Invite-only grants support capital projects
The Community Foundation of the Ozarks and Jeannette L. Musgrave Foundation recently announced grants from an invitation-only program to support capital projects for nonprofits with missions that align with Jeannette Musgrave’s funding priorities of health care and mental health, and improving quality of life for low-income communities, children and babies, and the unsheltered.
The recipients include:
- Child Advocacy Center: $188,000 for strategic planning and consulting fees related to a future facility, and a staff site visit to Project Harmony in Omaha.;
- Council of Churches of the Ozarks: $100,000 to support the Level Up Capital Campaign for its new facility on East Division Street;
- Dickerson Park Zoo: $97,000 to re-roof and renovate the Jeannette L. Musgrave Zoo Education Facility and purchase a cargo van for its outreach program;
- Ozarks Food Harvest: $67,145 to purchase a cargo van for transporting produce from donors to delivery sites;
- Presbyterian Children’s Homes & Services: $54,500 to renovate and update the plumbing at Ashley House, a transitional living facility for youth in foster care.
The Musgrave Foundation’s distribution committee is chaired by Rob Baird and includes Emily Bowen-Marler, Ferba Lofton, Danny Perches, Peggy Riggs and Thomas Slaight, with support from CFO staff members Bridget Dierks and Ashley Fleming. Thomas J. Carlson also serves on the committee but abstained from the selection process.
Arvest supports United Way
The Arvest Foundation recently announced a $35,000 donation to United Way of the Ozarks in Springfield.
Funds from the Arvest Foundation donation will help the United Way of the Ozarks remodel its existing office space into a functional community meeting room, which will help with the rollout of its new community engagement strategy and offer a more flexible meeting space for its other programs.
The funds will also help the United Way continue its Give 5 program, a five-week civic matchmaking program that connects retirees aged 60 and over to meaningful volunteer opportunities that fit their skill sets and passions.
Inclusion grants announced
The Community Foundation of the Ozarks has selected the final recipients of the Inclusion & Belonging Grants for the 2023–24 grant cycle.
The five recipients, receiving a total of $11,312, are:
- ALAS (Alliance for Leadership, Advancement, and Success): $3,000 to support a mental health summit for Latina women in Greene County on March 8, 2025;
- Fostering Hope: $2,000 to purchase toiletries and Black hair care products for children in foster care;
- High Tide Theatrical: $1,500 to present sensory-friendly and accessible performances of three productions in Springfield;
- Missouri State University: $3,000 to support “A Girl Like Me Mentorship: Level Up Mentor Program”;
- SET Ranch & Prosperity Club: $1,812 to support a curated exhibition that honors and celebrates Black heritage at the George A. Spiva Center for the Arts in in Joplin in 2025.
Over the past 12 months, the CFO granted $40,000 to 18 agencies through the Inclusion & Belonging Grant Program to ensure equitable participation and engagement in communities across the region. The program is now closed but will reopen in mid-July for the CFO’s 2024–25 grantmaking cycle.
Sammy’s Window opens in Branson
FosterAdopt Connect has opened a new Sammy’s Window location in Branson to serve foster and adopted children and their families in the Branson area.
The new Sammy’s Window is located at 5571 S. Gretna Rd., Suite F in Branson, MO.
Sammy’s Window is a direct services program that started in Springfield. Sammy’s Window, a clothing closet and food pantry, provides basic necessities for foster and adoptive parents, kinship care providers, and older foster youth in 22 counties in the Ozarks. Families are allowed to shop monthly for clothes, socks, underwear, shoes, hygiene products, and other items.
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