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Four people stand outdoors holding a large check for $145,000 made out to Operation Homefront. The check is from the MFA Oil Charity Golf Scramble. Green trees are in the background.

MFA Oil Charity Golf Scramble and Concert Raises $1.3 Million for Operation Homefront

The cooperative adds $147,000 to its donation total through its 9th annual event in support of military families. MFA Oil announces it raised $145,000 in donations to support America’s military families during its Annual Charity Golf Scramble and Concert benefiting Operation Homefront. The event was held on June 5, 2023, […]

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MFA Foundation Gift Supports Rural Mental Health Resources

Missouri farmers and ranchers increasingly struggle with mental health challenges and access to resources. The state’s rural suicide rate is growing faster than in urban counties, increasing 78% between 2003 and 2017. With a four-year grant commitment from the MFA Foundation, University of Missouri Extension will have new avenues to […]

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Supporting Agricultural Education in Classrooms Across Missouri

As the number of American farming families shrinks, the general population’s understanding of agricultural production has declined. The Missouri Farmers Care Foundation is working to address this information gap through its Agriculture Education on the Move™ (AEOTM) program, which builds agriculture and food science literacy in third-grade students. The program’s […]

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MFA Foundation Gift Supports Rural Mental Health Resources

MFA Oil Foundation Gives More than $219,000 to Community Organizations

The MFA Oil Foundation announces it awarded $219,943 in grants to 132 nonprofit organizations during its 2022 fiscal year, which ended on Aug. 31, 2022. The grants were distributed to 108 communities throughout a seven-state region where MFA Oil Company, a farmer-owned energy-supply cooperative, operates. “Our vision is to empower […]

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MFA Oil Supports State FFA Organizations

As a farmer-owned cooperative, MFA Oil understands the need to support programs dedicated to developing future leaders in agriculture. The company has partnered with state FFA organizations in Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas and Oklahoma to sponsor opportunities for youth to pursue hands-on educational, personal development and leadership training. One of the […]

Pictured L to R: Sarah Cheesman, Operation Homefront Region 2 West Area Manager; Jon Ihler, MFA Oil President and CEO; AJ Kahn, Operation Homefront Region 2 East Area Manager; Whitney, Lyvina and Nova Alamo, active-duty military family members; and Brig Gen Robert D. Thomas, USAF, Retired, COO, Operation Homefront.

MFA Oil Raises $160,000 to Support Military Families

MFA Oil announces its Eighth Annual Charity Golf Scramble and Concert benefitting Operation Homefront raised $160,000 in donations in support of America’s military families. The event was held on June 6, 2022, in Columbia, Mo., at The Club at Old Hawthorne with more than 230 golfers. Since 2015, MFA Oil […]

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Tornado Relief

The trees were gone. Rubble was strewn everywhere. A landscape of catastrophe was all that remained of a majority of Dawson Springs, Ky. A December tornado—one of many that tore through eight states—left many residents of the small town in the western portion of the Bluegrass State homeless. Jeff Spurlin, […]

Pictured L to R: Ashley Bower, MFA Oil Senior Manager of Marketing Services; Jon Ihler, MFA Oil President and CEO; AJ Kahn, Operation Homefront Area Manager – Region 2; Jennifer Bach, MFA Oil Senior Director of Break Time Operations; and Kenny Steeves, Senior Vice President of MFA Oil Operations.

MFA Oil Raises More than $1 Million for Military Families

Donations from the Annual MFA Oil Charity Golf Scramble and Concert Provide Over $1 Million of Support for Operation Homefront Over Seven Years MFA Oil announces its Seventh Annual Charity Golf Scramble and Concert benefitting Operation Homefront raised $150,000 in donations and more than $1 million of support for America’s […]

From left to right - Don Smith, MFA Oil director of mergers and acquisitions; Rev. Stephanie Allen, of the St. Paul AME Church in Columbia, Mo.; Emily Fisher, MFA Oil mergers and acquisitions analyst; Rev. Darlene Singer Smith, presiding elder of the AME Church’s St. Louis and Columbia District; and Jon Ihler, MFA Oil president and CEO.

MFA Oil Donates Land for Relocation of Historic Church

The donation of a three-acre parcel of land in Tebbetts, Mo. may help preserve a part of the community’s cultural heritage. On May 5, MFA Oil Company transferred the deed to a strip of property along Missouri Highway 94 to African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. The land donated by MFA […]

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Giving Back – Supporting Schools and Students

Donating resources to youth and education are two of the primary ways the MFA Oil Foundation seeks to support the communities where MFA Oil does business. MFA Oil recognizes the important role of public education in building and maintaining healthy communities in the towns and cities it serves. The stronger […]

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Urban Farm to Serve Central Missouri Veterans

The Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture and Harry S. Truman Veterans’ Hospital have entered into a three-year agreement to use CCUA’s urban farm site at 1209 Smith St. in Columbia to develop a new community space for mid-Missouri veterans. Beginning in the spring of 2020, the two organizations will work […]

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