Vitality
Community vitality
Vitality is important to civic muscle because it provides the energy, resilience, and spirit that make sustained civic engagement possible. Just like a healthy body needs vitality to stay strong and active, a healthy community needs vitality to power its civic life. It shows up in how safe, welcoming, and connected a place feels, and in the opportunities, people have to live, work, and thrive there.
Programs
Missouri EATs
In partnership with communities across the state, Missouri EATs helps connect local stakeholders to build and strengthen their community’s food system. Missouri EATs is a community development process designed to engage people and help them develop a plan to act in order to make lasting changes to transform their local food system.
Strategic Doing for Thriving Communities
This one-day program guides communities through exploring community economic development opportunities they have and taking them through a planning process that leads to a goal-oriented plan.
Community Arts Program
The Community Arts Program is a three-way partnership between MU Extension, the University of Missouri, and Missouri communities to promote and foster arts-based community and economic development.
Connecting Entrepreneurial Communities
Connecting Entrepreneurial Communities aims to create, connect, and promote community economic revitalization through entrepreneurship as a driver for economic growth across communities in Missouri.
