A Bronze Award was presented to Maximize Northwest Missouri by C.O.R.E. (Communities of Excelence and Resilience), a national nonprofit organization. The award recognizes outstanding communities for their leadership, collaboration, and measurable progress in improving quality of life. The award was presented during the annual C.O.R.E. fall conference in Denver.
The winning communities participated in C.O.R.E.’s Assessment and Recognition Program, where cross-sector teams describe their processes, partnerships, and key results using The C.O.R.E. Guide’s criteria of questions on leadership, strategy, residents and other stakeholders, data measurement and management, people resources, operations, and culture.
Maximize NWMO is the only collaborative group in the United States involved in the national organization that is working to not only involve multiple sectors, but to engage an 18-county, multi-jurisdictional, primarily rural region.