WE DID IT
#CHIEFSKINGDOM
but we still need your RTs!
Travis Kelce is back in first place for the Walter Payton Man of the Year Social Competition!
There's still one week left in the competition so keep voting! Every RT is another vote for
@tkelce
#WPMOYChallenge
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Alright
#ChiefsKingdom
! You helped bump
@tkelce
from third to second place in the Walter Payton Man of the Year Social Challenge.. now let's get him back in FIRST PLACE!
RETWEET THIS TO GET HIM MORE POINTS!
#WPMOYChallenge
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🔥New Favorite Podcast Unlocked 🔥
Get ready to draft a healthier lifestyle with 'Stories with Papa'! Hosted by Ed Kelce 🎙️Created by Ignition Lab students!
First up?
@BernieKosarQB
shares his playbook for health on and off the field. Stay tuned for more...
@johnkosich
Our Founder Sister Berta passed away peacefully in her sleep this morning. She was an incredible community leader and has personally impacted thousands of children and families in Kansas City over the past 50 years...
Thank you to Kylie Kelce for having some of our students out for a Stick with KC field hockey clinic! You are inspiring the next generation of female athletes and teaching some important lessons about team work and having fun ☀🏑
HEY
#ChiefsKingdom
! We need your help!
Our bud
@tkelce
dropped from first to third place this week in the Walter Payton Man of the Year Social Competition! 😥
RETWEET THIS TO GET HIM MORE POINTS!
#WPMOYChallenge
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WOW! Thank you
@tkelce
from the bottom of our hearts for covering these emergency meal bags for all of our families in the next few months so we can focus on helping with other needs that come up in these uncertain times.
@87Running
We are thrilled to be selected as one of the 100 Impact Projects as part of
@Lowes
#100Hometowns
100th year! Our new Ignition Lab, powered by
@tkelce
’s
@87Running
, will be outfitted w/ equipment from the
#100Hometowns
initiative! THANK YOU!
There are countless special stories of how Sister Berta has changed many lives over the years as she was lovingly referred to as the “Mother Teresa of Kansas City.”
To see Sister Berta’s obituary please visit our website:
"Our actions are our prayers," - Sister Corita Bussanmas, 1933-2021
Sister Corita Bussanmas, a determined servant of God who often let her actions do the talking, passed peacefully away on March 27 at home with her family. She was 87.
You know what they say... breakfast is the most important meal of the day! Especially for the more than 700 kids who enter the doors of OB every weekday. Thank you
@KodiakCakes
@87Running
for supporting our kiddos with this partnership!
Chiefs’ TE Travis Kelce and Kodiak brand have come together to donate 25,000 meals to the children of Kansas City. Through Operation Breakthrough, an afterschool program for under-resourced youth, hundreds of families will receive hot breakfasts, via Kelce and Kodiak.
ONE MORE SLEEP & one more day to get your votes in for
@tkelce
in the Walter Payton Man of the Year Social Challenge!
Contest ends Jan 17th!
RETWEET = VOTES
#WPMOYChallenge
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#CHIEFSKINGDOM
1...2..3! Our friend
@nick3lopez
is helping our preschool students with their counting skills!
Congrats from all of us at Operation Breakthrough for having 3 consecutive games with 3 hits! We love cheering you on!
GO CHIEFS! Wishing
@tkelce
a great game & MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!! You can still pledge -at - every catch Travis makes brings opportunities to our kids! Travis is MATCHING every pledge! Congrats to Patrick Johnson, WINNER of VIP tickets to the game!
We're cheering on our friend
@LindseyHoran
and the US Women's National Team (
@USWNT
) as they compete in the Olympics! Former OB student and current OB Intern Semahj first met Lindsey when she was chosen as the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team's SheBelieves Hero winner in 2020!
Sister Berta and Sister Corita started Operation Breakthrough because mothers in our neighborhood needed someone to take care of their children while they worked.
87 is always a winner in our book! Thank you
@tkelce
for all you do for our kiddos!
We are SO proud you were the
@Chiefs
Walter Payton Man of the Year nominee & can't wait for the exciting things to come with the new Ignition Lab powered by
@87Running
Feeling EXTRA LOVED today with all our new social media friends! 🥰
Operation Breakthrough surrounds 700 of Kansas City's most vulnerable children and their families with opportunities – to learn, connect, be nurtured and prepare for success.
Check out this article interviewing one of our Ignition Lab students, Semahj, speaking about her experience in the labs and getting to know Travis ☀️🫶⚡️
☀ Operation Breakthrough went to the Super Bowl! ☀
HUGE shoutout to our friend
@Wshields68
for highlighting Operation Breakthrough on the biggest stage!
Our Ignition Lab Students helped
@CharlieHustleCo
designers create the shirt!
ORDER A SHIRT:
The 4th Annual Travis Kelce Celebrity Challenge was STACKED this year with the best celebrity team captains 🥳🙌⚡️ Thank you all for being such great supporters of our Ignition Lab and OB kiddos.
A shout out to all of our sponsors who made this event possible and all participants
From the runway to the Ignition Lab, powered by
@87Running
, Destiny and Maliyah continue to grow both their friendship with
@tkelce
and the potential they've always had inside! NOW THAT'S A WIN/WIN!
Record number of preschoolers graduate to kindergarten
Wearing sunshine-yellow robes, 180 five-year olds graduated from our early learning program this year – our biggest class ever.
Jalia and her classmates are converting a '69 Chevelle into an electric car in OB's Ignition Lab! She never considered a career in automotive engineering but is fascinated with everything she's learning.
Continued friendship, continued commitment to our kiddos. 🔆
Thanks to
@tkelce
, we will soon be a safe, educational space for children birth through high school graduation & WE ARE SO EXCITED!
BIG THINGS HAPPENING IN KANSAS CITY! Not only will
@tkelce
be here another 6 years, but his legacy will live on even longer, through the Operation Breakthrough Ignition Lab: Powered by 87 & Running! [
@OB_Inc_KC
]
☝️ We are so lucky to be
@nick3lopez
's #️⃣1️⃣! Thanks for encouraging us to follow our dreams by working hard!
@Royals
second basemen, Nicky Lopez, kicked off his new community outreach program by chatting with some of our kids over zoom!
#nickys1
@royalscharities
Thank you for the holiday hams!
@tkelce
teamed up with
@HyVee
to give 300+ hams to our families AND the construction workers who got our new Ignition Lab powered by
@87Running
ready to open in time of the start of school! ⚡
We've got the perfect getaway car, and it just so happens to be the first muscle car converted to electric by teens EVER! Through partnership with MINDDRIVE ,our Ignition Lab teens converted and restored this 1969 Chevelle SS Restomod...
We passed out our first round of
@kodiakcakes
this week to all of our families as they picked up their kiddos at OB! Thank you Kodiak Cakes and
@87Running
for helping feed our more than 1,500 children and families Operation Breakthrough serves each week. 🫶☀
THANK YOU
@tkelce
⚡
Happiness.. a smile.. HOPE.. a FUTURE.. You're changing the lives of hundreds of high school students with the Ignition Lab powered by
@87Running
Learn more about the Ignition Lab:
📸: NFL on FOX
@tkelce
we know you’re “SUPER” 🏈🏟️ busy in Vegas right now, so we got the next best thing thanks to our friends at Ruff Fire ☀️
Good luck to all of our
@Chiefs
players this weekend! You’ve got lots of fans cheering you on back home 🥳❤️🤞
#KansasCityChiefs
Update on our Robotics Team... they placed 15th out of 48 teams at the City Championship! Our two teams have been practicing each Saturday morning for the last 4 months. At the tournament, they have two and a half minutes to complete as many missions as possible.
Our middle school boys are refurbishing old bikes for kids to use on the blacktop as part of their Lead4Change community service project to improve their neighborhoods
HAIR CLUB - helping our kids to feel their best so they can be their best!
We started styling kids' hair on Wednesday afternoons then licensed cosmetologist Erica Watson volunteered to start cutting hair!
WOW! Thank YOU Kansas City! 🥰
Operation Breakthrough was voted “Best Local Charity” in the
@TheFastPitch
#BestofKC22
We are lucky to have so many wonderful friends in our community! ☀️
We had one of our own honored in the Buck O'Neil Legacy Seat at the Kansas City Royals game last week! Lesa Flanagan will be celebrating 44 years at OB in August, making her our longest tenured employee. Congratulations Lesa, we appreciate you! ☀💛
We have some delicious
@MinskysPizza
on our mind 😋
Minsky’s Pizza has partnered with
@tkelce
and his
@87Running
Foundation for “Round It Up a Buck for Kelce’s Kids” with all proceeds benefitting Operation Breakthrough’s children!
Muffler Shop ➡️ Ignition Lab & WE CAN'T WAIT!
The NEW Operation Breakthrough Ignition Lab powered by
@87Running
is scheduled to open THIS FALL!
Thank
@tkelce
& all our friends for making this happen!
🚀 Click to learn more:
The
@BMAFoundationKC
has been a valued supporter of OB for many years! Get your tickets today for an evening of music from Celtic Thunder's Byrne & Kelly on Wed, Jan 24 in support of a Foundation that is close to Operation Breakthrough's heart! Tickets:
RED FRIDAY!!
So many of our staff were deck out to cheer on the Chiefs! We can't wait until Sunday!
Here are a few of them rockin their red!
#WPMOYChallenge
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Some of our Ignition Lab Students are participating in the
@nelson_atkins
Teen Fashion Show! They're creating looks inspired by art in the museum's collection. We can't wait to see their finished product!
🍕🍕🍕 Our friends at
@MinskysPizza
,
@tkelce
, &
@87Running
celebrated selling 20,000+ Kelceroni Pizzas by throwing THE ULTIMATE PIZZA PARTY and donated $25,000 to Travis Kelce’s 87 & Running Foundation, which will use the money to benefit our new Ignition Lab! THANK YOU!
Matthew is in our School Age program and loves baseball, especially cheering on his friend
@nick3lopez
! Our students can’t wait to Zoom with you again this summer!
Mahomes Monday & SO EXCITED for Super Bowl WEEEEEEEK! 🏈
Can't make it to Tampa? You can still get in on the game & help with the Operation Breakthrough Ignition Lab powered by
@87Running
that
@tkelce
is helping us open by donating today!
Continued friendship, continued commitment to our kiddos. 🔆
Thanks to
@tkelce
, we will soon be a safe, educational space for children birth through high school graduation & WE ARE SO EXCITED!
We celebrated Juneteenth today with a parade, performances, and speakers! The children & staff have spent the month reading & learning about this Holiday!
See this special video, a tribute to Sister Berta Sailer's life and legacy. She passed away on Jan. 25, 2024. She will be remembered as The "Patron Saint of Troost".
The Giving Machines are NOW OPEN! 🎁
Autumn and Kaleaha were hoping the big present was a giant teddy bear but were still excited to unwarp The
@GivingMachineKC
with
@GovParsonMO
and Maurice Glover, Community Outreach Liaison from
@QuintonLucasKC
's office today!
Join us in congratulating Rachel Mcintosh, commonly known as Rachel Rock, on her 30 year anniversary of working at Operation Breakthrough! We are so grateful for you and your positive impact on so many lives throughout the years.
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! We are so grateful for everyone who shopped, donated, sorted, volunteered, and supported our Christmas program! You helped bring joy to 3,500 children in Kansas City this holiday season!
👻 Project BOO with our friends from
@kansascity
!
Thank you to all the staffers who organized such a fun event.. we loved showing all our yummy treats to Mayor
@QuintonLucasKC
Kansas City based artist Alexander Austin has painted murals all around the KC area- including at Operation Breakthrough!
He’s painted our founders on the side of our building. He’s painted our families inside our community space...
What an awesome 48 hours!
Our friends at
@gomake48
created the Ultimate Fan Experience with some old stadium chairs from Arrowhead Stadium & donated it to our new Ignition Lab powered by
@87running
!
Some of our kiddos even got to help with the build! 🔆
"Travis is not a champion to me just because of the Super Bowl that he won 8 months back, but also because of how much he cares about the children of OB & making us stronger. What he is really doing is changing lives. I know that because he changed mine." - Caillou, OB student
Sister Corita co-founded Operation Breakthrough with Sister Berta Sailer. She spent most of her life championing children and families facing adversity.
To read more about Sister Cortia's life and legacy and to leave your condolences, please visit:
Welcome to Studio 3030 - The Ignition Lab's NEW Podcasting/Recording Studio ⚡️
More than $30,000 in donations were raised to build the studio in Mathew George’s honor after he was killed in a hit-and-run incident last summer in LA.
@matchu_chutrain
@MatsBookClub
We're looking EXTRA GOOD with our fresh haircuts from our friend Mr. Kyle!!
He donated his time and talents to give about 15 of our school age boys trims. Thank you Mr. Kyle!
Thank You
#ChiefsKingdom
Over a million retweets and votes, UNBELIEVABLE!! The winning donation will go directly into this city! We all take care of each other and this contest was a testament to how much support we have here in KC to help make this place better!
Chiefs Kingdom wouldn't be the same without Sister Berta.
Today, we honor her passing by remembering all she did for Kansas City & youth in our community with
@OB_Inc_KC
. Thank you, Sister Berta! ❤️
Ignition Lab student, Morgan, has been exploring the intersection of science and sustainability! For her capstone project she designed and conducted an experiment about the effects of greenhouse gases on glacial and sea ice melting rates.
#EarthDay