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Cindy Leyland

VICE PRESIDENT OF DEVELOPMENT

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As Vice President of Development, Cindy leads the Center’s fund development efforts through prospect identification, cultivation and management, special events, and grant writing.

Cindy joined the Center in 2005 as project director for the Kansas City Partnership to Advance Pediatric Palliative Care, the Center-sponsored initiative which helped to organize, strengthen and promote access to the area’s palliative care services for children, their families and health care providers. She also supported the PAINS Project, KC4 Aging in Community, and the Advance Care Planning and Healthy Living Through Faith initiatives.

Previously, Cindy spent five years at Community Action Partnership (CAP) of Greater St. Joseph, an agency dedicated to the elimination of poverty in four northwest Missouri counties, where she oversaw direct emergency service delivery, as well as community organizing projects focused on advocacy and policy development at the local, state and federal levels. She is a graduate of Benedictine College’s Executive MBA program, with emphasis on leadership, entrepreneurship and transformational strategic planning.

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