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The Springfield community rallied this week to support a neighborhood center damaged by vandals who spray-painted the historic building with phallic symbols, scribbling and racial slurs.
Mark Dixon, executive director of the Bartley-Decatur Neighborhood Center, said the all-volunteer board has been overwhelmed by the volume of supportive messages, offers of help, and donations. At this point, counting a grant that we re going to be receiving by way of the Community Foundation of the Ozarks, we re right around $11,000, he said, noting the CFO grant is for $5,000. That was raised in, like, a day and a half.
Dixon said the center has received donations, ranging from $5 to $500, from at least 100 individuals or families. There has been an outpouring from the community, at large, that has just been amazing.
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The Meramec Regional Community Foundation (MRCF) has awarded grants totaling $10,000 to five nonprofit agencies for recovery needs related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Three nonprofits who received grants are located in Phelps County.
Hope Alliance of Missouri received $2,500, Tri-County Center for Independent Living received $2,500 and the Rolla Mission received $1,500 from the Meramec Regional Coover COVID grant program.
MRCF received a $10,000 grant from the Community Foundation of the Ozarks (CFO), which was made possible by the Louis L. and Julia Dorothy Coover Charitable Foundation, managed by Commerce Trust Company in partnership with the CFO.