Key Strategies being implemented in 2009 through Alliances:

Community Identity:
• Strategy: Develop a brand that will position the Wichita MSA internally and externally.

Cyber:
• Strategy: Create clusters and their supply chains with critical mass for diversified growth.

Agri-Business Innovations:
• Strategy: Develop value-added processing/packaging of existing and new agricultural and horticultural crops to expand into new markets.

Older Adult:
• Strategy: Attract and encourage high-income retires to relocate to or stay in the Wichita MSA.

Young Professionals of Wichita, Kansas Career Pipeline and Literate Community:
• Strategy: Retain our existing and future workforce and recruit new workers from outside the Wichita MSA.

Entrepreneur & Small Business:
• Strategy: Create an entrepreneurial and innovative mecca for direct value-added businesses.


Vision Partners: 58 Vision Partners and 400 Alliance Members are working on the Foundation Strategies.

Download Economic Development Foundation Stategies Document