.<\/span><\/p>\nGrant’s Focus<\/h3>\n
\u201cThis year\u2019s focus on improving public spaces is a natural fit for rural Missouri, where the region\u2019s beauty and outdoor experiences rank among our state\u2019s most valued assets,\u201d said Jill Reynolds, senior vice president at Commerce Trust.<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<\/u> <\/u><\/span>Julia Dorothy Coover, a 30-year Commerce employee, founded the Louis L. and Julia Dorothy Coover Charitable Foundation in 1992 to honor her husband\u2019s memory. With these projects, the Coover Charitable Foundation has awarded nearly $8 million in grants to benefit the Ozarks since its partnership with the CFO began in 2001.<\/u><\/span><\/p>\nFounded in 1973, the Community Foundation of the Ozarks is marking its 50th<\/sup> anniversary in 2023 as the region\u2019s largest public charitable foundation serving a network of donors, 53 regional affiliate foundations \u2014 including the Alton Community Foundation and the Community Foundation of West Plains Inc. \u2014 and nonprofit partners across central and southern Missouri through its mission of resource development, community grantmaking, collaboration, and public leadership.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Community Foundation of the Ozarks awarded a $25,000 grant to the Eleven Point Valley Community Center Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[243,229,250,201,264,205,263,249],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21593"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21704,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21593\/revisions\/21704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}