Health Forward Foundation has closed out its calendar year by providing more than $7.5 million in grants to 140 Kansas City-area nonprofits. The funding is through the foundation’s defined grants program. During the course of the year, Health Forward Foundation reviewed 215 proposals totaling more than $14 million, according to a release. Since it started making defined grants, the foundation has awarded more than $69 million to 442 nonprofits. Click here to see the recipients of this year’s…

Maxus Realty Trust has a plan to unlock value for shareholders while the multifamily market is running hot. The latest transaction involves a 208-apartment complex in Liberty.

David Smith plans to retire as CEO of Associated Wholesale Grocers at the end of next year. Current COO Dan Funk will succeed Smith as leader of the Kansas City, Kansas, co-op.

An 18-month acquisition spree continues for Mariner Wealth Advisors, which adds its 11th office in California and 81st overall.

Women have had to fight for every inch of advancement in the workplace, over decades forging careers in industries where they often were vastly outnumbered. And few industries have been as tough to crack — or required as much mettle from the women who ventured in — as construction and commercial real estate. Women make up just 9.9% of the U.S. construction industry, though their pay is nearly on par with that of their male counterparts, according to The National Association of Women in Construction.…