Missouri and Kansas Small Business Number Portraits

461,259 - The number of small businesses in Missouri.

 30,200- The number of minority-owned businesses in Missouri

120,457- The number of women-owned businesses in Missouri

229,776- The number of small businesses in Kansas

14,000- The number of minority-owned businesses in Kansas

59,642- The number of women-owned businesess in Kansas

Source: 2005 Annual Employer Health Benefits Survey released by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research and Educational Trust.

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African American Heritage Month 2006 Springfield, Missouri

African American Heritage Month (Celebrating Community Valuing Diversity) in 2006 in Springfield, Missouri was sponsored by the African American Heritage Committee, African American Studies Committee, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Art and Design Gallery, Association sof Black Collegians, Gospel Choir, Juanita K. Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts, Meyer Library, Multicultural Resource Center (MRC), Music Department, Office of Multicultural Student Services, Phi ALpha Theta Proessional Honor Society, Poet, Staff Senate Public Affairs Committee, Student Activities Council, Truth Lode #151 - Prince Hall and Women’s History Month Committee.

Additional information may be found by accessing the Multicultural Actrivities link at multicultural.missouristate.edu.  If you need special accomodations due to a disability, contact the Office of Multicultural Student Servcies (Carrington Hall 302) three days in advance of the event.

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Kansas City Youth Jazz Band and Leon Brady

Leon Brady’s Kansas City Youth Jazz Band

Walking into the Kansas City Youth Jazz Band studios on a Satruday morning, th eactivity is surprising, the energy level awfully hgih for a Saturday morning, Leon Brady is in the main room, rehearsing a group of middle schoolers.  Brady has the quiet presence, and is able to get a desired result with a glance or a glare.  Read more

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Mamie Hughes - Champion Of Kansas City

She’s a true champion of the community by Steve Penn of the Kansas City Star (Saturday August 19, 2006)   

She fought for those displaced by construction of Bruce R. Watkins Drive. She helped stabilize the historic 18th and Vine Jazz District at a critical juncture. Indeed, Mamie Hughes has worked in many roles to make Kansas City a better place to live. That’s why I was glad to be on hand when she was honored by the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education as the center’s 2006 Community Champion. The reception held recently at the opening of the exhibit “Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936.” From 1986 to 2001, Hughes served as ombudsman for the Bruce Watkins free way project. She’s been a Jackson County legislator as well as a founding member of the Central Exchange. Hughes currently serves as president of the board of directors of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. And she serves on the board of governors for the Midwest Center  for Holocaust Education. In her typically modest fashion, Hughes deflected attention from her and onto the exhibit, which remains open until Dec. 9. “It really is a great honor, and I’m humbled,” Hughes said. “I wake up every morning hoping there’s another day’s worth work waiting on me.  I see this exhibit as a wonderful opportunity to continue this education for the young, the old and all the diversity that we talk about.”

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W.E.B. DuBois Learning Center

Youth Leadership and Development Program

5501 Cleveland Ave, Kansas City, Missouri  64130    (816) 523-3339 phone      (816) 523-5343 fax   www.duboislc.org

Letter Invitation of the 35 celebration of W.E.B. Dubois Learning Center (DLC)

On October 11, 2008, the W.E.B. DuBois Learning Center (DLC) will celebrate 35 years of nonprofit serv ice to the Greater Kansas City Community.  The celebration will be held at the Downtown Convention Center in Kansas City, Missouri and will include dinner, keynote speaker, and live entertainment by the sensational “Bake & the Tender Hearts.”  Special guest speaker for the evening will be Ms. Marva Collins, founder of Westide Preparatory School in Chicago, Illinois.

 Thirty four years ago, WEB Dubois Learning Center accepted the challenge of providing tutorial assistance to a relative small numbe r of students, concentrating on reading, math, science and computer science.  The center effectively identified a problem and worked to solve it.  For more than 34 years we have consistently provided tutorial and educational services to the youth of the community and built a solid reputation of producing academic success.  All services, including technology services, are accomplished through volunteers.  This includes development, instruction, administration and support.  The commitment on the part of volunteers is outstanding with the average volunteer tenure being 10 years — many of the volunteers have been with the program since it’s inception in 1973.

 Community organizations such as W.E.B. Dubois Learning Center must rely on the generosity of business and individuals like you to continue its work and service to the community.  As the W.E.B. Dubois Learning Center approaches this 35th year of achievement in providing quality service, the future is full of hope and promise.  I hope that you will join me an dothers in supporting the DuBois Learning Center by becoming a key supporter for this celebration.  I am confident that you will experience a great evening out while learning more about the center, its mission and accomplishments.

 Please join us in celebrating the W.E.B. Dubois Learning Center’s 35th Anniversary in the Grand Ballroom of the Kansas City Convention on October 11, 2008.  You will be receiving a special invitation regarding this event.  I thank you in advance for your consideration.  if you have specific questions relating to the event, you may contact the W.E. B. DuBois Learning Center directly at 816.523.3339.  You may visit our websites www.duboislc.net or www.duboislc.org. 

Sincerely,

William Grace

Executive Director

“Creating Giant Steps Together

 Executive Committee:

Leon Dixon, Chairman

Vern Glover, Vice Chairman

Phillip Vann, Chief Financial Officer

Lani Charles, Secretary

William Grace, Executive Director

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