An initiative to advance neighborhood prosperity...

In Kansas City neighborhoods within high-poverty zip codes, without displacement.

Aligning blighted properties, neighborhood leadership, and household wealth to ensure neighborhood-level economic activities produce environmental benefits, sustainability, and retained value within neighborhoods in high-poverty zip codes.

Mission: To strengthen the economic health of neighborhoods in high-poverty zip codes by activating vacant land, incentivizing neighborhood-leaders, and supporting households’ wealth & stability.

Vision: We envision thriving neighborhoods with stable households, empowered neighborhood-leaders, and neighborhood revenue-generating assets, ensuring lasting value flows directly back to the people and places they live.

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Property Activation

Neighborhood Leadership Incentive

The strategic activation of selected vacant lots into revenue-generating neighborhood assets through functional public art, native landscaping, and way-finder installations.

Neighborhood Leadership Incentive

Incentivize neighborhood leadership roles through recognition, discounts, and rewards that elevate civic engagement.

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HOUSEHOLD Wealth & Stability

Neighborhood Leadership Incentive

HOUSEHOLD Wealth & Stability

Help residents remain in and thrive within their homes through consistent household touch-points and access to resources.

Next Applications Open: Fall 2026

break the cycle.

Neighborhoods in high-poverty zip codes face systemic barriers that no amount of hard work alone can overcome. The residents here are not disengaged or unwilling—they are first responders, nurses, teachers, and city workers who keep the city running. Yet economic stability and wealth remain out of reach, even as the city grows. Poverty in this context is structural, not personal.

You can help change that. Adopt-A-Neighborhood in a high-poverty zip code and invest your time, resources, voice, and support to help

BREAK THE CYCLE.