Mentees

Founded in 2007, Assel Grant Services has extensive experience in developing grant proposals in the fields of education, healthcare, human services, and the arts. These proposals address needs such as project funding, operating funds, capacity building, and capital campaigns. As a firm, we have broad experience developing proposals to the federal government, state governments, and corporations, as well as local, state, and national private foundations. We have written over $80 million in awarded proposals in the last five years alone, and over $182 million since 2007. Assel Grant Services provides a continuum of grant project management, from assessing organizational capacity for grant-seeking to submitting the final report. We meet with each client to develop a customized scope of work. This work can be changed as needed after evaluating the progress on a monthly and annual basis. We are exclusively a grants-focused firm offering training; prospect research and grant calendar development; program and evaluation development; case statement writing, editing, and refreshing; foundation, corporate, and government grant writing; and grant reporting.

For over 10 years, Hometown has provided construction restoration & outdoor property management services to Municipal, Commercial and Residential properties.

Leigh & O’Kane is a thirty-four-year-old, certified DBE, Kansas City-based structural engineering firm with a broad background in the design of bridges, buildings, and municipal infrastructure. The firm also offers special inspections capabilities to help ensure construction quality matches the designer’s intent and owner’s expectations.

Major Painting is a commercial painting contractor that specializes in interior and exterior repaints for local building owners, property and facility managers. While Major Paintings specializes in repaints, they also offer carpentry, caulking and waterproofing, and tenant finish services.

At Freedom, our goal is to bring your vision to reality through workplace design: we orchestrate vision, design and execution to create tailored workspace solutions that are right for your needs. We take the time to understand your needs and design work environments with a focus on the user experience. We then maximize our technology resources to share our solutions through our immersive and collaborative Live Design process.

Evolve is a premade meal delivery company with the tag line “Healthy premade meals to save you time.” We primarily focus on the healthy eating lifestyles such as Paleo, Keto, Whole 30 and AIP.

DSG is a full-line wholesale distributor of cleaning equipment and supplies. Our company is one of the oldest Hotsy pressure washer distributors in the country. We also represent Cuda parts washers, Jenfab Cleaning Solutions, Steamericas and Karcher Floor Care. We provide sales, service, parts, accessories, detergents, rentals and financing.

HJM Architects, an MBE certified enterprise, has focused on providing insight and leadership in planning and architectural design services since its inception in 1984. Our mission is to create spaces with meaning, to design structures that are affordable, and create efficient plans that are flexible.

As a small, family business, Patrick's Heating & Cooling Supply has provided stellar customer service as Kansas City's wholesale distributor of commercial and residential heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) supplies and equipment since 2005. Not only do we offer quality in-store services, we also provide online orders to customers across the United States. Our experienced team is committed to delivering our services and products to customers accurately, on time, and at the best value.

Reliable Caps, LLC is manufacturer of plastic threaded closures (“plastic lids”). We provide closures for a variety of industries including but not limited to household products, food, spices, agricultural, beverage, automotive and sport bottle markets.

RedesignKC is a full service general contractor offering comprehensive design-build services for residential and commercial clients​.

We install, service and maintenance Coca-Cola fountain equipment, Ice machines and other small commercial appliances.

Directory Marketing, Inc. and Digital Marketing Inc., known as DMI, together are an online, print and mobile marketing agency. Directory Marketing, Inc. was founded in 1998 as a national yellow pages sales and marketing agency to represent yellow pages publishers to ad agencies who represent national advertisers. The first 13 years was focused on growing our market share of the directory publishing industry through differentiating ourselves from the competition through aggressive marketing resulting in significant increases in national revenue for our directory publishers. Digital Marketing Inc. was created in 2011 to establish a digital presence to support directory publishers as they began to transition their business to include digital services for their small business customers. Our relationship with directory publishers was tied entirely to and dependent upon print yellow pages up to this point and I wanted to diversify our business and find a way to add new services to our existing client base. If we hadn’t transitioned our business to include turnkey digital marketing fulfillment for directory publishers, our business today would be approximately 25% of what it was in 2008 when the decline began to happen in the yellow pages. As a result of our transition, we now also offer digital fulfillment services wholesale to media companies, consultants and ad agencies too and have many direct digital services clients in the Kansas City area as well.

Evolytics is evolving analytics by inspiring people to use data in ways that make a difference in the world. With a focus on optimizing brand experiences and strengthening business profitability, Evolytics engineers best-in-class digital measurement programs for some of the most respected and recognized brands in the world including Intuit, Kroger and Vail Resorts. Evolytics capabilities span the data lifecycle and include: • Analytics Strategy • Digital Measurement Framework and Process Development • Data Audits • Analytics Implementation and Tag Management Deployment • Data Engineering • Data Visualization • Reporting and Analysis • Predictive Analytics • A/B and Multivariate Testing • Customized Training Evolytics was named 2018 Top Analytics Agency by the Digital Analytics Association.