OUR MISSION
Missouri’s rural citizens face challenges that include limited infrastructure, sparse health care, and often widely dispersed social connections.
They also enjoy tremendous advantages like a low cost of living, a friendly business environment, and a ready workforce with a world-renowned midwestern work ethic.
A resilient community balances these challenges with opportunities and it is this balance that we seek to enhance. Our rural communities are vital to the nation’s prosperity and the solution starts right here.
OUR APPROACH
Light a thousand candles and a bonfire will be unnecessary.
Missouri’s rural counties have vastly different advantages and disadvantages - and no one size fits them all. Listening to local residents and leaders, we identify critical elements that might enable and reward collaboration between existing community resources. We believe that churches, coaches, parents, public servants, and charities collectively have the means and will to build the ladders of success but may unknowingly compete instead of cooperate in their common mission. Our desired end state is to institutionalize this cooperation, so that young Missourians make a first choice to remain or return - seeing no clear advantage in opportunity nor happiness to relocate elsewhere.
The first move is yours!
Here are some ways to join the action
choose one…or all!
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GET INVOLVED
REACH OUT to us and see how you can join us in supporting rural Missouri!
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DONATE
DONATE to the cause (these things SOMETIMES take money, though not always)
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JOIN
JOIN our list of supporters and let us know how you might contribute!