The Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas (CFSEK) is pleased to announce that the Rita J. Bicknell Women’s Health Fund 2024 grant applications are now open. Women’s Health Fund (WHF) grants are offered to nonprofit organizations throughout Southeast Kansas in support of the WHF mission to improve the health and well-being of women by supporting education, … Continue reading →
We just published the June 2024 edition of The Charitable Connection, our primary newsletter. Here’s what’s included: You may notice that the newsletter has a new, web-exclusive format this month. We hope the new format will be more accessible, easier to read, and easier to share with friends! Finally, don’t forget to join our email … Continue reading →
Note: This guest post about the Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas was written by Gail Deatherage for the April 2023 issue of Circle Conversations, the newsletter of the Rita J. Bicknell Women’s Health Fund. Thank you, Gail, for helping us all learn more about this critical local resource! The Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas stands as a … Continue reading →
The women of the Rita J. Bicknell Women’s Health Fund have been hard at work over the last several weeks preparing for a recent tour of the Irene Ransom Bradley School of Nursing at Pittsburg State University and drafting the first edition of a new quarterly newsletter called Circle Conversations. The first edition of Circle … Continue reading →
Each spring the Rita J. Bicknell Women’s Health Fund (WHF) giving circles meet to review grant requests to fund projects to “improve the health and well-being of women by supporting education, increasing awareness and sharing quality of life opportunities to benefit all women.” As CFSEK celebrates our 20th year of “benefiting the common good and … Continue reading →