The Wholesale & Specialty Insurance Association is the non-profit association of insurance professionals and specialty market leaders dedicated to the wholesale distribution system. WSIA represents the interests of its members and the valuable role they play in the insurance market through networking, education, talent recruitment and development, regulatory and legislative advocacy for the wholesale, specialty and surplus lines industry, and by promoting the value of the wholesale distribution channel.

The Kansas City Area Development Council is a private, nonprofit organization charged with representing the economic interests of the entire two-state, 18-county region of Greater Kansas City. Mission: Engage the world to invest in the One KC region. Our role: • Attract new companies and talent to the 18-county, two-state KC region. • Enhance awareness of our metro's assets to create positive perceptions. • Promote the KC region as a business and lifestyle location of choice. • Brand the KC region as one product to stimulate economic growth. • Equally support all of our regional communities and investors. • Facilitate relocation/expansion process between a company and its selected KC community.

Founded in 1887, The Builders, a chapter of the AGC, advances the construction industry by delivering safety, craft and management training; employment, labor and government relations; and construction plans and technology tools. The Builders is among the Associated General Contractors of America’s largest chapters, serving member companies throughout the heartland. The nonprofit commercial construction trade association operates four service and training centers in Kansas City, Jefferson City and Springfield to serve with integrity both union and nonunion member companies and to aid collaboration by connecting passionate people and businesses, with a vision of improving lives through construction. Visit The Builders, a chapter of the AGC, online at www.thebuildersagc.com and connect with them on LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

The American Hereford Association is second-largest U.S. beef breed associations with more than 7,000 active adult and junior members. The American Hereford Association is a not-for-profit organization. Along with its subsidiaries, Certified Hereford Beef (CHB) LLC, Hereford Publications Inc. (HPI), and the American Beef Records Association (ABRA), the American Hereford Association provides programs and services for its members and their customers, while promoting the Hereford breed and supporting education, youth and research.

The mission of Ronald McDonald House Charities is to reduce the burden of childhood illness on children and their families. We accomplish this by: ■Creating a caring and uplifting environment ■Providing comfortable lodging convenient to a health facility ■Undertaking resource and fund development activities that support our facilities, programs and services Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City keeps families close to their sick child while they receive the medical care they need. We take care of the families so they can focus on the most important thing - their child's health.

The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce is a membership organization that represents more than 2,200 businesses and their 300,000 employees across 13 counties in the Greater Kansas City region. Our mission is to provide leadership to help business grow and Kansas City prosper, making KC the best place to live, work, start a business, and grow a business. Established in 1887, the Chamber focuses on three key areas that benefit members: growing the region’s economy, advocating businesses’ interests in the public policy arena, and providing innovative programs and resources that help grow our members’ businesses. Our mission is to make Greater Kansas City the best place to live, work, start and grow a business.

AFA creates partnerships that identify, encourage and support outstanding college students and young professionals pursuing careers in the agriculture and food industry. Founded in 1996 by R. Crosby Kemper and other agri-business leaders, AFA offers leader and career development training and community-based academic scholarships for individuals in college pursuing a career in an agriculture-related field. AFA members share the belief that the production, processing and distribution of food and fiber, with support for agriculture business services, are vital for our nation’s economy, both now and in the future. These individuals share three characteristics – they are talented, passionate and committed to a career in agriculture. AFA’s strength comes from its unique partnerships with rural communities, corporations, foundations, colleges, universities, and individuals that support academic development, leader development and career development. This network creates an atmosphere that stimulates the development of professionalism, intrapreneurialism and intellectualism – each a key factor in human capital development.

Women Leaders in Sports is the premier leadership organization that develops, connects, advances, and champions women working in sports. Women Leaders takes a pro-active role in advancing women into positions of influence and powerfully shapes the landscape of women leaders.

Missouri Community Action Network (Missouri CAN) is the statewide association for Missouri's 19 Community Action Agencies, Allies and Supporters united to end poverty. Community Action helps people and changes lives in all 114 Missouri counties and the City of St. Louis. Community Action serves more than 250,000 low-income Missourians annually in each county through local, community-based solutions. As the statewide association, Missouri CAN strengthens the Community Action Network through education, training and advocacy for low-income families they serve. Missouri CAN is a nonpartisan, nongovernmental, nonprofit organization.

Port KC’s mission is to grow the economy of Kansas City's port district through transportation, global commerce and development. Goals: To acquire, own, construct, redevelop, lease, maintain, and conduct land reclamation, residential development, commercial and mixed-use development, industrial parks and facilities and terminals, terminal facilities and any other type of port facility. To promote and expand inland and river port commercial throughput of cargo and freight. To identify and pursue redevelopment opportunities at blighted and historic preservation sites. To redevelop the Downtown Kansas City Riverfront to promote and develop new opportunities for residence, commerce and leisure. To promote the full integration of multi-modal transportation assets to increase commercial opportunities locally, nationally and internationally. Property: Berkley Riverfront, Port of Kansas City, Richards-Gebaur Commerce Park

The Center for Practical Bioethics is a nonprofit, free-standing and independent organization nationally recognized for its work. Since 1984, the Center has helped patients, families, healthcare professionals, policymakers and corporate leaders grapple with ethically complex issues in medicine and research.

 Our mission - to raise and respond to ethical issues in health and healthcare - requires us to be proactive. To call attention to ethical issues and to develop programs, policies and publications that address them and achieve common ground. The results? Reasoned, real-world responses to ethically complex situations and, ultimately, improved health outcomes and peace of mind. 

The Center's work is led by staff representing multiple disciplines and a variety of expertise and supported by a committed Board of Directors. Focus areas in 2021 include: ETHICS EDUCATION & CONSULTATION - Services include: bioethics education for clinicians and students; ethics consultation services in hospitals and health systems, and ethics guidance in response to calls from individuals to policy leaders. We also lead the KC Regional Ethics Committee Consortium, present community lectures and symposia, and publish and archive a Bioethics Library of 4,000 items that receive 750,000 pageviews/year. ADVANCE CARE PLANNING & SERIOUS ILLNESS - The Center helps thousands each year to prepare for the uncertainties of advancing illness and to make their end-of-life wishes known through advance care planning. We are also building coalitions and training providers across Missouri and Kansas in adoption of a form that translates patient goals of care into physician orders that follow the patient. EMERGING ISSUES AND SYSTEMS CHANGE - Current focus areas: Population Health & Deliberative Democracy, Artificial Intelligence, and PAINS-KC.

Our mission is to mobilize our community to equip and empower low-income individuals and families to be self-sustained and independent.