Community Organization/Not for Profit

4C Sertoma currently supports the following charities through fundraising and service projects: Care to Learn Ozark & Nixa - The Children's Smile Center, Freedom's Rest and Least of These.

We connect donors and volunteers with the opportunity to build hope around the world.

Christian County Library is the public library district serving all of Christian County. Books are just the beginning.

Located in Ozark, Freedom's Rest Family Violence Center is a domestic and sexual violence shelter serving eleven counties throughout southwest Missouri.

Working to improve and protect the water quality of the springs, streams, rivers, and lakes in the James River watershed which consists of almost a million acres of land in portions of eight counties.

Nixa Area Chamber of Commerce memberships are available for
businesses, churches, organizations, individuals and seniors. Call 417.725.1545 for information.

MPO stands for ''Metropolitan Planning Organization.? The Ozarks Transportation Organization (OTO) MPO is the federally designated regional transportation planning organization that serves as a forum for cooperative transportation decision-making by state and local governments, and regional transportation and planning agencies.

MPOs are charged with maintaining and conducting a ''continuing, cooperative, and comprehensive? regional transportation planning and project programming process for the MPO?s study area. The study area is defined as the area projected to become urbanized within the next 20 years.

The MPO includes local elected and appointed officials from Christian and Greene Counties, and the cities of Battlefield, Nixa, Ozark, Republic, Springfield, Strafford and Willard. It also includes technical staffs from the Missouri Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Federal Transit Administration, and the Federal Aviation Administration.

Staff from local governments and area transportation agencies serve on OTO's Technical Planning Committee (TPC) which provides technical review, comments, and recommendations on draft MPO plans, programs, studies, and issues.

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