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Fifty Years of Experience
Moving as One.

The Way Home's staff and board bring more than 50 years of combined affordable housing experience — and a shared belief that Kansas City can solve this problem in our lifetime.

Who We Are

Born from Kansas City.
Built for Kansas City.

The Way Home is a nonprofit housing corporation focused on accelerating affordable housing solutions through communication, coordination, and capital. A separate 501(c)(3), The Way Home was born out of Community LINC — a nearly 40-year-old Kansas City nonprofit with a rich history of ending homelessness in the city's urban core.

Our team doesn't just work in affordable housing. We've lived it — as clients, as coordinators, as executives, and as community builders. That experience is the foundation everything else is built on.

50+
Combined years of affordable housing experience
40
Years of Community LINC's legacy behind us
$500M
Capital coordination target for the KC metro
7
Leaders unified around one mission
Staff

The Team on the Ground

Day-to-day execution of The Way Home's mission — coordinating capital, partnerships, and programs across the Kansas City metro.

Jarrod Sanderson
Jarrod Sanderson
Chief Executive Officer

Former Executive Director of Neighborhoods of Hope Community Housing and former COO of Pawsperity and Nautical.

Anna White
Anna White
Director of Partnerships

Former Executive Director of The Way Home and Director of Community LINC Housing.

Jacque Hunter
Jacque Hunter
Program Coordinator

Former client of and Program Coordinator for Community LINC and Community LINC Housing.

Board of Directors

Leadership That Opens Doors

Decades of experience across finance, philanthropy, nonprofit leadership, and community service — guiding The Way Home's strategy and governance.

Dan Carroll
Dan Carroll
Board President

Founder and Board Chair of AdPredictive, Co-Founder of the & Company, and former board president of Community LINC.

Precious Stargell Cushman
Precious Stargell Cushman
Board Secretary

Former Chief Executive Officer of Community LINC and former Chief Impact Officer of the United Way of Greater Kansas City.

Tom McDonnell
Tom McDonnell
Board Member

Former President & CEO of DST and former President and CEO of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Fr. Justin Mathews
Fr. Justin Mathews
Board Member

Chief Executive Officer of Reconciliation Services.