GOTURSIX Organizational Framework

Building the conditions for economic mobility in Missouri’s Ozarks.

GOTURSIX is a veteran-founded 501(c)(3) community development nonprofit serving Missouri’s South Central Ozarks.

Our name comes from the military expression “I’ve got your six,” meaning “I’ve got your back.” That idea shapes how we approach community development.

We listen to the people who live, work, grow, build, and do business here. We identify the barriers standing between local resources and local opportunity. Then we bring people, partnerships, and practical infrastructure together to create pathways for communities to thrive.

Vision

Thriving rural communities where opportunity is created locally.

2026–2029 Strategy

Championing Ozark Food Producers

GOTURSIX focuses its community development work on the people, pathways, partnerships, and shared infrastructure that help locally produced food become local economic opportunity.

How We Work

Connect Neighbors

Listen locally and bring producers, consumers, community leaders, businesses, and partners into the work.

Navigate Barriers

Walk the pathways ourselves, identify what helps or hinders local enterprise, and turn lived experience into useful information.

Build What’s Missing

Develop practical partnerships, leadership, market pathways, and shared infrastructure that create opportunity locally.

Programs

Wright County Farm Stop

Shared market infrastructure designed to create pathways between local producers and consumers while providing a real-world learning environment for producer readiness, retail access, food access, value-added enterprise, and local market development.

South Central Missouri Foodshed Project

Regional listening and leadership work to understand how local food moves, what currently exists, what communities need, and what may be missing from the regional food system.

Local stories and experiences will help identify shared priorities and inform a regional Food System Action Plan.

Blessing Boxes

Community-scale infrastructure that connects neighbors with practical access to food and household essentials.

Hellbender Hollow Disc Golf Park

Community recreation that turns participation, partnerships, volunteerism, and outdoor space into support for local food access and community development.

What Success Looks Like

More Ozark producers have pathways to move from:

Resource → Product → Market → Enterprise

More rural consumers have opportunities to purchase locally produced food closer to home.

Local dollars have more opportunities to circulate locally.

Communities develop stronger producer networks, local leadership, partnerships, and shared infrastructure.

Barriers encountered by producers and consumers are documented through real experiences and communicated constructively to community partners and policymakers.

Local stories become regional knowledge.

Regional knowledge becomes shared priorities.

Shared priorities become practical action.

GOTURSIX Decision Lens

Before committing resources to a project, partnership, program, or investment, we ask:

• Does it connect local people or resources?

• Does it help navigate a barrier to opportunity?

• Does it build a pathway or piece of infrastructure that is missing?

• Does it strengthen local producer or community capacity?

• Can what we learn help another producer, community, partner, or policymaker?

The GOTURSIX Model

Listen locally.

Understand what people are experiencing.

Learn regionally.

Look for patterns, shared barriers, existing assets, and opportunities.

Build together.

Turn what we learn into partnerships, pathways, infrastructure, and action.

The Result

Stronger rural communities where more of the resources, knowledge, relationships, and economic opportunity already present in the Ozarks can create value here.

We make it easier to have your community’s back.