Founding Community Partners
KCFAA honors its Founding Community Partners - individuals, social and civic groups, corporations, foundations and government offices who played an integral role in the creation of the organization in 1984.
ALVIN AILEY , Founder of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Alpha Kappa Alpha-Mu Omega Chapter
Alpha Kappa Alpha-Beta Omega Chapter
American Business Communications
Elbert Anderson
Louise and Karl Arterbery
Arts Council of Greater Kansas City
Association of Professional Black Firefighters
AT&T
Melanie Bailey
Bank of American (formerly Boatmen’s Bank)
Alice and Rev. Jimmy Banks
Hon. Kay Waldo Barnes
Linda and Roy Bash
Toni and Leslie Becker
Angela Bennett
Anne Bennett
Black Community Fund
Todd Bolender
Paige Branton
Bunni and Paul Copaken
Custom Engineering, Inc.
Russell Davis
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
Joan and George Dillon
Douglass National Bank
Robert Dustman
Jody Edgerton
Michael E. Fisher
Folly Theater
Laura and Bill Frick
Ollie W. Gates, Sr.
Samella Gates
Gates & Sons BBQ
Gentlemen of Distinction
Allan S. Gray
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
Ingrid Gates Hadley
Hall Family Foundation
Richard Harriman
Doris and Elbert Harris
Harry Wilson Loose Trust
Hayward’s Pit Bar-B-Q
James Heeter
Gloria Hickok
Sally Hilkene
Sharon and John Hoffman
Hoyt Companies
Mamie Hughes
J.C. Nichols Company/Highwoods
J.E. Dunn Construction Co.
Junior League of Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City Ballet
Kansas City Call
Kansas City Equity Partners
Kansas City Jazz Festival Committee
Kansas City Missouri City Council
Kansas City Missouri Parks and Recreation
Kansas City Missouri School District
Kansas City Power & Light
Kansas City Star
Kansas City Tomorrow
Kansas City, Missouri School District
Kaw Valley Arts & Humanities
Patt Judd
Marianne M. Kilroy
Jennifer Knowles
Jan Kreamer
Mary Leigh Krull
Lisa Leonard
LINKS, Inc. -Greater Kansas City Chapter
LINKS, Inc. -Jackson County Chapter
Deborah K. Maddox
Tensy Marcos
MBI Corporation
Ted McCarter
C. Stephen Metzler
Mid America Arts Alliance
Missouri Arts Council
Mobil Foundation, Inc.
Henry Moran
Barbara and John Moriarty
National Endowment for the Arts
NGT Associates
Ann Nichols
Jeannette Nichols
N.W. Dible Foundation
Suzetta Parks
Barbara Pendleton
Victor Poirier
Elaine and Norman Polsky
Ronald A. Posey
Powell Family Foundation
Harmon True Pruitt
Leonard Pryor
Page Branton Reed
William Reisler
Research Medical Center
Jim Rice
Joan and Jerry Riffel
Leonard and Beverly Rose
David Ross
Judy Sirridge
Smith Sisters Dance Studio
Southwestern Bell
Hattie and Hayward Spears
Carrie Stapleton
JoAnn Stultz
Susie Brown's Body Trends
Monroe Taliaferro
Linda and Tom Talbott
Katherine Potter Thompson
Nancy Trager
Sharon Turner and Marlon Buie
Roselle and Roy Tyner
Urban League of Greater Kansas City
Madelyn Voigts
Gary Weinberg
Mike T. White, Esq.
William Jewell Fine Arts Program
John Wood