Create the Spirit of Missouri Fund
Create the Spirit of Missouri Fund
- Invest in a range of innovations that have a strong potential to impact at a large scale our state’s most vexing challenges.
- Broadly define innovation as any solution that
has the potential to address an important issue, including new business problems, technology, new delivery systems, public policy and/or behavioral insights. - Support a tiered funding system; from start-up to testing to scale-up.
- Provide various financing models (i.e. grants, loans).
- Ensure that the “Missouri model” educates and allocates a percentage of funds to individuals/ institutions, typically excluded from the investment of financial capital.
Model: Global Innovation Fund
Accountable Bodies: Missouri Legislature Missouri Governor Philanthropic Community Business Community
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Change your environment
Build trauma-informed communities and spaces.
Support great school climates
While policy changes are important to changing the landscapes of our schools, it is only effective when paired with culture changes. Engage with your child’s school to facilitate a great school climate and culture for all students, teachers and administrators. This can take the form of attending PTA meetings, starting discussion groups with other parents, or…