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The Greene County Commission has approved money for 35 more organizations through the CARES Act Relief Fund.
The funding distribution is recommended to the commission by a 30-member volunteer group.
Organizations receiving funding in this distribution are:
Non-Profit/Community Organizations
- Springfield Little Theatre - $6,000 for supplies and personnel
- Ujima Literacy Program - $5,756.57 for community literacy, tutoring and previous expenditures
- Crisis Nursery for Isabel’s House - $123,500 for payroll and other categories
- Restoration of Hope Project - $21,010 staffing
- Ozarks Trails Council Boy Scouts - $73,180 staffing and participant assistance
- I Pour Life - $124,000 youth development programs, homelessness, video conferencing, and coaching and support services
- Help Give Hope - $5,000 for utility assistance
- Developmental Center of the Ozarks - $57,700 for payroll and other expenses
- Watershed Committee - $4,400 for vehicle and other operating expenses
- Family Violence Center - $32,580 for payroll, PPE and grab-and-go meals
- Foster Adopt Connect - $11,200 for staffing
- Ozarks Literacy Council - $6,000 for staffing
- Victim Center - $12,706.65 for staffing and computer equipment
- CASA - $17,523.84 for personnel
- Springfield Ballet - $1,984 for cleaning and technology
- The Beanie Brigade - $750 to distribute beanies to children undergoing cancer treatment
- The Air and Military Museum - $4,192 for operations
- Nightlight Christian Adoption Agency - $19,066.66 for payroll
- Consumer Credit Counseling Services - $160,804 for rent and mortgage assistance
- Catholic Charities - $306,321 for Rancho Motel renovations for homeless housing and mortgage and utility assistance
- Family Life Community Service - $129,676 for nutrition program
- Drew Lewis Foundation - $150,000 for housing, utility and food security
- The Kitchen - $97,682.14 for emergency shelter, technology, cleaning supplies and payroll
- Salvation Army - $28,105.50 for payroll and supplies
Health Care
- Bobby and Betty Allison Ozarks Counseling Center –$25,074 for personnel
- Women’s Medical Respite - $20,000 for payroll and homeless services
- Jordan Valley Community Center - $328,395 for mobile clinic for vaccinations
Education
- Missouri College Access Network - $360,000 to restore educational attainment
- Baptist Bible College - $59,442.75 for PPE, payroll, maintenance and supplies
- Willard Public Schools - $344,472.51 for PPE, technology and supplies
- Missouri State University - $845,164.96 for COVID testing
- Evangel University - $326,027 Technology and PPE
- Drury University - $14,880.89 for supplies and communication equipment
- Ozarks Technical Community College - $401,000 for COVID testing, PPE and other social distancing equipment
- Springfield Public Schools - $1,180,518.06 for COVID related costs, supply expenses: masks, shields, health screening, remote learning equipment
Learn more here. Click on CARES Act Relief Fund.
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