Blog Category
Transportation
Wheels of Kindness: The Impact of Volunteer Transportation
May 15, 2024
New Growth Transit addresses the challenge of limited transportation choices in rural communities. With over 500,000 miles of transportation provided, the demand is huge, and volunteer drivers find meaning from their service.

Help rural healthcare. Become a HealthTran driver!
January 27, 2021
West Central Missouri Community Action Agency (West Central) and the Missouri Rural Health Association (MRHA) seek volunteer drivers to help with healthcare rides in the region. Drivers receive a mileage reimbursement of $.80 per loaded mile, volunteer insurance coverage, flexible schedules, and training as HealthTran drivers.

Doing better together drives transportation effort
June 17, 2020
Rides to Health and Wealth is a collaborative west central Missouri effort to build thriving people and places by increasing access to healthcare and community services using the HealthTran ride scheduling and resourcing platform. Rides to Health and Wealth...

Rural health network plans regional ride system
February 26, 2020
Rural Missouri health network plans regional ride system Rural communities across America know very well how stranded they are without decent transportation options. Children are not able to participate in extracurricular activities. Retirees must move away to places...