Nonprofit Spotlight

Mid-Missouri Legal Services: Above and Beyond

Everyone needs a lawyer at some point in their lives — whether you’re dealing with…

Show-me Central Habitat for Humanity: Filling the Affordability Gap

It’s hard to build cheap houses — that is, it’s hard to build cheap houses…

Love INC: For a Better Columbia

For most of her life, Jane Williams, program director and co-founder of Love INC, has…

Alzheimer's Association: Searching for a Cure

As a graduate student studying horticulture therapy, Jessie Kwatamdia worked at a nursing home. Her…

Family Health Center: Columbia’s Safety Net

Your health can have a huge impact on your quality of life — bigger, even,…

Boys and Girls Club of Columbia: New Place to Grow

The Boys and Girls Club expands with a new high school facility.

Columbia Public Schools Foundation: Opening Up Education

Imagine you are a high school student attending the True/False Film Festival for the first…

PACE: Life’s Biggest Role

PACE — an acronym for Performing Arts in Children’s Education — sets high expectations for…

Diversity Awareness Partnership: Dialogue on Diversity

When Veterans United’s manager of diversity and inclusion programs, Loreli Wilson, first took her position,…

The Community Montessori: Equal Education for All

In 2009, The Community Montessori consisted of 10 students and one instructor inside a house…

Central Missouri Community Action: Women Mean Business

After discovering there was only a week left to apply for a small grant through…

Job Point: On Point

In 1965, Missouri senators Stuart Symington and Edward V. Long made a $9,000 donation to…