12 agencies receive $50,000 in CFO grants

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The Community Foundation of the Ozarks announced July 30 the recipients of grant awards from the social justice and education categories in the spring grant round. Through its Springfield-Greene County area discretionary grants program, CFO awarded $50,000 in grants to 12 agencies. |ret||ret||tab|

The market and the total economic environment have spurred more competition for grants among organizations, according to Debbie Myers, program officer for the Community Foundation of the Ozarks.|ret||ret||tab|

"Government funding has been cut; donations are down," Myers said. "We had grant requests totaling $125,000."|ret||ret||tab|

Legal Service of Southern Missouri received $12,000 in start-up funds to provide a paralegal for the "Domestic Violence Unit," a collaborative effort with the Family Violence Center and Carol Jones Recovery Center for Women. |ret||ret||tab|

Greene County Guidance Clinic received $9,800 in start-up funds to provide programs for high-risk boys, aimed at the prevention of family violence.|ret||ret||tab|

Ozarks Technical Community College Foundation received $2,375 to assist with the purchase of videos and computer equipment for English as Second Language students. |ret||ret||tab|

Springfield Public Schools Foundation received $2,825 to provide fees for deserving students to take the International Baccalaureate Program exam. |ret||ret||tab|

Community Partnership of the Ozarks received $3,000 to provide deserving children with the opportunity to attend summer park programs. |ret||ret||tab|

The Discovery Center received $3,500 to be used as start-up funds for a coordinator of the "ScienceWorks on the Road" program. |ret||ret||tab|

History Museum for Springfield-Greene County received $1,000, which will enable the museum to recognize the bicentennial of the Corps of Discovery and to host the exhibit, "Lewis and Clark Historic Landscape Mapping."|ret||ret||tab|

Ozarks Literacy Council received $3,000 for a collaborative effort with the Springfield Family Y (Ward Branch) and Boys and Girls Clubs to link high-school tutors with middle and elementary learners. |ret||ret||tab|

Interpreter's Coalition/ Watershed Committee of the Ozarks received $4,000 for a collaborative effort between Watershed Committee, Springfield Public Schools Foundation and the science curriculum coordinator of Springfield R-VII schools to provide funding for science field trips. |ret||ret||tab|

Camp Barnabas received $3,000 to enable ill and disabled children to experience summer camp. |ret||ret||tab|

Habitat for Humanity ReStore received $5,000 for the expansion of the Habitat ReStore to include a coordinator/mentor staff person to work with county-assigned volunteers. |ret||ret||tab|

Wolf Mountain Retreat received $500 in start-up funds for a disability course to educate school-age children concerning the challenges of being physically disabled. |ret||ret||tab|

Recipients were chosen by a committee of 10 individuals who have been involved with CFO as volunteers, members of its board of directors or members of its advisory council.|ret||ret||tab|

The next round of grants, which will be in the area of human services and health, is already under way. Concept letters for those grants were due Aug. 1. Recipients likely will be chosen in November and announced and awarded in December, Myers said.|ret||ret||tab|

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