PROJECT OPERATIONAL FRAMEWORK
INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERSHIP RETAINERS
Select the tier built for your workforce size. Secure your annual retainer upfront to waive monthly administrative fees and directly accelerate our urban property acquisitions.
Employee Size Brackets:
ENTERPRISE INNOVATORS TIER
For Large-Scale Institutions (100+ employees), For-Profit Corporations, Insurance Firms, & Technical Companies.
Annual Roster Plan: $10,000 / Year (Paid Upfront — Best Value)
Monthly Progress Plan: $1,000 / Month
ASSET PILLARS TIER
For Mid-Scale Organizations (26 to 99 employees), Local Small Businesses, Nonprofits, & Community Associations.
Annual Roster Plan: $5,000 / Year (Paid Upfront — Best Value)
Monthly Progress Plan: $500 / Month
CIVIC FOUNDATIONS TIER
For Micro-Enterprises (1 to 25 employees), Public Schools, Healthcare Infrastructure, & First Responder Units.
Annual Roster Plan: $2,000 / Year (Paid Upfront — Best Value)
Monthly Progress Plan: $200 / Month

Design a framework to scale our flagship zero-mowing model from 1 baseline site to 3–5 new business-zoned, corner, and/or conservation lots owned by Land Bank, establishing a city-wide public art and ecological movement that demonstrates the liberating power of art, nature, and neighborhoods.
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Site Criteria Restrictions:
Confine all new property acquisitions strictly to business-zoned, corner lots, or conservation parcels under 4 acres chosen from the municipal Land Bank repository to ensure maximum public visibility and zero long-term mowing maintenance.
Material & Artist Collaboration:
Partner with local Kansas City artists to design land installations using primarily found raw materials, natural resources, and used items obtained.
Corporate Impact Tuesdays:
Corporate and organizational volunteer workdays on Tuesdays.

Design a framework support the 350+ neighborhood leaders and build upon the 5 baseline households in 100+ neighborhoods that are in 12 high-poverty zip codes, establishing a scalable blueprint to combat structural redlining.
2027 HS&W Application Submission opens November 1st, 2026.
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Property Activation
Maintain a verified list of identified vacant urban parcels, utilizing GIS mapping tools to secure future capital funding for native landscaping, public art, and community wealth installations.
Neighborhood Leadership Inc.
Formally design and issue the N.E.C. Civic ID Card to our core cohort leaders, initiating a phased outreach program to recruit local merchant partners who offer targeted discounts and community access.
Household Stability & Wealth
Anchor our 5 baseline households through monthly human-centered resource emails, 4 seasonal household gift baskets, and manageable bi-monthly wellness check-ins to track environmental stability.

We are always looking for passionate individuals ready to dive in, take ownership, and create lasting change. Bring your energy, your passion, and your unique perspective to MY REGION WINS! and make a contribution that live well beyond your time with us.
Gain Hands-On Experience: Work directly on active, real-world community initiatives.
Expand & Showcase Your Skill Set: Apply your talents and build a standout portfolio.
Receive Mentorship: Get direct professional guidance to accelerate your career growth.
Network with Leaders: Connect directly with local creatives, activists, and neighborhood organizers.
Creatively Tell Community Stories: Use media, drawing, photography, and writing to amplify and ignite bold ideas to reclaim social power.
Amplify Underrepresented Voices: Ensure marginalized community perspectives are heard loud and clear.
Make Your Voice Heard: Take up space and actively contribute to the organizational dialogue.
Support Events & Exhibitions: Assist in coordinating public workshops, art galleries, and cultural pop-ups.
Create Real Change: See the direct footprint of your work in high-priority communities.
Help Beautify Green Spaces: Dive into sustainable land care and eco-friendly urban agriculture.
Bring Your Ideas to Life: pitch your concepts and get the support to actually execute them.
Build Lasting Projects: Create sustainable programs that serve the neighborhood for years to come.

Reclaiming the Soil: Boon Area 1
In 2016, we acquired a blighted vacant lot from the Kansas City Land Bank. By replacing neglected turfgrass with an intentional native prairie ecosystem of Buffalo Grass, Little Bluestem, Blazing Star, and other native grasses and plants, we transformed an environmental liability into a functional green space and living demonstration site for engagement.

2025
- Keynote Speaker at MDC - Burr Oaks Center on NatureScaping
- Black Community Fund grant recipient
- Evergy Hometown Grant recipient

2024
- Keynote speaker at the HCA Rev. Dr. Martian Luther King Nature Walk
- A speaker at Deep Roots - Plant It Native Landscaping conference.
- Appeared on EcoRadio KC
- International students from Chile visited Noble's BOON AREA 1 a s part of a tour UMKC gave.
- Appeared on URBAN CONNECTIONS
- M.A.R.C. Water Quality grant recipient
- SHUMAKER Family Foundation grant recipient
- Panelist at the 3rd District Convention.

2023
- Appeared on KKFI - Urban
- 2023 Sustainability Award winner
- POTENTIAL FUTURES: PROTOTYPES Exhibition.
The Foundation for Regeneration Grant Recipient
- Shumaker Family Foundation Grant Recipient.
- Community Capital Neighborhoods Rising Fund Grant Recipient.
- Charlotte Street Foundation Cultural Producer Grant Recipient
- KC Organizational Sponsorship Recipient.

2023
- Panelist & tabled - Temple Buddhist Center Earth Day Event
- Co-host 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..."
- Received the 2023 Sustainability Community IMPACT Award given by South Kansas City Chambers of Commerce.
- 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
Was a sponsor of L.I.F.E. MINISTRIES SUMMER CAMP

2014
MY REGION WINS! (MRW!) nonprofit organization was established.
Where stewardship and networking meet.
Every 2nd Sunday
July, August, and September from 11-1p