Tulips on Troost: Welcome NeighborWorks CLI Delegates!

Tulips on Troost aims to change the face of Troost Avenue by planting one million tulips along the Avenue in honor of an early Kansas City leader, Dr. Benoist Troost. Through this mission, we hope to inspire and motivate the citizens of Kansas City to recognize the value of neighborhood capital improvements and beautification in some of the city's most under-served neighborhoods. Tulips are just on the surface—our deep-rooted goal is to use a beautiful, accessible thing like a tulip to represent positive change on Troost and to let the city know that Troost is worth our time, efforts, and resources.

Welcome NeighborWorks CLI Delegates!

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Driving home in our Kia (which was filled to the brim with 8,000 tulip bulbs), after registering ourselves for this weekend's CLI conference, we noticed this new billboard from Truman Medical Center.

Thanks TMC for the tulips imagery. It is very welcome during our dirty digging days of October when we plant and we really appreciate your agreeing with us about healthy living.

We CAN take care of both ourselves and our communities and tulips are (for us of course) the very best image of health and happiness and rebirth.

After you add today's 8,000 tulip bulbs to the 12,000 we picked up last week you'll understand why we're still hoping you'll join us this Saturday, October 15th for our big Community Planting event on Troost Avenue.

If you can help, join us at Meyer Blvd. and Troost Avenue between 9AM and Noon and join a tulip planting team!

Welcome, again, CLI delegates. We're hoping to meet as many of you as possible while you're here in KC.

Please, please, please seek us out and tell us all about what's working at home to improve your communities!

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Lessons and Carols is a pretty neat KC event, too!