Local organizations are among those participating today in Give Ozarks — a 24-hour campaign to raise funds for needed projects.
Among those participating are Houston Education Foundation, Texas County Food Pantry and Texas County Memorial Hospital Foundation.
May 3 is Give Local America Day, where community foundations across the country will hold similar online fundraising events to boost resources for their local non-profits, encourage new donors and raise awareness of philanthropy in general. Online giving days, a growing movement in the philanthropy field, has raised millions of dollars for non-profit organizations in recent years.
In its first year, more than $1 million was raised in the Ozarks.
The Houston Education Foundation (HEF), Texas County Memorial Hospital Foundation (for scholarships) and Texas County Food Pantry are non-profit partners of Community Foundation of the Ozarks, which is hosting Give Ozarks. CFO is a regional public charitable foundation founded in 1973, which includes 49 affiliate foundations and about 600 non-profit partners and schools.
HEF also plans a rally 3 to 5 p.m. Tuesday at the Lone Star Plaza pavilion. Persons can come by and make an online donation or go to giveozarks.org at home. Cash donations can also be dropped off. Funds will be used to purchase 30 Chromebook computers and a charging station for the Houston Elementary School.