The FSL seeks to acquire 350 acres to provide a transformative facility and resources through innovative facilities, collaboration and funding to support rural Kansas communities and provide equal opportunity for all.
The Future Service Leaders, RVC campus will support rural schools, communities, and families in east-central Kansas through funding opportunities and community partnerships to reduce barriers, promote evidence-based practices, and provide services that meet each community's self-identified needs and maximize outcomes.
The FSL serves rural students, communities, and families through its strategic plan to promote prosperity, resilience, and equality in rural communities. Our goal is to empower rural areas to create and develop strong economies and healthy communities. The RVC will provide services and resources that guide and support our vision to strengthen our rural communities. The RVC will connect the dots to neighboring universities, churches, rural schools, home schools, senior living facilities, and organizations. Everyone is welcome at the RVC.
Our Strategy:
We have worked hard to create an economic development strategy for our rural areas that fits the needs of our local communities, families and schools. Our strategy is a multistep process that has required assessing the current state of the region, identifying the value proposition, evaluating existing programs, and establishing partnerships for The Rural Vitality Center. Our strategy puts us in the position to prioritize specific initiatives, continue to prioritize specific needs for our communities, families and schools. Our board will work closely with each community to continue to meet the needs of our communities, families and schools.
Develop A Sustainable Tourism infrastructure
Bringing in visitors is important to our growth—it draws in spending from outside the region to generate economic growth for our local communities, families and schools. Whether it's exploring our unique educational and health and wellness experiences or getting soaking in the benefits of our cross-sector collaborations, the innovative infrastructure will be one of a kind.
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We have deliberately designed our education tourism facility to incorporate programs that involve leaders within our communities and businesses to strengthen support for our region. The RVC programs will encourage the revitalization of our rural communities, offer an economic impact, and increase equitable opportunities for rural communities, families, and schools. The RVC will also provide a data delivery model that policy makers can use to understand their region’s strengths and challenges relative to other regions and begin to focus on assets, or competitive advantage, and potential barriers to development.
The 350 acre $56M (phase one) rural vitality center campus will create a much needed rural-urban linkage that is important for social and economic development. Our partnerships with business leaders, schools, communities and organizations, provide a resourceful and progressive environment as well as fresh ways to capture and value the direct and rippling economic, social, and health benefits of rural communities.
Rural Leaders and community members: The 350 acre property and facilities will be acquired through the FSL Foundation. No community members will be taxed for any reason for this project.
How Do We Give Back To The Community
The Future Service Leaders Foundation will provide yearly grant opportunities to rural communities, families and schools. A cost share also allows us to provide yearly funding that will flow back into our local communities and schools.
Bringing The Rural Vitality Center To Life
For more than a year, our FSL foundation has prepared for The Reimagine Rural campaign. A feasibility study indicated a phased approach, along with a clear vision would make The Reimagine Rural Campaign most successful. Following feasibility, the highly experienced architectural firm of Anderson Knight Architects. were selected to design a state of the art Rural Vitality Center.
BHS Construction of Manhattan, Kansas will lead the way in our construction as they have worked with over 2000 projects and have a long history of being active in community and developing strong partnerships. We are excited to work with their incredible team and they help deliver a transformational facility.
The RVC campus style educational tourism environment will be spread-out over 350 acres, with innovative spaces that blend into the rolling hills. The architectural design incorporates a subtle but beautiful structure that bows to the beauty of what the flint hills of Kansas has to offer. This design will include a rural vitality center, a hillside amphitheater, hiking trails surrounded by nature and cattle, outdoor spaces (entry gardens, bridges, ponds, terraces and beautiful landscape). The design concept provides panoramic views of the hills to the north, south, east and west and the trails and spaces are full of nature including cattle that surround the facility in the surrounding pasture. These innovative spaces abound for experiential services and hub spaces that bridge the mental health services gap and education learning gaps in rural areas.
The Build-(phase one) $56M 90,000 sq ft Rural Vitality Center Campus Spaces for Instructional and Educational Experiences -
The construction schedule is set to take place late in 2023-24. At this time, we are meeting with schools, communities and families to share our vision, feasibility study and other information to create awareness regarding the ECenter. This process will allow us to answer questions, handle concerns and gather important feedback that will help determine the support needed to reach our sustainable development goals.
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