Long Term Disaster Recovery

Since 2017, we have been working with community leaders, government agencies and Long Term Recovery Committees (LTRC) in the region to identify unmet needs and help fill gaps in capacity and expertise needed to recover from devastating floods. With funding and support from the Center for Disaster Philanthropy and our "flood buddies" in Louisa County, Iowa, we are helping struggling rural communities across the Ozarks to survive and thrive, as they continue to find their new normal after the disaster.

VAN BUREN, MISSOURI ROADMAP TO RECOVERY

This project, funded by the Center for Disaster Philanthropy’s Midwest Early Recovery Fund in 2017-2018, supported individual and community recovery in Van Buren, Missouri and enabled Ozark Vitality to:

Identify unmet needs that were not being addressed by other disaster recovery programs or agencies
Help secure $350,000 in additional grant funding for other organizations, to build capacity for long term recovery in Carter and Ripley Counties
Begin engaging the Van Buren community to find their “new normal” after the 2017 flood

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Ozark Artisan Innovation Hub

We are working to build a regional network of individuals and resources to help artists, craft makers and innovators in the Ozarks succeed as entrepreneurs. We began this journey with a research project, funded by Delta Regional Authority (DRA), to help us better understand how to make this happen for our region.

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