Nonprofit Spotlight

As a graduate student studying horticulture therapy, Jessie Kwatamdia worked at a nursing home. Her experience gardening alongside older adults introduced her to the impact Alzheimer’s disease has...

Your health can have a huge impact on your quality of life — bigger, even, than you might think. From maintaining a job to forging personal relationships to...

Imagine you are a high school student attending the True/False Film Festival for the first time. The environment of the festival is already alive with an abundance of...

PACE — an acronym for Performing Arts in Children’s Education — sets high expectations for its performers and crew. Sure, they’re all children. But they have a job...

When Veterans United’s manager of diversity and inclusion programs, Loreli Wilson, first took her position, she searched for larger diversity programs to connect with across Columbia. She was...

In 2009, The Community Montessori consisted of 10 students and one instructor inside a house on King Street. “It was a little tiny house, but it was full...

After discovering there was only a week left to apply for a small grant through the Small Business Administration in July 2015, executive director of Central Missouri Community...

In 1965, Missouri senators Stuart Symington and Edward V. Long made a $9,000 donation to the Columbia Cosmopolitan Luncheon Club to support a new program teaching men and...