"With out donations like this, it's hard to do bathrooms and improvements like that," Crawford told the newspaper.
The MFA Oil Foundation, established in 1998, provides support to nonprofit [image-nocss] organizations that are working to improve communities where MFA Oil has a significant concentration of members and employees.
Jerry Taylor, president of MFA Oil, described the MFA Oil Foundation as "a program that allows our company to give support back to the small towns and rural communities that are the foundation of our business." He said focus for selecting grant recipients is on three areas: programs designed to build knowledge and leadership skills in rural youth; agricultural and cooperative education programs; and organizations active in addressing and solving community problems and improving the quality of life.
MFA Oil is a farmer-owned cooperative with more than 40,000 members. The company supplies fuels, lubricants, propane and tires to customers in Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Iowa. Through a subsidiary, MFA Oil operates Break Time convenience stores in Missouri and Arkansas and Jiffy Lube and Big O Tire franchises in central Missouri.
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