Diosselyn Tot-Velasquez, an associate relationship manager in the Midwest Region, was named one of four changemakers by BeGreat Together. The organization is highlighting her course on how to replicate some of her youth programming and mural painting, in a series they call DocuCourse, along with her personal story. The video will be released Sept. 18 as part of a celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. 

Diosselyn Tot-Velasquez, an associate relationship manager in the Midwest Region, was named one of four changemakers by BeGreat Together. The organization is highlighting her course on how to replicate some of her youth programming and mural painting, in a series they call DocuCourse, along with her personal story. The video will be released Sept. 18 as part of a celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. 

In 2019, Gloria Ortiz-Fisher, executive director of Westside Housing, was considering new ways to help clients. That's when she learned about a program helping residents establish credit by formally reporting on something they already did each month: Pay rent.

Chef Space, a Community Ventures kitchen incubator, wanted to find a simple way to help the community. They started by collecting food for residents when COVID-19 was at its peak. This summer, once they learned students were going back to school in person, they decided to help them with the supplies they needed for the school year. While backpacks may not have been a necessity last year with kids at home, they are now.

​The cucumbers are ready, dangling on the vines at Splitlog Farm and Orchard, an urban farm that is a partnership between Community Housing of Wyandotte County (CHWC) and KC Healthy Kids. On raised beds, the property produces the cucumbers, tomatoes, strawberries, cherries and more. An apiary is also on site.

The letter was written by hand on lined paper. On those lines – and between them – was gratitude from a tenant trying to rebuild her life after an abusive marriage. She had come to the transitional townhomes at Mennonite Housing Rehabilitation Services, Inc., in Kansas with her three children. But the progress she had made in rebuilding her life seemed to come to a halt when COVID-19 took away her employment.