SeniorAge partners with multiple agencies to provide services that help ensure the safety, well-being, and independence of seniors aged 60 and over. SeniorAge does not endorse any one agency, but are here to provide access and information to the many resources available within our community.
OATS, Inc.
OATS, Inc. is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 corporation providing specialized transportation for thousands of Missourians, including the rural general public, senior citizens and people with disabilities in 87 Missouri counties. We employee more than 700 people statewide, with 24% of them Veterans.
OATS is a public transportation system that is available to everyone, regardless of age, race, gender, color, religion, or national origin, and in fact serves a wide diversity of clientele. OATS, Inc. helps people get to work, doctor appointments, essential shopping, and other places people need to go. Our services range from taking toddlers to pre-school, getting people to work each day, taking patients to life-saving medical appointment, taking people shopping so they can continue living independently and even delivering meals to home-bound seniors in some communities. We also offer contract transportation service for agencies, whether it be for one day or one year.
For more information, visit their website at www.oatstransit.org
Musgrave Foundation
Imagine being able to touch the lives of people you’ll never know 10 years… 50 years…even 100 years after your death. That is precisely what Jeannette L. Musgrave did with the formation of her Foundation in 1983. From its inception through 2016, the Foundation has awarded grants totaling more than $14.8 million to selected charities, primarily in Greene and the immediate surrounding counties in Missouri.
The main goal of the Musgrave Foundation is to support services that impact these main categories:
- Children and Senior Services
- Healthcare and Education
- Poverty, Hunger, and Homelessness
- Arts and Community Betterment
For more information, visit their website at www.musgravefoundation.org
Legal Services of Southern Missouri
Legal Services of Southern Missouri (LSSM) is one of four legal services organizations in Missouri funded primarily by the Legal Services Corporation (LSC). LSC is a private, not-for-profit corporation created by an Act of Congress to ensure low-income people have equal access to the courts nationwide.
LSSM receives financial assistance from the following sources: Legal Services Corporation, State of Missouri, Missouri Lawyer Trust Account Foundation, and local area agencies on aging. However, without the support of local private lawyers, LSSM would be unable to provide high-quality legal representation to the poor.
LSSM is not a government agency, but rather a not-for-profit organization serving only the low-income and elderly in forty-three counties across southern Missouri. LSSM never charges a fee to a client.
Our program in southern Missouri is working to expand services to meet the legal needs of children, elderly, victims of abuse, and the disabled. LSSM’s core legal services provided to the low-income and elderly are domestic/sexual violence, family, consumer, housing, public benefits and elder law.
For more information on Legal Services of Southern Missouri, visit their website at www.lsosm.org
Community Foundation of the Ozarks
The Community Foundation of the Ozarks mission is to enhance the quality of life in our region through resource development, community grantmaking, collaboration, and public leadership. CFO is a public foundation serving the Missouri Ozarks. They are dedicated to working with its donors, nonprofit partners, and affiliated community foundations in meaningful and purposeful ways.
Founded in 1973, CFO has since grown to include 49 affiliate community foundations and more than 2,600 charitable funds totaling $253 million in assets, as of June 30, 2016.
For more information on the Community Foundation of the Ozarks and its member organizations, visit their website at cfozarks.org
