What a great start!
It's so exciting to have already received more than 100 responses from young people across Kansas. Thank you for your interest in sharing your perspectives through the Kansas Power Up & Go project, a partnership with the Kansas Sampler Foundation and the Office of Rural Prosperity. Almost 70 of you have already filled out the survey form and I am in the process of scheduling and interviewing. It will take awhile to get to all of you so but be assured that I will.
Share with others
If there are other young people you know who would like to share their thoughts on living rural, feel free to share the survey. Here's the link: tinyurl.com/livingrural. We're looking for people from every county who are rural by choice or living in urban with some interest of moving to rural, or even people who live in rural but aren't very satisfied. We want all perspectives, all income levels, and diversity of ethnicity.
Connect
PowerUps-We're Rural By Choice Facebook page: facebook.com/PowerUps

Stay in touch with what is happening rurally, across the state: Sign up here for the PowerUp page on the Kansas Sampler Foundation site.

QUESTIONS? Contact Marci at marci@kansassampler.org.
Groups are interested in you!
We are starting to get calls from all sorts of organizations and agencies interested in knowing how you think. There is a demand for your collective perspective! I'll be sharing some of these requests with you as time goes on. After the final report is turned in, we envision a giant meeting with all of you so we can kick the networking into high gear and start connecting you with each other and putting your ideas into motion.

In the meantime, we will not release your contact information or responses to anyone, though the Office of Rural Prosperity will have access to your contact information though they also will not share it.
About the project
This project that we’re calling “Kansas PowerUp and Go” is designed to provide information to Lt. Gov. Rogers and the Office of Rural Prosperity to "identify programs, policies and investment that could improve conditions for young people in rural Kansas and roles communities and other stakeholders can play in reaching those goals.”

I'm Marci Penner, director of the Kansas Sampler Foundation. We are the ones conducting the interviews and communicating with you. The KSF mission is to preserve and sustain rural culture. We're based out of Inman. We've been to every incorporated city a couple of times at least to research for Kansas guidebooks.

Origin of name PowerUps: When the first core group was started in the early 2000s, we chose the name PowerUps to mean 21-39s who are rural by choice.