Map your cool places
Identify libraries, churches, community rooms, businesses, and homes with reliable AC.
Offer a cooling space →Neighborhood Playbook
Make your block heat-ready.
CoolKC works best when neighbors, faith groups, businesses, and outreach teams know who is at risk and what to do before the temperature spikes.
Choose check-in buddies
Pair volunteers with older adults, medically vulnerable neighbors, transit riders, and people living unsheltered.
Wellness checks →Stock a mini supply hub
Hold water, sunscreen, bug spray, printed flyers, and cooling kit supplies in a visible place.
Become a supply hub →Support a transit stop
Pick a stop near your neighborhood, church, school, or business and provide water during advisories.
Support-a-Stop →Host a cooling event
Use a game watch party, resource fair, meal, or open house as an AC break with supplies.
Host a watch party →Share what you know
Add your resources and events to CoolKC so the whole system can see what is available.
Share a resource →Keep it simple.
The goal is not a perfect program. The goal is a visible place to cool off, someone checking in, and water moving where heat risk is highest.