Free help filing your taxes will be available at selected schools and neighborhood centers or file online at MyFreeTaxes.com 

LINC Commissioner Coauthors Book SuEllen Fried and Blanche Sosland bring their combined experiences together to present a blueprint to reduce the pain, rage, and revenge cycle of bullying.

LINC is working with the US Census Bureau to provide community locations where individuals can apply for census jobs and take the required test.

Mayor Mark Funkhouser holds the first tele-town hall meeting to discuss his Schools First initiative.

Kansas City mayor Mark Funkhouser shared a broad vision of a stronger more intentional partnership between the city government and the school neighborhoods throughout the city.

Community Mediation Center Works LINC has worked closely the the Community Mediation Center to address conflicts and issues in schools and neighbors. The 10 year old organization offers a wide variety of services to faith based, schools, neighborhoods and businesses.

Everett Earl Wright, who began working with the HomeSharing program as a student intern shortly after it was founded in 1982, died Dec. 16, 2009, at his home in Kansas City, Mo. He was 62. In 2008, HomeSharing became a LINC initiative.

A new public safety-net health clinic will be developed in south Kansas City, Mo. to provide affordable and accessible care to meet growing need.

Nick Haines, executive producer of news and public affairs programming at KCPT, moderates a panel discussion on neighborhoods and how they can weather the foreclosure crisis, Wednesday, November 11, at 6:30 p.m. in the Truman Forum auditorium of the Plaza branch, 4801 Main Street.

LINC has produced an informative booklet "Tips on Getting Safely to School" that covers tips for children who walk, take the bus or ride to school.

The LINC Commission heard presentations on the extent and impact of foreclosures in the Kansas City area and considering what it and the community can do to address the impact on families and neighborhoods.

The foreclosure crisis and the economic downturn is creating new homeless families in the Kansas City area.

LINC will offer its Caring Communities Before and After School Program in 17 Kansas City, Mo. School District schools this fall.

For the third year, LINC held a summer chess camp.

There is hope for urban education when the community is involved.

Those needing to make choices about health insurance and others seeking a better understanding of some important health care system terms can get answers from a new Health Care System Glossary prepared by LINC staff.

The Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City awarded a $60,000 grant to research the feasibility of a primary care clinic within the Center School District for underserved residents of south Kansas City.

Family and Youth Festival Southeast Neighborhoods Caring Communities and Missouri Job Corps present a Family and Youth Festival.

The Kansas City, Mo. Public Health Department is sharing information on what parents, children and the community can do to be aware of swine flu.

All too often, workers become unemployed through no fault of their own and may be eligible for unemployment benefits but finding getting information or filing a claim confusing or difficult. Learn now to file claims online or through an automated phone system.

NPR features KC juvenvile facility The innovative work of Missouri Division of Youth Services is featured in a Oct. 30th story on National Public Radio show "All Things Considered." The story says Missouri sees "teens offenders as kids, not inmates." The radio feature, first of a

Fort Osage LINC Caring Communities site coordinators are being recognized for their work in their respective schools.

Two special February events will focus community attention on the growing foreclosure issues in the Kansas City region.

The work of the West Central Area Health Education Center (AHEC) was highlighted in a Nov. 7th story in the Kansas City Business Journal. AHEC is colocated in LINC's offices and works closely with LINC on health related initiatives.

LINC Founder Bert Berkley is co-author of a book, Giving Back: Connecting You, Business and Community, now available.