Our Guiding Principles
- To perpetuate the philanthropic spirit of the Menorah Medical Center Foundation.
- To be mindful of and act in accordance with the Jewish heritage of our Foundation’s history.
- To maintain flexibility in our purpose in response to changes in healthcare needs and new ways to serve those needs.
Our Background
In 1926 the Jewish Memorial Hospital Association was formed for the purpose of developing a Jewish community-sponsored hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. On September 7, 1931, Menorah Medical Center opened at 50th Street and Rockhill Road in Kansas City, Missouri. The Menorah Medical Center Foundation was formed on August 29, 1957, as a charitable supporting organization to the hospital. In 1996, Menorah Medical Center closed its location in Kansas City, Missouri, and moved to a new hospital facility in Overland Park, Johnson County, Kansas. With the purchase in 2003 of Menorah Medical Center by HCA, a for-profit health care company, the Menorah Medical Center Foundation concluded its affiliation with Menorah Medical Center, changed its name to Menorah Legacy Foundation and became an independent, charitable foundation. The Foundation revised its mission from supporting Menorah Medical Center to impacting healthcare and healthcare-related services within the Greater Kansas City Metropolitan Area. In 2009, the Menorah Legacy Foundation board of directors determined that it would allocate 30% of the Foundation's grantable resources to supporting those programs, services or institutions that successfully meet the healthy for life funding category criteria.
"We have never relied for guidance solely on the past, nor shall we ever rest on the present. Creativity and the courage to pioneer have kept us facing the future since the beginning."
- Arthur Mag, Former President of Menorah's Board of Directors, 1975
Our Mission
The primary mission of the Foundation is to support programs that foster the delivery, quality, or affordability of healthcare or healthcare-related social services, i.e. services that promote physical or mental health in the Jewish community. Our secondary mission is to support human and social services that may be unrelated to healthcare but that foster or maintain a vibrant Jewish community. In the Greater Kansas City Community, our mission is to support programs that proactively improve health and wellness by fostering transformational change in individual or community behaviors.
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