House of Hope Campaign

On Aug. 5, the St. John’s Clinic Force for Good donated $35,000 to Community Partnership of the Ozarks for the Hope Project. The program provides homeless and impoverished parents with self-sufficiency skills taught in classes at Springfield’s Boyd Elementary School. Pictured, from left, are Dr. Teresa Olsen, Force for Good tri-chair; Donn Sorensen, St. John’s Clinic executive vice president; Melissa Haddow, executive director of Community Partnership; and Karen Gupton, Force for Good tri-chair. Force for Good also donated $25,000 to Isabel’s House, a temporary crisis-care emergency shelter.