The Jeannette L. Musgrave Foundation is granting gifts totaling $100,000 to seven nonprofit organizations in the Greene County area at a press conference at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 1 at Ozarks Food Harvest.
The Roy W. Slusher Foundation is making sizeable grants, totaling $100,000, to nearly one dozen Stone and Taney County nonprofits at a press conference at the Keeter Center at the College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout.
Starting Sunday, Jan. 22, all ten Springfield–Greene County Libraries and the mobile library will accept non-perishable food as payment for overdue book fines during regular business hours for one week.
Shoppers have until Dec. 31 to Check-out Hunger for Ozarks Food Harvest at 60 participating area grocers.
Smart Chicken will donate nearly 7,000 pounds of frozen chicken to Ozarks Food Harvest tomorrow. This is the ninth consecutive year Smart Chicken held the Feed the Hungry promotion.
Ozarks Food Harvest received the final donations from the fourth annual McDonald’s Cans for Coffee food drive this week, collecting a grand total of 36,650 pounds, making it the largest non-disaster related food drive for southwest Missouri’s Feeding America food bank.
Ozarks Food Harvest received a truckload of margarine and cheese sauce from a national donor, Land O’Lakes, today at noon at its warehouse in north Springfield.
The Ozarks Region Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) recognized National Philanthropy Day on Friday, honoring Kraft Foods, Inc. as the Corporation of the Year and the Roy W. Slusher Foundation as Foundation of the Year.
Tyson Foods, Inc. will donate nearly 40,000 pounds of protein to Ozarks Food Harvest in the name of the fourth annual McDonald’s Cans for Coffee food drive for 28 southwest Missouri counties.
Sixty local grocery stores in nearly 40 communities will participate in the thirteenth annual Check Out Hunger campaign to help feed the 20,000 people Ozarks Food Harvest’s network of charities serves weekly across 28 Missouri counties.