Please join Central Missouri Community Action (CMCA) for our second annual fundraising event on the Katy Trail on May 22, 2010.  Riding Out Poverty in Mid-Missouri is a unique fundraising event that will highlight five beautiful points along the Katy Trail and celebrates the efforts CMCA has undergone to eliminate poverty in Mid-Missouri.   

Riding Out Poverty is not only our major fundraiser of the year, it also serves as the capstone event to Community Action Month.  Throughout the month, CMCA will be producing press releases throughout our 8 counties, mobilizing our supporters, and putting poverty on the hearts and minds of the entire mid-Missouri region.  The bike ride will be a capstone to these efforts by creating an interaction opportunity for all of our stakeholders and serving as a point of entry for people that want to learn about our mission.

CMCA will utilize funds raised from Riding Out Poverty to support its Transformational Plan.  This plan seeks to eliminate economic insecurity in our communities.  We serve eight counties that make up mid-Missouri, and are engaging each community within our service area to develop resources that prevent poverty and transform our services into a system that helps people move beyond tomorrow, living within the confines of financial crisis, to a future where life has the endless potential of prosperity.  Your investment will help us pursue our four strategic commitments:

• Engage the community to assure that all people have their basic needs met.
• Enhance the community to assure that all individuals have lifelong learning opportunities.
• Build community capacity to enhance economic and community assets.
• Build relationships across race and class lines.