Family, Community & Civic Organizations

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.

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.

Christian County food pantry helping those in need since 1998.

Gently used household items and a full range of designer and routine handbags, men, women, and children's clothing, and shoes. Items have been carefully selected for value and cleanliness and are ready to be repurposed for your family and career needs!
All proceeds of this Thrift Store benefit the Christian County Domestic Violence Shelter; Freedom's Rest.

The Resource for business and community information in Ozark.

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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