Kansas City's Creative Nonprofit Organization.
MISSION
...BY USING THE ARTS TO NURTURE CREATIVE AND UNDEVELOPED IDEAS THAT SHAPE SOCIETY.
What does 'transcend' mean? It is said all the time. People transcending the game, fashion, technology, the industry. Why not transcend everyday challenges? To think bigger. To do better. Why not go bigger with the Arts & Nature in society? MRW! aims to influence responsible & nurturing relationships for one another & the earth we are gifted with. It starts with us. First comes the want to.
Desire to want better for the earth, humanity, and thyself.
The environment needs us. We need the environment. We need each other.
VISION
...OF THE ARTS & NATURE IN SOCIETY.
The Arts and Nature are functional, interactive, impactful, encouraging, and empowering.
Image Art and Nature receive the attention sports and entertainment do. Imagine multiple 24-hour Art & Nature channels on TV, multiple yearly televised Art & Nature Award Shows, and highly exposed Art & Nature contests; where the contestants' backstories are told, and the winner wins millions of dollars and receives worldwide attention; while the other contestants get signed to multiyear multimillion-dollar deals.
Publicity builds pipelines. Public acknowledgment is empowering to those doing the act and the act that is done.
2023
- Shumaker Family Foundation Grant Recipient.
- Community Capital Neighborhoods Rising Fund Grant Recipient.
- Charlotte Street Foundation Cultural Producer Grant Recipient
- KC Organizational Sponsorship Recipient.
- AARP Community Challenge Grant Recipient
- Panelist & tabled at the Temple Buddhist Center Earth Day Event
2023
- Co-host of the Rockhurst University Neighborhood Environmental Symposium. - EARTH/WORK: ARTISTS & SUSTAINABLE LIVING FEAT. CARL STAFFORD
- The Pitch KC article. "Boon Area 1 is a surprise community asset..."
- MRW! received the 2023 Sustainability Community IMPACT Award given by South Kansas City Chambers of Commerce.
- Carl was the Keynote Speaker at the Heartland Conservation Alliance Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Nature Walk. WATCH SPEECH.
2022
- Held Dream Pursuit Cohort 1 & 2 Workshops.
- Featured in Heartland Conservation Alliance's February newsletter.
- Cultural Producer Grant recipient presented by the Charlotte Street.
- Public Improvements Advisory Committee approved our request of a walking trail and the planting of native plants at Agnes Park. (PIAC Request No. 390129-District 5 Parks)
2021
- Recognized as the “Innovator to Watch” by Grinnell College
- Began donating to the Noble neighborhood from revenue generated at BOON AREA 1.
- Supported the Yan-Koloba Program led by Baraza African Cultures Center in partnership with
2020
Received funds from Heartland Conservation Alliance for creating From blight to BOON!
2019
Was a sponsor of SiStar's of Maat 2nd Annual Baby Shower.
2018
Was a sponsor of Imagine That! Kansas City's B-Side Festival
2017
- Started hosting '2nd Sundays: a social-networking gathering at BOON AREA 1
2016
Obtained the first vacant lot (now BOON AREA 1) from KC Land Bank.
2015
Began sponsoring L.I.F.E. MINISTRIES SUMMER CAMP
2014
MY REGION WINS! received its 501(c3) tax-exempt status.
Carl A. Stafford
Common Construction Team
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Kansas City's creative 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Established in 2014
Tax ID # 46-5527680