Nonprofit Spotlight
When Dr. Rod Casey, director of the Theological Education Initiative (TEI), first came to Columbia, he quickly fell in love with the trail systems, parks, and academic community....
EnCircle Technologies is celebrating their fifth anniversary and looking at plans for a merger. *Editor’s Note: Woodhaven announced a merger with EnCircle Technologies on August 9, 2018. EnCircle...
Columbia Public Schools and a fledgling not-for-profit called SEED Success partnered up in May to test out a new pilot program at a few Columbia elementary schools. The...
In Heritage Academy’s front office at Calvary Baptist Church, visitors will see a double-photo black picture frame hanging just past the awards case filled with silver and gold...
“At some point in time, you’ll need me as bad as I’m going to need you,” says Don Briggs, quartermaster of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 280. That’s...
Hap Hairston recalls that when the Columbia Public Schools Foundation was founded, he was the principal at Rock Bridge Elementary. Back then, one of the school’s teachers, Laura...
By the end of 2016, 65.6 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide because of persecution, conflict, or violence. Imagine being forced to flee your home, your country, and...
In 2002, JoDee Herschend, a Springfield resident, had a powerful dream that drove her to start an organization to bring the love of Jesus Christ to those who...
“If you had told me 25 years ago, when I was still working as a corporate lawyer in London, that I would be living in the middle of...
Here are things you don’t hear people say about sick people: I can’t believe that Mike can’t manage his cancer; he should have better self-control than that ....