Community Foundation of Southwest Missouri, Inc.
Contact Information:
3510 E. 3rd St.
Joplin, MO 64801
www.cfswmo.org
Established 2006
Board of Directors:
Elizabeth Betebenner, PhD • Don Gould • Stephanie Howard • Adrienne Jackson
For additional information please contact Michelle Ducre, CFO Director of Development, Southwest Missouri Regional Office, at (417) 359-5534
Total Assets (as of 12/31/11): $6,842,437
News and Updates
F0r news, updates, funds and donors related to the May 22, 2011 Joplin Tornado, please visit joplinrecoveryfund.org.
Seniors Benefit from Strong Affiliate Partnership
The Area Agency on Aging Region X Homebound Meal program serves meals to approximately 1,200 homebound clients in Barton, Jasper, Newton, and McDonald counties; an average of 700 active daily clients.
As everyone knows by now, 2011 has been an extraordinary year for Joplin and the surrounding area. The massive E-F5 tornado that devastated the city hit near the very end of the 2011 fiscal year, and has taken up most of the efforts of Community Foundation of Southwest Missouri, Inc., staff and board members since that day. But the CFSWMO was busy on a number of fronts before the tornado struck, including its partnership with a vital organization that helps stock the pantries of hundreds of seniors across four counties.
Each year, winter weather and spring storms prohibit the delivery of meals. The Area Agency on Aging Region X Homebound Meal program’s primary goal is to supply homebound clients with a healthy, shelf-stable meal when inclement weather or emergency situations occur. The emergency meal pack helps sustain clients until regular delivery resumes. These meals may be the only meals available to homebound clients and are critical to their well being.
“We have several instances of persons being totally alone and they have been without food for quite some time. Without our meals, they have no food,” said Stephanie Denham, Nutrition Program Director, explaining why the emergency meal packs are so important. “The city limit boundaries are not the community limit. So our persons who live on rural routes really benefit from the emergency meal packs since it may take several days for us to get to them during flooding, snow, or ice.”
Jerri Sargent, Director of the Meals on Wheels program through the Webb City Senior Center, delivers emergency meal packs with daily meals. During the 2011 blizzard, the senior center and was closed for four days. Meals on Wheels clients were unable to receive their daily meal for a week.
Sargent explained that many Meals on Wheels clients may only see the person (primarily volunteers) who delivers their daily meal.
“It’s the kind smile and a friendly ‘Hello’ that really seems to matter,” she says.
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Funds and Grantmaking
Existing Funds:
Able Mfg Employee Benevolence Fund
Arts Building Community Fund
Jerry and Sharon Berkstresser Fund
Beshore Family Foundation
Blake Hierholzer Family Fund
Leland Browne Life Insurance Fund
Kelly Jo Brookshire One Love Fund
Browne Family Foundation
Cable One Joplin Tornado Relief Fund
City of Carl Junction Capacity Building Fund
Carl Junction Educational Foundation Endowment Fund
Carl Junction Educational Foundation Fund
Carl Junction Police Department/Shop with a Cop Fund
Carl Junction High School Youth Empowerment Fund
College Heights Christian School Endowment Fund
Community Support Services of Missouri Fund
Community Support Services of Missouri Endowment Fund
City Pointe Beauty Academy Charitable Fund (HERO program)
EaglePicher Employee Benevolence Fund
Girls Night Out Fund
Crosslines- Joplin Hunger Challenge Fund
Lamar Good Samaritan Hunger Challenge Fund
Crosslines- McDonald County Hunger Challenge Fund
Ike’s Family and Community Fund
Jasper Products – Stremicks Heritage Foods Employee Benefit Fund
Project JOMO Fund
Realtors’ Benevolence Fund
The Joplin Fund
Rebuild Joplin Parks Fund
Joplin Recovery Fund
Joplin V-III School Foundation Fund
Joplin Schools Recovery Fund
Joplin Tornado First Response Fund
Joplin Tree Relief Fund
Kansas City Chiefs Joplin Recovery Fund
LaBarge, Inc. Benevolence Fund
Lagniappe Fund
LifeChoices Endowment Fund
Lovely Ladies Legacy Fund
McAuley High School Youth Empowerment Fund
Midcon Cables Company Employee Relief Fund
Mount Hope Historical Preservation Society Fund
Newspapers in Education Scholarship Fund
Will Norton Memorial Scholarship Fund
P and T Foundation
Philippians 4:19 Fund
Redings Mill Volunteer Fire Protection Endowment Fund
Relief Spark Joplin Fund
Southwest Missouri Arts Council Endowment Fund
Tri State Motor Transit Co. Employees Benevolence Fund
Wildcat Glades Conservation and Audubon Center Fund
Legacy Society Members:
Michelle Ducre
Lisa Knutzen
Steve Lawver (Carl Junction Community Center)
Ann Leach
Marty & Lori Smith
Community Grants for Fiscal Year 2011
Pro Musica, $2,500
Missouri Southern State University Symphony Orchestra, $1,500
United Way of Southwest Missouri, Child development program, $700
City of Carl Junction, fitness equipment, $1,700
Carthage Historic Preservation, Inc., building repairs, $958
George A. Spiva Center for the Arts, $1,450
Wildcat Glades Conservation & Audubon Center, $1,000
United Way of Southwest Missouri, Books for Dolly Parton Imagination Library, $1,000
Joplin Trails Coalition, to complete Ruby Jack Trail, $3,500
Community Support Services, $3,500
Area Agency on Aging Region X, for emergency meals, $5,000
Aspire of Southwest Missouri, $1,250
McCune-Brooks Healthcare Foundation, Inc., $2,000
Carthage Public Library, $2,000
Joplin Printing Co., Brochures and envelopes, $1,136
Fir Road Christian Church, Upward Soccer Program, Carl Junction YEP Grant, $250
Carl Junction R-I School District, Operation Fairy Godmother, Carl Junction YEP Grant, $250
Carl Junction R-I School District, Coffee Club Literacy Workshop, Carl Junction YEP Grant, $160
Carl Junction R-I School District, Tailspinners Reading Literacy Program, Carl Junction YEP Grant, $250
Carl Junction R-I School District, Community Problem Solvers, Carl Junction YEP Grant, $150
Area Community Health Emissaries, Inc., $1,212
Ascent Recovery Residences, computers and workbooks, $1,000
Carthage Crisis Center, repairing freight elevator, $2,250
Cerebral Palsy of Tri-County, speech occupational physical therapy, $2,356
Community Clinic of Joplin, $1,000
Joplin Association for the Blind, walking canes, $400
Joplin R-8 School District,
backpack program, $1,850
Alliance of Southwest Missouri, training materials for homeless youth hotline, $750
Ozark Center for Autism, Fit N Fun Physical education equipment, $875
American Red Cross Greater Ozarks Chapter, disaster response training materials, $1,000
Salvation Army – Carthage, electronic countertop, $500
United Way of Carthage, computer, $1,250
Joplin R-8 School District, backpack program, $450
SKIL Fiscal Agent, $190
Freeman Physician Group, $168
Freeman Health System, to support cancer treatment, $830
Boys & Girls Club of Southwest Missouri, $100
St. Peters Catholic Middle School, $150
St. Mary’s Catholic Elementary School, $200
House of Hope Joplin Incorporated, $150
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Jasper and Newton Counties, $200
Assistance to Joplin tornado victims, $17,500
Joplin R-8 School District, Bright Futures program, $2,500
Benevolence Funds:
Tornado Damage Assistance, $158,879
Benevolence Funds: Medical Assistance, $2,615