Community Field Trip
Take a field trip with us! This one-day professional development experience combines classroom learning with community tours. Each Community Field Trip creates a great team-building experience for local companies that want to engage more in the community and ends with an interactive experience certain to inspire action. The trips provide an in-depth look at critical issues in our area and the nonprofit organizations working to overcome them. Your team members will learn first-hand how they can leverage their strengths to create a stronger community together!
Emergency Food & Shelter
The EFSP aims to supplement and expand the work of local social service agencies, helping people experiencing economic emergencies. EFSP funding is available to all organizations that support hungry and homeless people.
The Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP) was created on March 24, 1983, with the signing of the “Jobs Stimulus Bill,” Public Law 98-8. The EFSP aims to supplement and expand the work of local social service agencies, both nonprofit and governmental, to help people with economic emergencies (not disaster-related emergencies [i.e., fires of any kind, floods, tornadoes, etc.]).
AFL-CIO Community Services
We have a long and rich history with the AFL-CIO. Together, with the Springfield Central Labor Council, this partnership improves public and private support systems for workers and their families. This program exists to:
- Provide referral services to workers and their families through unemployment and crisis events
- Coordinate volunteer events to provide service and support to the community
- Build and maintain a relationship with the Springfield Central Labor Council.
- Contribute to initiatives that improve support systems, public & private, for workers and their families
- Improve the social and economic conditions of working families to help them build self-sufficiency
Click below to email the Community Service Labor Liaison, Betsy Fogle
Give 5
Give 5 is United Way Ozarks Region’s five-week civic-matchmaking program that connects Greene County residents aged 60 and up with meaningful volunteer opportunities tailored to their skills and passions. Participants dive into the community’s most pressing challenges—education, health care, poverty relief and more—and bring a strong work ethic and decades of problem-solving experience to make a real difference. Learn more.