organizing family-friendly GLBT community events, such as the annual Picnic at Swope Park in May and Out In Westport festival every October. * Coordinating regular meetings with leaders of GLBT organizations to facilitate cohesion and networking; * Co-sponsoring events with local GLBT organizations, ranging from town halls with the mayor to social gatherings at local bars or restaurants * Assisting with locating meeting space for GLBT organizations.

We provide free and confidential telephone and email peer-counseling, information and local resources for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, youth and questioning callers of the allied community. We refer callers to other agencies in the community as part of our mission. Gay Switchboard is a non-profit, tax exempt organization that is dedicated to meeting the needs of the gay,lesbian, bisexual, transgender, youth and those questioning their sexual orientation and gender community. Gay Switchboard was created as part of Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Youth Crisis Hotline of KS & MO by assisting the Kansas and Missouri community or those planning to visit in the future while the hotline helps those in distress in some fashion. The Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Youth Crisis Hotline of KS & MO helps members of our community talk about the important issues that they are facing in their daily lives. We help end the isolation that many people feel, by providing a safe environment on the phone or email to discuss issues that people cannot talk about anywhere else. We speak with callers of all ages about coming-out issues, relationship concerns, HIV/AIDS anxiety, safer-sex information,sexual assault, domestic violence, rape, hate crimes and other issues. We speak with both youth and adults from 8 PM to 4 AM seven days a week and all services are free and confidential. GLBTY Hotline number is (816) 293-7000 & Gay Switchboard number is (816) 293-7999. Non-staffed hours (4am to 8pm) are serviced by a voicemail system and we respond to emails 24 hours a day at gayswitchboard@aol.com.

We are a Skilled Nursing Facility providing care to HIV-positive residents who are 18 years of age or older. Our facility doesn't treat HIV & AIDS like a terminal disease. A trained staff of medical professionals has years of experience treating this illness. At Hope we create an environment that is more like home than an institution. We're a non-profit, and our small size allows more individual attention, more smiles, and much more hope. Hope Care Center is unique - there are only a few centers in the United States that provide the same service we offer. The responsibility is huge, but we're up for it. In just over a decade we've served over 200 residents and have dreams of expanding so we can serve more people. We're continuing to learn, to provide the best care, and to get our residents well and on their own.

The Kansas City Cave Bears was founded in 1994 as a means to promote friendship and camaraderie for Bears, Cubs, Otters, and their admirers, as well as to provide an organized group to aid in the raising of funds for charitable purposes. ~~~~ Championing fellowship, the KCCB provides social opportunities outside of the traditional gay setting of the bars and clubs for those men that may not be "appreciated" in traditional gay outlets which require a certain look or attitude. -- The KCCB is a not-for-profit corporation in the State of Missouri. Volunteers coordinate our activities with input from monthly gatherings. -- KCCB is not a sex club. It's just a group of bearish men and admirers having fun. Most KCCB events are strictly social in nature and are open for anyone to attend.

The Kansas City Free Health Clinic is an integral part, the net under the safety net, of the health care delivery system in the Kansas City community. As it was formed to do in 1971, the Clinic provides basic health care services at no charge to people who cannot pay for care and to those who do not have insurance available to them. The Clinic helps keep the uninsured and underinsured healthy!

The Kansas City Free Health Clinic is an integral part, the net under the safety net, of the health care delivery system in the Kansas City community. As it was formed to do in 1971, the Clinic provides basic health care services at no charge to people who cannot pay for care and to those who do not have insurance available to them. The Clinic helps keep the uninsured and underinsured healthy!

Lesbian Cancer Project through Spirit of Hope MCC Providing free mammograms to lesbians and their community. Come join us & make a difference. We need volunteers to help us grow.

The Missouri Libertarian Party is one of three established political parties in the State of Missouri as defined by the Missouri Revised Statutes, the other two being the Democratic and Republican parties. As an established party the Missouri Libertarian Party can participate in Primary elections and place candidates on the ballot without having to complete a ballot petition.

Passages is the only Youth program in Kansas City, solely dedicated to helping young lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth in the coming to terms and potentially even coming out. Meeting Address: 620 E Armour Blvd Kansas City, MO 64109. Through weekly educational programs and activities, Passages creates social support networks that nurture and develop healthy and empowered LGBT youth. These programs form a foundation of vital resources that provide these youth with alternatives to risk-taking behavior. The diversity of our staff, volunteers and board of directors have enabled us to grow and expand services over the past 18 months. Community ties and interaction with supportive organizations along with straight and LGBT Allies, has provided Passages guidance, strength and foundational principles providing motivation instrumental in our expansion.

PFLAG-KC general meetings are held on the second Sunday of each month at 3:00 pm at The Village Presbyterian Church, 6641 Mission Road, Room 307, Prairie Village, KS.

PROMO (Personal Rights of Missourians) is Missouri's statewide organization advocating for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equality through legislative action, electoral politics, grassroots organizing, and community education.

We are a growing church community - almost 1000 members strong - young and old, single and married, lifelong Presbyterians and newcomers alike. We are a people who cherish the truth that God's invitation is extended to all. We extend an invitation to you to worship with us at Second Presbyterian. We hope you, too, will discover God's love, and know that you have a place here and a part to play in God's Kingdom. Our purpose is... to Gather to celebrate God's love to Grow in the knowledge and love of God to Go and serve Christ in our city and beyond.

The Straight Spouse Network (SSN) is an international organization that provides personal, confidential support and information to heterosexual spouses/partners, current or former, of gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender mates and mixed-orientation couples for constructively resolving coming-out problems. SSN also offers research-based information about spouse, couple, and family issues and resources to other family members, professionals, community organizations, and the public. SSN is the only support network of its kind in the world. As outreach, the network offers information about spouse and family issues, mixed orientation marriages and spouse resources to professionals, community organizations and the media.

A non-profit 501C3, all volunteer group dedicated to helping homeless pets in the Greater Kansas City area. Our organization is the result of an alliance between several rescuers in the Kansas City region who share the same goal of ending animal suffering and homelessness.