Community Foundation of the Ozarks

The Taney County Community Foundation is pleased to announce the establishment of the Tri-Lakes Community Hospices Fund. The Community Hospice of America Foundation established this capacity building fund to provide support funding for their Tri-Lakes area patients and families.

The Tri-Lakes Community Hospices Fund was started with a $225,000 bequest. The bequeathor requested that their gift be used for hospice care in Stone and Taney Counties.

The fund will be used to meet the needs of patients in hospice care and their families, needs not provided through government or private insurance. Patient needs, such as bills or household items, consistent with hospice’s mission to “provide comfort and support to patients and their families when a life-limiting illness no longer responds to cure-oriented treatments” are identified by hospice staff members who then apply for a grant from the fund to meet patient needs. The fund can also be used to support volunteer enhancement efforts and for public education about hospice.

“Branson has been very generous to hospice,” said Dorsey Levell with the Community Hospices of America Foundation. “This gift will bring more attention to community hospice and help the staff carry out our mission to provide comfort and dignity to patients and families in a difficult time.”

Related: Click here to learn more about giving back to the community through estate planning. The Legacy Society recognizes and honors donors who have included CFO in their estate planning as well as those who have made bequests.

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…)