Community Foundation of the Ozarks

On Tuesday, March 11, 2008 the Dallas County Community Foundation announced that they have raised the $25,000 to be matched through the Harry Cooper Supply Company Campaign for the Ozarks. Gary Funk, president of the Community Foundation of the Ozarks, presented a check for $25,000 at the event for the matching funds. The Buffalo Rotary Club established the Buffalo Rotary Club Davis and Mallory Memorial Fund, an unrestricted grantmaking fund, to meet the challenge.

The Harry Cooper Supply Company Campaign for the Ozarks is a dollar for dollar challenge grant in partnership with the Community Foundation of the Ozarks that is part of an overall regional effort to enhance community grantmaking endowments, establish administrative/operations endowments, and promote appropriate and best practices by community foundation board of directors. This initiative is made possible through the generosity of the Harry Cooper Supply Company.

Pictured above: Members of the Dallas County Community Foundation accept a check for the $25,000 in matching funds for the Harry Cooper Supply Company Campaign for the Ozarks.

Metropolitan National Bank has made three $1,000 donations to the Marshfield Area Community Foundation, the Nixa Community Foundation, and the Table Rock Lake Community Foundation. This gift qualifies for a $1,000 matching grant from the Community Foundation of the Ozarks’ Harry Cooper Supply Company Campaign for the Ozarks. This dollar for dollar challenge grant is part of an overall regional effort to enhance community grantmaking endowments, establish administrative/operations endowments, and promote appropriate and best practices by community foundation board of directors. Metropolitan National Bank has branches in Kimberling City, Marshfield and Nixa.

“Metropolitan National Bank appreciates what community foundations do for small communities. We have always been very interested in community activities, and we’re very aware of all the good things they do,” said Judy Pratt, VP and Branch Manager of the Nixa branch and Nixa Community Foundation treasurer. (more…)

The Table Rock Lake Community Foundation and the Taney County Community Foundation are pleased to announce the creation of the Tri Lakes Board of Realtors Good Neighbor Fund. This corporate grantmaking fund was established by the Tri Lakes Board of Realtors to support their organization’s charitable giving efforts in support of the communities where they do business.

Representatives from the Tri Lakes Board of Realtors presented the leaders of the two community foundations serving the area with a check for $10,000 to establish the fund with on Thursday, February 28. The fund will be dual listed with the Table Rock Lake and Taney County Community Foundations. The Good Neighbor Fund was established as a corporate grantmaking fund, one of several types of funds available to businesses electing to partner with Community Foundation of the Ozarks or one of its 40 affiliate foundations for their charitable endeavors.

Ozarks business of all sizes have worked with Community Foundation of the Ozarks or one of the 40 regional affiliate foundations to give something back to their community. Some of the key benefits of creating a corporate charitable fund with CFO include: sound charitable fund management, access to foundation resources, and participation in important foundation initiatives.

Photo: Janetta Cole, Tri Lakes Board of Realtors president, presents a check for $10,000 to Winter Skelton, Community Foundation of the Ozarks; Doug Jordan, Taney County Community Foundation president; and Jim Riddle, Table Rock Community Foundation president.

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More information about creating a corporate charitable fund with CFO is available here.

Hood-Rich, Inc, a Springfield-based architectural and engineering firm, recently made donations supporting grantmaking efforts of five affiliate foundations, including the Taney County Community Foundation, through the Harry Cooper Supply Company Campaign for the Ozarks.