J BLACK FINANCIAL GROUP
John A Black
Founder and CEO|CFP®, CLU®, ChFC®, CASL®
Achieving success by helping you connect what’s on your balance sheet with what’s in your heart.
Lending a hand in my community.
A big part of our culture revolves around giving back to our community. Here are a few of the organizations we support:
Susan R. Black Cancer Foundation
Susan R. Black’s battle with cancer ended September 2019, a legacy of generosity continues in her name. The Susan R. Black DigniCap Memorial Fund was established to enable cancer patients to receive scalp-cooling treatments to help recipients keep their hair during chemotherapy. Preserving one’s hair during cancer treatment helps many patients feel more like themselves during a very stressful and challenging time. It can also boost self-esteem, as well as provide personal privacy, as they choose with whom and when to share their diagnosis.
JDRF – Kansas and Missouri Chapter
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) is the leading global organization funding type 1 diabetes (T1D) research. Our strength lies in our exclusive focus and singular influence on the worldwide effort to end T1D. Vision: A world without type 1 diabetes. Mission: Accelerating life-changing breakthroughs to cure, prevent and treat T1D and its complications.
St. Teresa's Academy
St. Teresa’s Academy educates young women to think critically, encourages them through Catholic values to love the dear neighbor without distinction, and empowers them to change the world.
Don Bosco Centers Kansas City
The Don Bosco Centers have been providing free English classes to adult immigrants and refugees from over 75 countries and vastly differing life situations, who benefited from the English as a Second Language (ESL) Center. Through our partnership with the Independence School District, the ESL program has grown to be the largest in Kansas City region, offering an eight-level English program that teaches vital language and life skills. The center has been helping seniors and adults with disabilities maintain independent living by providing meals, transportation, fellowship and activities that promote health, education, and recreation. Based on Mid-America Regional Council guidelines, the Don Bosco Senior Center is the largest, most comprehensive center in the Greater Kansas City area.
Love Fund for Kids
The Love Fund for Children bridges the gap in youth services by partnering with advocates to fulfill unique, unmet needs of children across Kansas City. The list of needs is long, and the Love Fund for Children is there to help. The organization works directly with youth advocates such as case managers, therapists, counselors and medical care providers.
Church of Nativity Leawood
The Church of the Nativity is a living expression of the Roman Catholic Church which seeks to involve everyone in the life and mission of Jesus Christ by providing spiritual growth and faith formation for its parishioners and outreach to others. Susan and I attend the Church of the Nativity in Leawood. Susan is very involved in PTO, having been that organization's Past-President, as well as Past-President of Mothers of Young Children and Co-Chairperson for the Nativity Parish School Auction.
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer (ALSF)
ALSF funds cancer research, raises awareness, and supports the families of children with cancer. Since 2012, Northwestern Mutual, its employees, and financial professionals like me have donated more than $20 million to support ALSF and fund over 400,000 research hours.
Saint Thomas Aquainas High School
The mission of Saint Thomas Aquinas High School as a Catholic Faith Community is to challenge and nurture young men and women to develop their God-given spiritual, intellectual, social and physical potential, and to help them become life-long learners and responsible citizens guided by Catholic values.
Supporting Kids Foundation
Founded in 2009 by neighbors and friends in Lenexa, Supporting Kids Foundation is dedicated to helping Kansas City area families battling childhood cancer. We want to make sure parents focus on being by their child's side during treatment and not worrying about the bills that pile up at home.
American Heart Association
The American Heart Association is the nation's oldest and largest voluntary organization dedicated to fighting heart disease and stroke. Founded by six cardiologists in 1924, our organization now includes more than 22.5 million volunteers and supporters. We fund innovative research, fight for stronger public health policies, and provide critical tools and information to save and improve lives. Our nationwide organization includes 156 local offices and more than 3,000 employees. We moved our national headquarters from New York to Dallas in 1975 to be more centrally located. The American Stroke Association was created as a division in 1997 to bring together the organization's stroke-related activities.
Operation Breakthrough
Operation Breakthrough is a not-for-profit corporation providing a nurturing and safe environment for children of the working poor that was started in 1971 by Sister Corita Bussanmas and Sister Berta Sailer. The organization responded to the need for quality child care and provided a nurturing and safe environment for children in poverty. Operation has grown and expanded over the years but the vision has always been for all children to have the opportunity to achieve their full potential.
Susan G. Komen Foundation
In 1980, Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan, that she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever. In 1982, that promise became the Susan G. Komen® organization and the beginning of a global movement. What was started with $200 and a shoebox full of potential donor names has now grown into the world's largest nonprofit source of funding for the fight against breast cancer. To date, we've invested more than $2.9 billion in groundbreaking research, community health outreach, advocacy and programs in more than 60 countries. Our efforts helped reduce deaths from breast cancer by 38 percent between 1989-2014 and we won't stop until our promise is fulfilled.
Catholic Charities USA
The mission of Catholic Charities is to provide service to people in need, to advocate for justice in social structures, and to call the entire church and other people of good will to do the same.
United Way
We all have a stake in what befalls our fellow man. We all benefit when a child succeeds in school, when someone finds a job that will help them provide for their family, or when more people are able to access quality, affordable health care.
Down Syndrome Guild
The Down Syndrome Guild of Greater Kansas City is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization whose mission is to provide support and resources for individuals with Down syndrome, their families and the professionals who serve them. DSG seeks to provide the entire community with information and education to broaden awareness and foster positive attitudes regarding people with Down syndrome.
Run for Little Hearts
A local organization that supports hundreds of families in the metro area affected by CHD. They provide funding for an Inpatient Fund at Children's Mercy, care packages for children undergoing open heart surgery, support meetings for parents, and more, including Camp Systole.
National Foundation for Transplants
What began as a local group's desire to help a member of their community, has grown into a nationally recognized enterprise that has generated $82 million in fundraising and support for more than 4,000 transplant patients every year.
Heroes for Hospice
Our mission is to raise awareness and support for Hospice and Palliative Care, specifically benefiting those at Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care and Midland Care Hospice of Topeka and Lawrence. Since the 2011 inaugural race, Heroes for Hospice has raised and donated a net $97,000 to the two hospice houses!
Darol Rodrock Foundation
Over 300 kids and 13 foster care organizations received help through the Darol Rodrock Foundation last year. The Foundation has provided area foster kids personal hygiene items, school supplies, food, transportation, bedding, clothes, dorm room supplies as well as mentoring and emotional support. In addition, over 175 backpack donations were provided.
Restore Kids Camp
Our Mission: Help people find their way back to God, Mobilize Christ followers to change the world, and Reproduce leaders, artists, & churches.
Best Day Foundation
Best Day Foundation is a volunteer organization that helps children and young adults ages 4 -24 with special needs build confidence and self-esteem through safe, fun, adventure activities like surfing, bodyboarding, kayaking, snow sports, and more. Please join us in creating special days for children with Autism, Down syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, blindness, cancer, spinal cord injuries, and other physical and developmental challenges.