The following is a list of not-for-profit agencies in the Springfield area. This is not a comprehensive list. If you want to serve at an area agency that is not listed, please inform the SCAT Advisor so that the agency may be contacted.
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American Red Cross
- Mission: The American Red Cross, a humanitarian organization led by volunteers and guided by its Congressional Charter and the Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross Movement, will provide relief to victims of disasters and help people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies.
Big Brothers Big Sisters
- Mission: To enhance a child's self esteem and outlook for the future by: facilitating a positive one-to-one relationship with an adult role model with measurable impact and providing financial assistance for personal scholarship needs.
Boys and Girls Clubs of Springfield
- Mission: To provide programs that guide and direct youth from any background, with special concern for the disadvantaged, through a series of developmental activities that teach values of life, strengthen self-esteem, and develop productive citizens.
- www.bgclubspringfield.org
CASA of Southwest Missouri
- Mission: To recruit, train and support community volunteers who assist the court in protecting the best interests of abused and neglected children in Southwest Missouri.
- www.casaswmo.org
Champion Athletes of the Ozarks
- Mission: To build self-esteem, self-confidence and everyday life skill therefore enhancing the lives of children and adults with disabilities through sports competition and new opportunities.
- www.championathletes.org/
Community Partnership of the Ozarks, Inc (Caring Communities)
- Facilitates and promotes community problem-solving by coordinating and developing all available resources for the betterment of the community and its people.
- www.commpartnership.org/
Developmental Center of the Ozarks
- Mission: Developmental Center of the Ozarks makes a positive difference in the community by providing services which enable individuals to reach and maintain their optimal level of development.
- www.dcoonline.com/
Discovery Center
- The Discovery Center of Springfield is an interactive, hands-on museum committed to inspiring people of all ages with a life-long love of learning and an appreciation for the world and our place in it.
- www.discoverycenter.org/
Doula Foundation of Mid-America
- The Doula Foundation of Mid-America, a non-profit organization, firmly believes that every family, regardless of their financial means, deserves emotional, physical and informational support, before, during and after the birth process. DFMA believes each birth is a sacred event and doula support for "at risk" mothers and families helps strengthen family bonds and ultimately decreases child abuse and neglect.
- www.doulafoundation.org
Habitat for Humanity of Springfield
- Mission: Works in partnership with God and people everywhere to develop communities with people in need by building and renovating houses so that there are safe, decent, affordable houses in which every person can experience God's love and can live and grow into all that God intends. Habitat Springfield believes that every resident of Greene County should have a decent, safe, affordable home to live in.
- www.habitatspringfieldmo.org
Hand in Hand Ministries/Multicultural Center
- Mission: To empower individuals, ethnic and minority families, disadvantaged, and at risk populations to become healthier physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually, contributing actively and productively to the community.
- www.hihmc.org/
Harmony House
- Mission: To provide shelter, advocacy and education to survivors of domestic violence and protote the principle that all individuals have the right to a life free of abuse.
- www.myharmonyhouse.org
History Museum for Springfield-Greene County
- Mission: To preserve and document the history of Springfield and Green County
- www.springfieldhistorymuseum.org
The Kitchen
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Mission: To create a place where persons, expecially the poor, are welcomed and cared for with dignity and compassion
- www.thekitcheninc.org
Make a Wish Foundation
- Mission: Our mission at the Make-A-Wish Foundation® is to grant the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength, and joy.
- www.mo.wish.org
March of Dimes
- Mission: The mission of the March of Dimes is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality. The Greater Missouri Chapter is a leader in our community for saving babies through research, advocacy, community services and education.
- www.marchofdimes.com/missouri
Missouri State Speech, Language, and Hearing Clinic
- Mission: The mission of the clinic is to provide a clinical/educational environment in which to train students enrolled in the programs of speech-language pathology, audiology and educational assessment and intervention services for persons who are deaf or hard of hearing.
- clinic.missouristate.edu/mission.htm
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- Mission: To ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination.
- www.naacpspringfieldmo.org
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
- Mission: The National Multiple Sclerosis Society's vision is a world free of MS. We mobilize people and resources to drive research for a cure and to address the challenges of everyone affected by MS.
- www.msmidamerica.org
Ozarks Literacy Council
- Mission:To increase literacy in Southwest Missouri by providing free tutoring and learning services to those unable to read, write, or compute at levels necessary to function fully on the job, in their communites, and in society as a whole.
- www.ozarksliteracycouncil.org
Ozarks Technical Community College-Adult Education & Literacy
- Adult Education & Literacy instruction is designed to teach persons 16 years of age or older to read and write English and to substantially raise their educational level.
- The purpose of the program is to expand the educational opportunities for adults and to establish programs that will enable all adults to acquire the basic skills necessary to function in society, allowing them to secure training to become more employable, productive and responsible citizens. This type of instruction will allow adults to continue their education through completion of secondary school.
- http://www.otc.edu/
Parenting Life Skills Center
- Mission: Strengthen families by teaching life skills in a caring, nurturing and accessible environment in order to promote self-worth and quality of life.
- www.bgtm.org/plsc
Planned Parenthood
- Mission: To ensure that everyone has the right to decide when or whether to have a child, and that child should be wanted and loved. Every woman worldwide is in charge of her own destiny. Planned Parenthood, in many communities, is the only source of affordable, high quality reproductive health care services and information.
- www.ppmissouri.org
Pregnancy Care Center
- Mission: The Pregnancy Care Center (PCC) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) whose mission is to offer health, wellness, and relationship education for men and women facing unplnned pregnancies and prevention education, which empowers teens to embrace a healthy lifestyle.
- www.pccchoices.org
Rivendale Institute of Learning
- Mission: Provide an alternative education to children with special needs.
- www.rivendaleinstitute.com
Ronald McDonald House of the Ozarks
- Mission: To find, create and support programs that directly improve the health and well-being of children in the Ozarks. Our first prioriy is to provide a place for families to stay when their child is in a hospital far from home.
- www.ronaldmcdonaldhouse.org
Springfield-Greene County Library District
Springfield-Greene County Parks: Rutledge-Wilson Farm Park
St. John's Hospital
Stalnaker Boys and Girls Club
- Mission: To provide programs that guide and direct youth from all backgrounds, with a special concern for those disadvantaged, through a series of social, physical, and educational development activities that teach values of life, strengthen self esteem, and develop productive citizens
The Potter's House
United Way of the Ozarks
- Mission: The mission of the United Way fof the Ozarks is to increase understanding of human needs and to mobilize resources to meet these needs.
- www.uwozarks.com/
University Child Care Center
- Mission: The primary purpose of UCCC shall be to operate a state licensed educational child care center and to provide quality child care for the children of day students, day faculty and staff of MIssouri State University, the host church, and the community. The program is planned to meet the needs of the whole child -- physically, socially, creativity, emotionally, and intellectually. Secondary goals of UCCC are (1) to allow college students in child and family development, child psychology, early childhood education, and related fields to observe and participate in UCCC, and (2) to allow the host church to extend its ministry to members of the university campus and the community.
- www.universitychildcarecenter.org
Wonders of Wildlife
- Mission: To educate, inform and entertain visitors concerning the value of fish and wildlife to help them appreciate our heritage of hunting and fishing and to motivate their personal involvement in the conservation of our outdoor resources.
- www.wondersofwildlife.org