Our Work
Kansas Appleseed works toward policy solutions to ensure our communities are as strong as we all deserve.
Our Goals
It is possible to end hunger in Kansas. It is possible to confront and reform our state's justice and child welfare systems. It is possible for all members of our communities to participate and have their voices heard.
Kansans, working together, can build a more thriving, inclusive, and just state. This vision guides and organizes our work into three campaigns:
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All Kansans deserve the resources they need to support themselves and call the shots in their own lives. The Thriving Campaign works to stamp out economic barriers that harm our communities and hold us back. We are working to eliminate hunger by increasing access to SNAP food assistance, promoting Child Nutrition Programs, and engaging Kansans to identify local solutions.
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All Kansans should benefit from a fair and effective system of justice. To achieve this end, we must be frank about the racism and oppression our country’s institutions and structures were founded to uphold. By advocating for systemic change within Kansas’s child welfare and youth and adult legal systems, Kansas Appleseed is working to ensure justice for all.
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All Kansans should feel safe, welcomed, and able to participate fully in their communities under equal protection of the law. Kansas Appleseed is working to shift power to the people, activate community members around the issues that matter most to them, and break down barriers to civic participation. The focus of this campaign is civic engagement.
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Our Strategy
Our Strategy
To advance positive laws and policies, we research the details of a problem, its root causes, and workable solutions; we support the public's voice in policy decisions through grassroots engagement; and we shepherd policy solutions through the decision-making process at the state and local level. When necessary, Kansas Appleseed intervenes in systems of injustice through impact litigation to protect Kansans' rights and wellbeing.
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