Make It Home: Live Local. Love Local. Campaign

Welcome to Maximize NWMO's "Make It Home: Live Local. Love Local." Campaign!

We know through listening to you - Northwest Missouri's residents and other stakeholders - that there is much to love about our 18-county region. We've also learned through extensive research that the most thriving communities across the globe are those with large numbers of people who practice simple habits to stay connected with each other and with the unique aspects of the places they call home.

Thanks to the help of our regional Communications CollaborACTION Team of volunteers, support team through JUPER Communications, and the generosity of the Patterson Family Foundation, Maximize NWMO, the regional vitality initiative of The Community Foundation of Northwest Missouri, will be sharing a weekly post featuring 101 Ways to Build Community throughout 2026 and 2027.

We are delighted to release the launch poster on Valentine's Day! It is sized as an 8.5" x 11" PDF file to make it easy for you to download, print, and post at your desk, on your refrigerator, and around your community. (See the FREE Resources section on this page.)

Stop back at this webpage and follow our Facebook page at @MaximizeNorthwestMissouri (https://www.facebook.com/MaximizeNWMO) for a new post highlighting each of the actions listed in this poster over the next 101 weeks. We'll also be launching some great swag along the way on this placemaking journey.

Join the fun and share the LOVE for truly engaging in and living LOCAL in the communities we are making our home.

QUESTIONS? Contact Maximize NWMO Director Christel Gollnick at together@maximizenwmo.org.

2.19.2026