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Southeast Kansas
Prosperity Foundation
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Operation Back Home
Again to Kansas |
- Are you looking for opportunities to provide more benefits to your Chamber Members?
- Is your community losing population or just staying status quo?
- Do your employers have job openings they cannot fill?
- Would your community like to increase your tax base and provide more services without a tax increase?
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Then read on!!!! |
Back Home Again to Kansas is a recruitment program to bring former Kansans or recent college graduates back to the region.
Back Home Again to Kansas can help southeast Kansas companies find skilled, technical, talented and experienced workers
Back Home Again to Kansas gives individual the chance to return to the state to be close to their aging parents, or to enjoy a simpler lifestyle away from the big city, or pursue their entrepreneurial dreams
Southeast Kansas Chambers of Commerce and their communities will benefit first from the rewards of Back Home Again to Kansas. |
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Southeast Kansas Chambers of Commerce and their communities will benefit first from the rewards of
Back Home Again to Kansas.
And here’s why...
Opportunity to increase population base
Opportunity to Increase school enrollment
Opportunity for more skilled and talented labor available
Opportunity for new leadership blood for community organizations and activities
Opportunity to access “Out of Town” experience and bring it to a local level
Opportunity to increase your community’s tax base
Opportunity to increase local retail sales
Opportunity to provide an economic development initiative for your local businesses by providing prospective employers to them
New energy and a love for small town communities and lifestyle
Opportunity to increase cultural activities
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PROJECT GOALS
We need to find the people who have left the area . How? Through high school alumni associations; parents of those who have left; community homecoming mailing lists; graduates of community colleges and Pittsburg State University.
Local Chambers can work with these entities identified above (and there may be more in your community ) and help us build the database of potential contacts.
Operation Back Home Again to Kansas will identify and survey these contacts determining employment history and status education levels, training experience, income ranges, income needed to be enticed to return, and housing and leisure interests. This data will also be requested from spouses.
The data will be processed and classified from the respondents for referral to existing employers and prospective employers.
We will establish a secondary labor pool to draw from and expand our existing labor pool over time.
We will increase accessibility and availability of skilled and semi-skilled workers for present and prospective employers by not less than 5% within the region over a five-year period. |
What is our potential for growth?
There are approximately 26-28 high schools in the region with an average of 100 graduates each year who are potentially leaving the area. Multiply by 30 years for graduates (with a reach to age 48+) there is an estimated 84,000 who have left the area and may want to return.
There are many who want to return, we just need to invite them Back Home Again to Kansas.
Our goal is to reach 80,000 former residents. |
What can your chamber do to be a part of this recruitment mission?
- ACT upon the desire to be a part of this effort to bring native Kansans back to our area.
- Help identify the people in your community who have access to the data bases for your high school alumni; community homecoming, etc. and or names of people you know who have an interest in returning to Kansas
- Supply these items:
One sheet of your Chamber’s letterhead
The signature of you or your President’s for the introduction letter and survey
A supply of envelopes for the mailing (quantity to be determined later)
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Southeast Kansas, Inc. will be responsible for:
- Receiving the alumni information from your community and prepare the introduction letter and survey
- Receiving the survey information and build the database of prospects interested in moving back to Kansas
- Printing and Postage
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| In return, your chamber will receive the summary of the prospects who have an desire to return back to Kansas |
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Back home Again to Kansas — A partnership with Southeast Kansas, Inc. Southeast Kansas Chambers of Commerce; private business and the State of Kansas. An opportunity to grow our communities and our employment base. |
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P.O. Box 1262 Pittsburg, KS 66762
(620) 235-4039