73%
Of chronically homeless people in the Kansas City CoC were unsheltered (2025)
15 yrs
Life expectancy gap between the Kansas City zip codes with the highest and lowest life expectancy
Sources: unsheltered rate, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2025 Continuum of Care Homeless Populations and Subpopulations Report, MO-604 Kansas City (MO&KS), Independence, Lee’s Summit/Jackson, Wyandotte Counties CoC, point-in-time count date January 22, 2025, reporting 367 of 504 chronically homeless persons unsheltered. Life expectancy gap, National Equity Atlas, Life Expectancy indicator, which reports a 15.5-year gap between the Kansas City zip codes with the highest and lowest life expectancy. Wealth ratio, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, FEDS Notes, “Greater Wealth, Greater Uncertainty: Changes in Racial Inequality in the Survey of Consumer Finances” (October 18, 2023), reporting 2022 Survey of Consumer Finances median family wealth of $285,000 for White families and $44,900 for Black families, a ratio of about six to one.
The Crisis
Kansas City Is Bleeding
Poverty isn't random. It's engineered.
Decades of redlining, disinvestment, and structural racism created zip codes where dreams go to die. Where life expectancy differs by 15.5 years between the Kansas City zip codes with the highest and lowest life expectancy.
73%
of chronically homeless people counted in the Kansas City Continuum of Care were unsheltered,
367 of 504 people, in HUD’s January 2025 point-in-time count.
This isn't a statistic. This is someone's mother. Someone's son. Someone's neighbor. This is our community.
Our Answer
We Don't Just Give Hope. We Teach Transformation.
The From Struggle to Success Academy is a comprehensive, 8-domain life transformation program, built by someone who escaped poverty and systematized the escape.
29 courses. One mission: Make people believe in themselves.
This Isn't Theory
The Nashes Lived It
Dr. Troy Nash grew up in Section 8 housing in Kansas City. Labeled "at-risk." Told he wasn't college material. Surrounded by drugs and violence.
Today he holds 8 degrees, including an M.P.H. from Brown University. But here's what matters: He went back for his family first.
At 25, he turned his mother's living room into a classroom. He helped his three older brothers enroll in college. He helped his mother, at age 55, earn her GED and start college. She was a junior when she passed away. UMKC awarded her a posthumous degree.
"I didn't escape poverty to leave others behind. I escaped to build a ladder." Dr. Troy Nash, Founder
Your Money at Work
Every Dollar Creates Ripples
Gift amounts describe the approximate cost of program components and are illustrative. Unless you designate otherwise in writing, gifts are unrestricted and are applied where the need is greatest.
$25
Provides course materials for one student for a month
$100
Provides technology access for one Academy participant
$500
One complete domain track (5 courses)
$1,000
Half of one 8-domain transformation journey
2030 Targets
What We Are Building Toward
These are the goals we have set, not results achieved. TNGCF is in its first program year and will publish measured outcomes against these targets in its first annual report.
Projected 3.4:1 Social Return on Investment
Projection from a pre-program model, not measured results. Two of five unit values are sourced; the rest are internal assumptions.
Transparency
We're Accountable to You
The Nash Group Community Foundation, Inc.
501(c)(3) EIN: 36-5158652
50 E. 13th St., Kansas City, MO 64106
info@tngcf.org | (816) 213-4461
Take Action
Don't Just Feel Something. Do Something.
The gap between wanting to help and actually helping is one click.
"Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life." Nelson Mandela, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
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We develop, we advise, and we tell you the truth about which one you need.