What happened

We asked for your feedback on a set of 13 strategies for a sustainable future for Greater Kansas City. Here are the ways you participated:

Right now


Survey: What should our priorities be?

Citizens were able to go through the same process as the KCPT studio audience. More than 200 people took an online survey and told us what Greater Kansas City's future should hold by ranking sets of strategies that could help our region become more sustainable.

Conversation-in-a-Box

One KC Voice, an Imagine KC partner, released a kit that allowed community groups, groups of friends, co-workers or any other small group to conduct their own discussions and submit their thoughts independently of one of our sponsored sessions.

13 strategies/13 days blog series

Thirteen guest writers took center stage during the month of April on One KC Voice's new blog. The series of entries were published April 1–April 13, 2009. Each of the 13 entries covered a separate strategy set forth in the vision for a sustainable future for Greater Kansas City. We invite you to continue to read, leave your comments, and interact with the writers.

Online chats

Each of the three sets of strategies for a more sustainable future for the Kansas City region had an in-page, live chat. The main Strategies page also had a chat for people who want to comment on strategies from two or more groups. These rooms were for exchanging ideas whenever people were inspired to share their thoughts.

Past


Kickoff event

Imagine KC officially started Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008, with a kickoff event that created the foundation for the project. This innovative forum consisted of a series of nearly 30 concurrent small-group discussions. The topics of discussion were generated by participants, and the discussions were led by participants. You can review main points of the conversations on What was said.

Workshops

Four workshops were held in fall 2008 with community groups to refine the topics brought up at the October kickoff event.

Imagine KC: Live! broadcast and satellite events

It all lead up to this: Earth Day, April 22, 2009 — a live, televised public forum was presented on Kansas City Public Television (KCPT) from 7–8:30 p.m. There were four public forums across the region that were held simultaneously and gave live reports during the broadcast.

What should our region spend money on in order to create a more sustainable future? You told our region's leaders what Greater Kansas City's long-term goals should be. Citizens watched at home and at the Power and Light District, where it was broadcast live on the big screen during Earth Day activities.