KEY PROJECTS & COLLABORATIONS
2023 Toadstrangler Trail (a private-public partnership) opens in late summer
2022 Partnered with City to replace Welcome sign on south side of Rossville
2022 Kick-off to Trail Project with grant award from the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks and local fundraising initiative
2021 Foundation starts annual $1000 scholarship to a Rossville High School senior
2021 $20,000 Grant to Rossville Community Library for renovation
2020 Supported cost of design plans for renovation of restrooms in City park
2020 COVID mini-grants to local organizations & signs in community to support everyone in difficult times
2018 Community calendar project
2017 Collaborated with the City to build Andrick Park and install memorial bricks
2017 Celebrated the 10th Anniversary of the Rossville pool
2015 Disc golf created in the Park
2015 Rossville Community Foundation granted funds to LED Sign on school property off Hwy 24
2014 Rossville Community Foundation granted funds to the Rossville Library for microfilm digitization
2013 City works with Rossville Community Foundation to win Readers Digest $10,000 contest, “We Hear You America,” focused on Main Street
2011 Rossville Community Foundation becomes fiscal agent for Rossville Safe Streets
2011 Rossville Safe Streets receives PSA Grant
2010 Tennis and basketball courts funded through Doug Perine Memorial, completed in 2015
2010 Recycled Tire Grant used to install new park picnic tables
2008 Joe Campbell Memorial Stadium received improvements with a $5,000 Royals Grant
2007 Convened Preschool Early Childhood
- Education that created state model for preschool
2007 Playground Built
- Grant of $75,000 matched with in-kind donations
2004 18-month Civic Leadership Training funded by Kansas Health Foundation
- Spurred the development of four Leadership Rossville Classes and TASMAD
2002 Establishment of Rossville Community Foundation
- Donation of $5,000 for the pool to start the Rossville Community Foundation
- Pool Task Force raised $200,000, secured an additional $200,000, and the City issued an additional bond.
- Pool money was kept separate to ensure usage for the pool