CHARITY REGISTER 2019
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The Golden Age of Giving
Written by Craig Kaminer
Powered by a booming stock market, a strong economy and a new generation of donors, charitable giving by individuals, bequests, foundations and corporations to U.S. charities surged to an estimated $410.02 billion in 2017, according to Giving USA 2018: The Annual Report on Philanthropy. While most studies place St. Louis in the top 10 philanthropic cities year after year, St. Louis hasn’t done a comprehensive study of its giving since 2012. Regardless, we have a lot to be grateful for as we rank high on studies done by the likes of Fidelity Charitable for giving in education, religion, health, social services, environment and animals. Wealthy people – on a national and local level – tend to give in different patterns than the general population, but in 2017, every nonprofit category saw significant increases except for international affairs, which fell 6.4 percent, and religion, which rose only 0.7 percent. Still, the surface numbers may hide a longer-term problem: more and more dollars are flowing into foundations and donor-advised funds, where some or all of it will be held for an extended period of time before it gets to a working nonprofit. Part of this is due to the growth of high dollar and mega-gift givers. The report reveals that for 2017, $4.1 billion in mega-gifts were made by individuals and $850 million in mega-gifts made by bequest, up from $1.495 billion in mega-gifts made by individuals and $400 million in mega-gifts made by bequest the year prior. In 2016, it took $200 million to qualify as a mega-gift; in 2017, that number jumped to $300 million—thus narrowing the range—and still the value of mega-gifts more than doubled. The names of many of those donors are familiar: Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan gave $1.9 billion to the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation; Florence Irving gave $600 million to Columbia University; Michael Dell gave a billion to his foundation; and Henry Hillman’s estate donated $800 million to the eponymous family foundation in Pittsburgh. Many of these gifts, again, are currently parked at intermediaries. The Chronicle of Philanthropy estimates that mega-gift category differently, for a total of $10.3 billion. Still, whichever numbers you accept, the dollar amount has more than doubled. Giving to foundations is up by 13.1 percent, too. At the same time, corporate giving has increased by eight percent, though as a proportion of pretax profits— which are, themselves, at near-record levels—it is
nowhere its peak. In 1986, this ratio was at two percent, but now it is less than half that, even though profits have grown almost tenfold. All of this suggests what we already know—namely, that the most affluent are doing very well, and a lion’s share of these mega-gifts are now parked in foundations… which is, you will notice, the only category of giving that went up by double digits, at a 13.1 percent increase. Additionally, gifts to public-society benefit corporations, which includes donor-advised funds, went up by 5.5 percent. While that grouping also includes United Way giving, we already know that donor-advised fund giving is growing at an accelerated rate while United Way as a field are seeing declines. The 2017 increases for donor-advised funds, therefore, are likely higher than 5.5 percent, which would be no surprise given the growth at year’s end in anticipation of changes in charitable giving deductions. The potential problem here is that United Way would generally give out the money they raised within the year, while donor-advised funds have a payout rate each year of 15 to 20 percent. And, of course, foundations pay out more in the range of five percent. Thus, the amount of money going into foundations and donor-advised funds may mitigate what nonprofits experience in their budgets relative to the numbers overall, and much of that money is still under the control of the donor, since most are living. “Donors and funders are becoming ever more sophisticated in their approaches to making gifts as they draw on the increasing availability of new data, new technology, and new ideas,” said Rachel Hutchisson, chair of The Giving Institute, and vice president of corporate citizenship and philanthropy for Blackbaud. “We are seeing innovations across the philanthropic sector that are contributing to strong growth in giving, which benefits everyone.” Perhaps the most promising trend to emerge in the last couple of years is that Gen-Xers and Millennials with the capacity for making major gifts are becoming the most significant generation of philanthropists in history. They will have both unprecedented amounts of wealth to give along with a zeal for revolutionizing philanthropy through new strategies and innovations that are shaking up the field. In other words, these next gen donors will usher in The Golden Age of Giving, so if you’re not cultivating them now you may already be late to the game.
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Personal Story: Coyvel Jackson Coyvel Jackson’s prostate was removed due to a cancerous tumor. After a follow-up with the doctor, he learned that was just the beginning. In CJ’s own words: “I knew something was off, was wrong, because I’ve been facing all kinds of issues with my body, not acting the way it normally would, I started feeling really sluggish. At that time, they did some more lab work on me, and then the conclusion was that I had cancer again. So then, my faith was really being challenged. I got two blows: Cancer is back and you’re going to have to have radiation for two months. I really didn’t want to go through with this again. If I’m living in Cape [Girardeau] and I have to get all the way to St. Louis, we’re talking travel, mileage, wear-and-tear on my car, wear-and-tear on my body… Is my job going to take care of me for over two months while I’m out of work? And so all those thoughts were crossing my mind. I’ve got a house payment, a car payment, I’ve got all this stuff going on. In one of our conferences with Dr. Gay [of Barnes Jewish Hospital], he said there was a social worker that could get us in contact with the Hope Lodge. We had never heard of it. Hearing that Hope Lodge could help us with lodging, a free place to stay, eat at, there was leisure time… Even that first day, I recognized that this was going to be all right. We are going to be good. Cancer is a game changer and if you don’t have the connections and the support, it can really be a major crippler because you have so much now you have to consider. Not only your health, but how you’re going to get through this day-byday financially, and everything else that’s required – it’s a lot. Somebody went out of their way to provide a place like this so the expenses were not going to hurt, cripple or cause further damage to me or my family. We are going to be thankful for the rest of our lives to what the Hope Lodge has done. Life is at its fullest right now. I remember the passage in John 10:10 that says, ‘A thief comes to steal, kill and destroy, but Jesus said I come so that you might have life and have it more abundantly.’ I felt like the thief did come, but guess what happened; I got life, and I got it abundantly.” Hope Lodge St. Louis saved CJ and his wife Brenda approximately $6,700 in hotel costs.
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY Who We Are: The American Cancer Society is a global grassroots force of 1.5 million volunteers dedicated to saving lives, celebrating lives, and leading the fight for a world without cancer. From breakthrough research, to free lodging near treatment, a 24/7/365 live helpline, free rides to treatment, and convening powerful activists to create awareness and impact, the Society is the only organization attacking cancer from every angle.
and Patient Navigators, providing answers and support to patients, caregivers, and health professionals throughout the cancer journey. How We Impact The Community: We help communities come together to support those affected by cancer and help with access to treatment, though our various events and services. We empower our friends and neighbors who are facing cancer through services like our 24/7 helpline and Patient Navigators. And of course, our work as activists to convene leaders, create awareness and impact, deliver breakthroughs and so on also have a direct benefit right here in our community.
What We Do: We promote healthy lifestyles to help you prevent cancer. We research cancer and its causes to find more answers and better treatments. We fight for lifesaving policy changes. We provide everything from emotional support to the latest cancer information for those who have been touched by cancer. We are committed to removing barriers to care and improving the quality of life for cancer patients and caregivers. Hope Lodge St. Louis is just one of 30 centers across the country, which provides a free home away from home for cancer patients and caregivers when their best hope for effective treatment is in another city. Not having to worry about where to stay or how to pay for it, Hope Lodge allows patients to focus on what’s most important: getting well.
How You Can Help: We couldn't do what we do without our volunteers and donors. Together, we're making a difference. Become a volunteer, make a tax-deductible donation, or participate in a fundraising event to help us save lives. We invite the community to help us make cancer patients far from home feel at home at Hope Lodge. To learn more visit Hopeishome.org. American Cancer Society 4207 Lindell Blvd St. Louis, MO 63108 Cancer.org Hopeishome.org Facebook: ACSstlouis Twitter: @ACSstlouis
Why We Are Important: When you donate to the American Cancer Society, you are investing in the only organization attacking cancer from every angle. We’re attacking cancer as activists, urging lawmakers though our Cancer Action Network and enlisting CEOs, coaches, state and local board members, young professionals and other partners to lead their community in the fight against cancer. We’re attacking with Breakthroughs, launching innovative research and developing revolutionary approaches that reduce the cancer burden for everyone. We’re attacking with Communities, getting people to their cancer treatments with Road To Recovery and Hope Lodge. We’re raising awareness and funds through experiences like Relay For Life, Coaches vs. Cancer, Champions of Hope Gala and Making Strides Against Breast Cancer. We’re attacking with Direction, empowering people with our 24/7 helpline
Executive Director: April Dzubic Board Leadership: CEOs Against Cancer of Missouri St. Louis Chapter Chair: Steve O’Loughlin, Lodging Hospitality Management Vice Chair: Jim Kavanugh, World Wide Technology Vice Chair: Dave Peacock, Schnucks St. Louis Leadership Board Chair: Lu Alleruzzo, Immunophotonics, Inc.
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ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE (ADL) Who We Are: Now 105 years old and active in the Heartland since 1958, ADL is the nation’s premier civil rights/human relations organization. Our formal mission: to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and secure justice and fair treatment to all, #FightingHateForGood. We build community, make friends and reduce bias through unique programs that empower all to understand that simply because we have bias, it doesn’t mean we are bad people. We need to be aware how that bias might negatively impact relationships we have with all people, whether friends, work colleagues or family.
extremist groups and trends. We respond to victims of hate and bias. We help shape laws protecting constitutional and civil rights. We work with students and educators to respect inclusion and challenge bias and bullying, more than 4,500 annually. We train law enforcement on extremism, terrorism, hate crime, and their biases, more than 500 annually. We never give up trying to build a better world inspired by our democratic sense of unity: There is no them – only us. How You Can Help: 1. Review our Hate Symbols Database and report a hate crime or bias incident in your area. If you “see something, say something”. 2. Engage in respectful dialogue to build understanding among people with different views. We can help create the forum. 3. Share education resources with educators and administrators at your favorite school. There are no cost options online for K-12 at www.adl.org/education. 4. Attend any of a number of learning opportunities during the year. 5. Donate annually, monthly, directly, or with planned gifts or stock transfers. Become an Ally Member and partner with us to promote respect and acceptance.
What We Do: ADL educates, advocates and works with law enforcement, responding to and challenging all forms of bias, bigotry and hate. To succeed we have many partners. The Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri History Museum, Kansas City Public Television, the St. Louis Holocaust Museum, regional police academies and many schools (public, private, parochial and charter) are our partners. Our largest education platform, the A World of Difference® Institute, supports our key bias awareness campaign for schools, No Place for Hate®. However we can do the work, we will. We love innovation. Why We Are Important: We have a distinguished histor y of reminding the world just how tenuous civil rights are and we mobilize people to engage in reasonable discourse as together we find solutions to serve our diverse society. Non-profit and non-partisan, with supporters and partners throughout the US and around the world, ADL’s work is rooted in Jewish values, putting principles over politics. We speak up for those whose voices are not always heard. One of 25 regional offices in the US, we are on the ground, organizing and galvanizing grassroots support around the most pressing issues of the day.
Anti-Defamation League 314.627.1330 Heartland.adl.org Facebook: ADL.Missouri Twitter: @ADLHeartland Karen Aroesty, Regional Director, karoesty@adl.org Tabari Coleman, Education Director, tcoleman@adl.org Megan Williams, Assistant Regional Director, mwilliams@adl.org Aaron Vickar, Chair, Regional Advisory Board
How We Impact The Community: We are activists, educators and experts. We fight all forms of hate and track
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Personal Story: Royce Martin Royce Martin’s arts story began in 2014 when he picked up his sister’s toy keyboard and began teaching himself to play piano by watching YouTube videos. That turned into his music teacher at the Grand Center Arts Academy, a past grantee of the Arts and Education Council, introducing him to Pianos for People, an organization that helped his family get a full-sized piano for their home. Royce dove headfirst into piano performance and composition and, in 2016, he won the St. Louis Teen Talent Competition – just two years after he first picked up a keyboard. The following January, Royce performed in honor of Pianos for People at the Arts and Education Council’s 2017 St. Louis Arts Awards, where he received a standing ovation for the performance of a piece he wrote. For the next year and a half, A&E funded a paid internship for Royce with Open Studio Network. Through that internship, Royce studied the business side of music and piano performance under Grammy Award winner Peter Martin and local composer Adam Maness. His mentors at Open Studio Network also guided him through the college application process and last fall, Royce started as a freshman at Berklee College of Music in Boston, one of the country’s top music conservatories. Soon after arriving on campus, Royce posted a public message on Facebook saying, “This achievement wouldn’t be possible for me without your continuous support through encouraging words, donations and honestly just the belief in my potential as an artist.”
ARTS AND EDUCATION COUNCIL
Who We Are: At the Arts and Education Council, our goal is simple – make sure our region is rich with arts and cultural experiences for all.
How You Can Help: A&E relies entirely on the generosity of people who understand the powerful impact of the arts on our community. Your gift to the Arts and Education Council pools together with thousands of others from across our region to make an even greater impact in our community than any of us can do individually. Together, we keep art happening. Young professionals can join A&E’s Young Friends of the Arts, offering discounted opportunities to explore the arts with other arts lovers while making a difference. A&E’s Muse Society, a women’s leadership giving group, provides an opportunity to connect at invitation-only gatherings with unique artistic experiences. A & E i s a l wa y s l o o ki n g f o r p a ss i o nat e a r t s supporters willing to provide their skills and expertise on either the A&E Board of Directors or the Young Friends of the Arts board. Every January, A&E hosts the St. Louis Arts Awards, a celebration of the individuals and organizations who keep art happening across our region. It is an elegant evening of cocktails and dinner, an awards presentation and awe-inspiring performances – all packed into just four hours. Proceeds benefit the Arts and Education Council.
What We Do: That’s why we invest in the people and organizations that create diverse performances, exhibitions, workshops, art education programs and so much more for 1.6 million adults and children in our community each year. It’s also why we foster the growth and impact of 21 organizations in our arts incubator, the Centene Center for the Arts, mentor the next generation of arts leaders and invest in arts entrepreneurs who have innovative ideas for St. Louis. Why We Are Important: The arts inspire our kids to be more creative thinkers, build bridges among cultures and energize our communities. They foster our economy and enrich our lives. St. Louis has one of the most vibrant arts communities in the country, generating more than $590 million annually for the local economy and attracting 11.7 million people to arts events. A region that vibrant does not happen without resources and support. How We Impact The Community: A&E invests your dollars in more than 70 arts and arts education organizations through grant opportunities and professional development and mentorship programs. A&E also operates an arts incubator in the heart of Grand Center Arts District, provides funding for exceptionally talented youth to pursue their artistic careers and much more so that our region is rich with arts and cultural experiences for all.
Arts And Education Council KeepArtHappening.org C. Brendan Johnson, A&E board chair Cynthia A. Prost, A&E president and CEO
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ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ST. LOUIS
Who We Are: Assistance League of St. Louis is a nonprofit, all-volunteer service organization whose members identify, develop, fund and implement ongoing philanthropic programs to serve specific needs of children and adults in the St. Louis community.
to eager readers through book fairs; we touched the lives of 22,400 individuals with activity kits and huggable bears and we served 1,555 individuals with one-time critical needs. And this is just some of what we did in one year. How You Can Help: Monetary donations, grants of any amount, donations of new or gently used books for all ages and donations of feminine toiletry items all make a huge difference in the lives of the people we serve.
What We Do: We have nine philanthropic programs including a shoe program; a school uniform program; an activity kit program that serves hospitals and agencies; a program that supplies first responders with teddy bears; a program that serves six shelters for women and their children; a literacy program that gives books to children and children’s libraries; an outreach program that meets emergency needs on a one-time basis; a scholarship program that helps women in transition to further their education and a program that gives items we cannot use or sell in our resale shop to other nonprofits who give them to people in need.
Assistance League of St. Louis 30 Henry Avenue Ellisville, MO 63011 636.227.6200 Alstl.org Facebook: Assistance-League-of-St-Louis Instagram: assistanceleaguestl Board of Directors: Roxie Randolph, President Vicki Merz, VP Marketing Jane Harbron, President-Elect Sandy Thal, VP Membership Vicki Kearney, VP Finance Pat Ward, VP Education Pam Bogosian, VP Philanthropic Programs Barb Stevens, VP Strategic Plan Sue Peters, VP Fund Development Marita Perlak, Secretary
Why We Are Important: Last fiscal year, we served more than 44,000 people in our community, donating 80,000 volunteer hours. We have no paid personnel. How We Impact The Community: In 2017-18, we provided 7,834 elementary school children with two sets of new uniforms, socks, underwear, dental hygiene kits and an ageappropriate book; 3,700 children with new shoes and socks; served 2,987 women in four area shelters and two agencies, as well as sexual assault survivors. We provided 12,000 books
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BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST. LOUIS - Board Roster - 2018 Mary M. Bonacorsi, Chair Larry E. Parres, Vice Chair Suzie Spence, Vice Chair Development Keith Lueking, Treasurer David Aplington, Gregg Berdy, M.D., Lorenzo M. Boyd, Mark Bulanda, Jen Call, Mark Darrell, Brian R. Dobbins, John Farmer, Daniel S. Farrell, Crystal Gale, Ph.D., Clive Grannum, Peggy Guest, Ph.D., Leah Reynolds Harris, Mike Hawkins, Laralisa Tasha Hovland, Sean Joe, Ph.D., Peter Lazaroff, John Meara, John Moroney, Chonda Nwamu, Emily Pitts, David Queller, Michele Sowers, Mark Stallion, Gene R. Todd, Dave Touchette, A. Keith Turner, T. William White, Nancy Wolfe, Evan Fowler, Friends Liaison CABINET OF LIFE TRUSTEES George E. Bailey, John B. Biggs, Jr., Steve Bloom, Immediate Past Chair, Donald L. Bryant, Jim Butler, Robert W. Fulstone, Jerry Garbutt, Thomas J. Kavanaugh, Ken Kotiza, Karen M. Luebbert, Ph.D., Vernon J. Remiger, George Scherer, Joan E. Silber, Ph.D., Donald M. Suggs, Barrett Upchurch
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST. LOUIS Who We Are: For more than fifty years, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis (BGCSTL), a leading youth service provider in the St. Louis region, has been providing after school, summer, teen and sports programs for youth ages 6-18. The Clubs are open during hours that kids are most likely to need a safe place to go — after school and during summer.
• Table For Four - Proceeds support girls programs, promotes and teaches teach young women ages 6 to 18 about health, fitness, self-esteem and good decision-making • Friends of the Club, Casino Night - Proceeds support after school programs • Jim Butler Golf Tournament - Proceeds designated to vital Health & Life Skills programs • Great Futures Gala - Focuses on the Youth of the Year process and the great futures our kids attain through their Club experiences • Women’s Leadership Circle - serves to connect area women business and community leaders to the mission and vision of the Boys & Girls Clubs • Friends of the Club – A young professionals group invested in supporting St. Louis youth
What We Do: The mission of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis (BGCSTL) is to inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens. Why We Are Important: Boys & Girls Clubs programs have taken members from the Clubhouse to the White House; from the games room to the corporate board room; from the high school orchestra to Carnegie Hall. Nationally recognized programs address today’s most pressing youth issues, teaching young people the skills they need to succeed in life. It is our hope that every kid who comes through our doors, graduates from high school with a plan for their future! Membership fees are kept low to allow any child the opportunity to join and includes access to after school homework assistance, tutoring, college and career planning, recreational activities, access to transportation, free dental and vision care as well as healthy meals in a safe, supportive learning environment.
Join the Boys & Girls Clubs movement today! 314.335.8000 Bgcstl.org Flint W. Fowler, Ph.D Executive Director LOCATIONS: Administrative Offices 2901 North Grand Avenue St. Louis, MO 63107 phone: 314.335.8000 | fax: 314.652.7509
How We Impact The Community: Through donations, volunteer assistance and mentor programs, BGCSTL is impacting the lives of our community’s youth: • 99% of teens expect to complete high school • 89% of teens expect to go on to post-secondary education • 93% of Club members maintained on-time grade progression • 97% of Club members abstained from cigarette smoking • 82% abstained from marijuana use • 65% abstained from sexual activity • 92% abstained from drinking
Adams Park Club 4317 Vista Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110 314.633.7900 BE GREAT: GRADUATE at Normandy High School 6701 St. Charles Rock Rd., 63121 636.675.9526 BE GREAT: GRADUATE at Roosevelt High School 3230 Hartford Street St. Louis, MO 63118 314.335.8143
How You Can Help: From one time to ongoing taxdeductible gifts to supporting one of our many events, or joining one of our affinity groups, there’s always a way to provide great futures to St. Louis youth! • Annual Gifts - support the operations and ongoing programs • Matching Gifts - Increase the impact of your gift through your company’s matching gift programs
Ferguson Middle School Club 701 January Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63135 314.335.8330
Grannemann Elem. School Club 2324 Redman Road, St. Louis, MO 63136 314.335.8350 Herbert Hoover Club 2901 North Grand Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63107 314.335.8000 Lee Hamilton Elementary School Club 401 Powell Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63135 314.335.8340 O’Fallon Park Club 4343 West Florissant St. Louis, MO 63115 314.932.1371 Riverview Gardens Club 174 Shepley Drive St. Louis, MO 63137 314.335.8275 Southeast Middle School Club 918 Prigge Road, St. Louis, MO 63138 314.953.7795
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BUILDING FUTURES Who We Are: Since we began Building Futures seven years ago we have seen a decrease in the funding of public education in the City of St. Louis. As a result, the quality of the education of girls and boys from economically disadvantaged, underserved and undervalued neighborhoods in St. Louis has declined. These young people are not able to acquire the education needed to succeed in the 21st century. Building Futures' mission is to supplement their education by teaching skills that are needed to thrive as a student, employee, spouse, family member and community member.
Why We Are Important: We deeply believe providing quality education to economically disadvantaged girls and boys is an important objective and the responsibility of our community. Building Futures supplements the education of young people by teaching skills that are needed to thrive as a student, employee, spouse, family member and community member. How We Impact The Community: During this year more than 1,000 girls and boys will have attended Building Futures classes, either at their school or the Building Futures location one block East of Crown Candy in Old North St. Louis. This coming year we plan to reach 400 more young people.
What We Do: Building Futures students learn problem solving , critical thinking , and communication skills through hands on experiential learning. They learn by designing and then building solutions to real world problems. Design is taught by sketching , freehand drawing, model making and computerized 3-D modeling. They learn to build by using both hand and power woodworking tools. They work as part of a team and learn STEAM–Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics. Building Futures introduces students to these skills at an early stage in their development, when life-long aspirations and goals are being formed. They are taught by caring professional adults who want to see them thrive. (There is a serious shortage of skilled workers in the building trades, which we hope our efforts will help alleviate.) Please visit our web site, building-futures. org, for more information. Building Futures provides year-round free Saturday workshops which are currently attended by K-12 students from 24 different schools in the St. Louis area. Five days a week we teach in two charter schools and seven public schools. Four weeks in the summer we provide daily summer school programs for Kennard/Mallinckrodt Elementary Schools and Jennings' Fairview Elementary school. In addition, we provide summer camps for the Old North neighborhood youth.
How You Can Help: Donations play a key role in helping us provide free workshops for students. From general workshop upkeep to providing fruit and beverages for the students, we greatly appreciate any size donation. A little bit can go a long way. Building Futures 2720 N. 13th St. St. Louis, MO 63106 314.241.7222 Building-futures.org Board Of Directors, Executive Committee Holston Black Karl Grice Gay Lorberbaum Ken Kranzberg Jay Reeves Susan J. Reid
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Personal Stories “We were able to purchase a bed for a student with stress and sleep deprivation induced seizures. He was missing school due to the seizures and being sent home. He was previously sharing an air mattress with a sibling. He has had an entire week in school without a seizure and grandma reports it had made a huge difference for him and the family.” “Two students were found hiding in the school bathroom during lunch. They didn’t have any food or money for lunch, and since their lunch balances were overdue, they had been cut off. These boys would rather hide in the bathroom than sit with their peers in the cafeteria with no food to eat. Upon discovery, Care to Learn paid the students’ lunch balances, and installed a food cabinet in the high school. Now, anytime, no questions asked, high school students can discretely grab food whenever they need.”
CARE TO LEARN Who We Are: There were many stories about under-resourced children who had to share a toothbrush, a fifth-grade boy who was being made fun of because he had to wear his mother’s jeans and teenage girls missing school because of the lack of personal hygiene products. No child should suffer physically or emotionally due to lack of food, access to medical, dental or mental health care, or hygiene issues. In 2007, a fund was established to meet the emergent needs of students in the areas of health, hunger and hygiene, and Care to Learn was born. As communities saw the impact of the model, Care to Learn expanded to help students throughout Missouri. Today, Care to Learn Chapters are assisting under-resourced kids in 34 school districts across the state. In the St. Louis region, Chapters are established in Bayless, Hazelwood, St. Charles, Warrenton and Wright City school districts- and your help is needed to meet the growing needs of local students.
How We Impact The Community: One in five Missouri children are living in poverty (287,081). Under-resourced students are four times more likely to miss school. By the end of fifth grade, low-income students may be 2 ½ years behind their peers academically. Now, the highest-scoring individuals among low-income populations are less likely to go college, than the lowest-scoring individuals among high-income populations. We can do better. Each high school drop out costs taxpayers an average of $292K in lost taxes and services provided. By helping keep students in school, we are impacting the lives of students and making an economic impact in Missouri. Since 2007, Care to Learn has helped students over 900,000 times. How You Can Help: Care to Learn works with community partners, volunteers, and service providers to stretch the resources provided by our donors to serve the greatest number of students possible. We need your help to meet the growing demand for services. Help make a positive impact by donating, providing a monthly gift, joining the “Friends of Care to Learn,” hosting a “friendraiser” or sponsoring or attending an event. Spread the word by talking with local teachers and schools about how Care to Learn can help your students. You can donate online or sign up for the email newsletter at caretolearn.org. Please follow us on social media to hear about the impact and upcoming events.
What We Do: Care to Learn provides immediate funding to meet emergent health, hunger and hygiene needs so every student can be successful in school. We provide the things that stand between children and belonging; basic unmet needs that cause pain and embarrassment – a lice kit, an asthma inhaler, a coat, deodorant, breakfast and so much more. Why We Are Important: Education is one of the most critical components in moving out of poverty. If students cannot see the board, they struggle to learn. If kids are hungry, they are distracted and unable to focus. If a child has no clean clothes and is itching from bed bug bites, how can they fit in and concentrate in class? Care to Learn provides a unique model that relieves this burden on students with dignity and discretion. Confidentiality is paramount. Care to Learn does not feature any students served in marketing materials, so kids can focus on being a kid and put shame and stigma behind. There is no red tape for school staff, allowing educators to focus on teaching-- backed by the support of the surrounding community. Care to Learn serves the entire school district, ensuring students within all schools have access to meet their basic needs. • 93% of school district faculty and staff would recommend starting a Care to Learn Chapter to other school districts • 90% of school district faculty and staff are very satisfied with the ability of their Care to Learn Chapter to meet their students’ health, hunger and hygiene needs • In the Greater St. Louis Region, Care to Learn currently operates in five school districts, encompassing 56 schools and 29,500 total students
Care to Learn – Greater St. Louis Region P.O. Box 21784 St. Louis, MO 63139 314.650.3820 Caretolearn.org Facebook: Caretolearngreaterstlouis Twitter: @CTL_STL Instagram: instagram.com/caretolearnstl Annie Mayrose, Greater St. Louis Region Director, amayrose@caretolearn.org Linda Ramey-Greiwe, Executive Director lrameygreiwe@caretolearn.org St. Louis Advisory Board Members: Chair: Donn Sorensen, Vice Chair: Scott Rozier, Joe Buck, Shelley Cade, Lisa Carnahan, Sanaz Collins, Andy Cross, Jim Edmonds, Josh Ferguson , Bruce Gibbs , Eric Heckman, Jessica Herschend, Brett Hull , Mike Kelley, Jackie Joyner-Kersee , Kelly Metcalf , Don Musick, III, Steven Ponciroli, Christian Prada, Mike Rogers, Feliz Tovar, Loren Wims, Heather Wood, Laura Chauvin & Doug Pitt, Ex-Officio
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CCDI
Who We Are: CCDI stands for Construction Career Development Initiative. CCDI was founded by Clayco in 2015 in response to the aftermath in Ferguson, Missouri to provide a program for selected young adults in North County to help them overcome barriers to success, pair them in long-term one-on-one mentorship, offer financial support, and create opportunities for job placement. Clayco’s vision and ultimate goal with CCDI is to support workforce diversity and bridge the gap in workforce development. Clayco realized this task could not be completed alone and that is why this initiative has grown over the past three years to include many partnerships in the St. Louis community with school districts, local leaders and contractors and subcontractors. Together, we can build the foundation to change.
promising futures. CCDI is also looking to help those in the St. Louis community who are in underemployed jobs and ready for an opportunity to begin a career that will provide living wages, benefits, and long-term sustainability. How You Can Help: From industry leaders to small business owners, we are always looking for individuals who are passionate about mentoring and preparing the future workforce with knowledge and skills to be successful. Our partnerships with several St. Louis school districts, allow us to bring in motivational and knowledgeable industry speakers to the high schools. We have multiple opportunities if you are interested in being a part of our Art & Science Day events to help educate hundreds of students about careers in construction. CCDI is actively looking for partners who can provide internship experience or have the capacity to hire our CCDI graduate students. From individual donations to corporate sponsorships, CCDI needs your support to continue to build the foundation for change. Let us know how you’d like to help! If you are interested in supporting the CCDI program, please visit www.ccdi.org. To learn more about how you can get involved or become a mentor, contact Rachel Boemer at 314.592.5667 or by email at rachelboemer@ccdi.org. Also coming up this spring, in conjunction with American Graduate at the Nine Network, CCDI will be hosting St. Louis’s first Signing Day event to celebrate our graduates all across the area who are entering into the workforce. If you are interested in being a part of this event, please contact Rachel Boemer.
What We Do: CCDI’s mission is to bring diversity to the Design and Construction industry by mentoring and exposing minority, underrepresented and under employed men and women to career development in construction. Our guiding principles include: One-on-one mentorship, raising awareness for construction opportunities, spread knowledge about the industry and provide life skills training needed to succeed, assist with job placement, and encourage young adults to be lifelong learners. Why We Are Important: Nationwide the construction industry is thriving , but as baby boomers continue to retire, the gap in finding qualified workers to hire continues to increase. Over the past few decades, our society has moved away from the idea of going into a skilled trade as a successful career path as the rise in higher education has become a more popular choice. One of our many goals within CCDI is to help change the stigma of skilled trade careers by cultivating renewed interest in apprenticeship programs and vocational schools.
CCDI Inc. 2199 Innerbelt Business Center Drive St. Louis, Missouri 63114 Rachel Boemer, CCDI Program Manager RachelBoemer@ccdi.org 314.592.5667 CCDI.org Facebook: ccdicommunity Linked In: ccdicommunity Twitter: @ccdicommunity Instagram: @ccdicommunity Vimeo: ccdicommunity
How We Impact The Community: We work closely with multiple school districts in North County and our vision is that through these relationships, CCDI students will learn about design and construction, receive exposure to job opportunities in the industry and create career paths for themselves, opportunities for college scholarships and
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CITY ACADEMY
Who We Are: City Academy is the only private, independent elementary school in St. Louis and the state of Missouri providing scholarship support to all students. Founded in 1999 by Don Danforth and Duncan Marshall, the school is located in St. Louis City’s Penrose neighborhood. City Academy serves children, families and the community through exceptional education and bold expectations that empower children to overcome barriers. We believe a family’s geographic location and income should never be barriers to accessing high quality education.
College program. Through the success of this program, nearly one-hundred percent of our alumni attend college. How We Impact The Community: We are transforming St. Louis through education equity, providing highquality education to children regardless of their family’s income or geographic location. Our new Early Childhood Center allows us to provide exceptional education to children at a young age and transform even more lives in our community. Because of our emphasis on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, math) many of our 199 alumni are pursuing careers in the fields of science, engineering, and technology.
What We Do: City Academy transforms children, families and our community through exceptional education and bold expectations that empower children to overcome barriers. We provide high-quality education to children age 4 through 6th grade. In the fall of 2019, we will open a classroom for three-year-old children. One hundred percent of our students receive scholarships. Scholars receive tuition support through generous donations by both individual donors and foundations. Tuition is based on the family’s income and varies by family.
How You Can Help: All 202 students receive scholarships through community support. You can give online at Cityacademyschool.org or contact us at 314.382.0085. We are always looking for volunteers to read to students in the library, and to tutor and mentor scholars. City Academy 4175 North Kingshighway Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63115 314.382.0085 info@cityacademyschool.org CityAcademySchool.org Facebook: cityacademystl Instagram: cityacademystl Twitter: @CityAcademy LinkedIn.com: City Academy
Why We Are Important: Through exceptional education and our new Early Childhood Center, we are transforming the lives of children and their families. Our emphasis on STEAM (science, technolog y, engineering , art, math) fosters a love of these subjects in our students and encourages them to enter the fields of science, technology, and engineering. In the past three years, eighty-four percent of our graduates have matriculated into private, secondary schools and receive significant scholarships. We also provide support to our alumni through our partnership with Washington University’s Strive for
President and Co-Founder: Don Danforth Principal: Milton Mitchell
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COCA – CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS
Who We Are: COCA is a national leader in innovative ar ts e ducation and we provide mean ing f u l ar ts experiences in our own studios, gallery and theatres as well as in schools, community centers and corporate settings in order to build a vibrant St. Louis that is creative, connected and inclusive.
by providing nearly $1 million annually in scholarships, support services and art programs both in our studios and in classrooms around St. Louis. How You Can Help: COCA welcomes financial support at all levels. Currently, we are approaching the culmination of Create Our Future – a $45 million effort to transform our University City campus and build our endowment and reserves – and we are seeking supporters to help us reach the finish line. For annual support, COCA relies upon the generosity of The Richard Baron Leadership Circle (RBLC). Named for COCA’s founder, the RBLC is a visionary group of COCA’s most generous supporters committed to helping us accomplish our mission. The COCA Annual Fund is an important group of supporters who are invested in making the arts central to life in St. Louis. Plus, there are countless opportunities to volunteer at COCA to support the organization with time and talent!
What We Do: With a mission to enrich lives and build community through the arts, every year COCA serves 50,000 people of all ages and skill levels, from enthusiastic amateurs to emerging professionals—all taught by a faculty of distinguished arts educators. Through dance, vocal music, theatre, art and design, and beyond, we nurture the artistic and creative potential in our students – and our community. Why We Are Important: COCA changes the way that people approach the world. Human creativity is the ultimate competitive advantage, and the arts provide some of the most powerful methods to develop individuals who are creative, collaborative, confident and critical thinkers. COCA also serves as a bridge to connect people divided by income, race, ideas, or geography. Our University City home sits at a literal crossroads, between St. Louis City and County and between extremely low-income communities and highly affluent neighborhoods, which allows us to welcome a diverse student base.
COCA – Center of Creative Arts 524 Trinity Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63130 314.725.6555 Cocastl.org Facebook: cocastl Instagram: @cocastlouis Twitter: @cocastl Kelly Pollock, COCA Executive Director Jesse Hunter, COCA Board President, Executive Vice President at Centene Corporation Pam Mandelker, Director of Advancement
How We Impact the Community: Central to COCA’s values is the belief that everyone, regardless of financial means, should have access to the arts. We accomplish this
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FOREST PARK FOREVER Who We Are: Founded in 1986, Forest Park Forever is a private nonprofit conservancy that works in partnership with the City of St. Louis to restore, maintain and sustain Forest Park as one of America's great urban public parks, now and forever.
few. Facilities such as the Dennis & Judith Jones Visitor and Education Center now welcome millions of guests, and the Park is active again with both solitary and team recreation. Widely considered the region’s greatest civic treasure, Forest Park hosts more than 13 million annual visitors, from St. Louis and around the world. Forest Park Forever works hard to provide a beautiful, welcoming, safe and fun place for visitors to gather — now and forever.
What We Do: Forest Park Forever maintains Forest Park with the City of St. Louis; raises funds for and helps manage capital restoration projects; delivers experiential educational opportunities to teachers, students and adults; and provides information and guides for the Park’s 13 million annual visitors.
How You Can Help: Not part of the region’s ZooMuseum Tax district, Forest Park Forever is supported by private donations from throughout the community, including its 8,000 members, more than 1,500 volunteers and many leading community and corporate partners. Forest Park Forever also relies on a dedicated group of volunteers to help carry out its mission. Now is the perfect time to become a Forest Park Forever member; those interested in joining our Leffingwell Society — Forest Park Forever’s leadership giving group — earn special benefits, including invitations to unique and intimate events held here in the Park. Volunteer opportunities are available in visitor services, administration, special events, horticulture and gardening.
Why We Are Important: The work Forest Park Forever is doing in partnership with the City of St. Louis has never been more critical. We are preserving the remarkable restoration gains made in Forest Park during recent decades; tackling the next phase of urgent capital improvement projects in the Park; caring daily for the Park’s landscapes and hardscapes; and building the endowment necessary to ensure that Forest Park remains a civic treasure for generations to come. How We Impact The Community: At 1,300 acres, Forest Park is one of the largest parks set in an urban environment in the U.S., surpassing New York's Central Park by 500 acres. Much like other parks in urban cores around the country, heavy use — combined with decades of deferred maintenance — took their toll; by the 1980s, Forest Park was in an alarming state of decline. Forest Park Forever, in partnership with the City of St. Louis, has worked to reverse this downward trend and make Forest Park a premier American urban park once again. Forest Park Forever has led projects bringing back the most iconic areas of the Park — the Emerson Grand Basin, the Jewel Box and the World’s Fair Pavilion, just to name a
Forest Park Forever The Dennis & Judith Jones Visitor and Education Center 5595 Grand Drive in Forest Park St. Louis, MO 63112 314.367.7275 Forestparkforever.org Facebook: forestparkforever Instagram: @forestparkforever Twitter: @forestpark4ever Lesley S. Hoffarth, P.E., President and Executive Director Lawrence E. Thomas, Chairman, Board of Directors
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FOSTER & ADOPTIVE CARE COALITION Who We Are: The Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition began in 1989 as an informal network of foster care professionals seeking a solution to a common problem – finding foster parents for the growing number of children in State custody. Since then, we have grown and developed – creating programs to address the most pressing issues in child welfare. Today, the Coalition serves 14 counties in the St. Louis region. Our vision is “For Every Child…A Place to Call Home.” The New York Times and TIME Magazine have both featured our groundbreaking work, and more than a dozen sites around the country replicate our recruitment programs.
How We Impact the Community: In Metro St. Louis, there are more than 4,300 children in foster care and more than 700 of them are waiting for a forever family. Many children wait in a residential facility for years (often becoming institutionalized), until a family becomes available. Last year, more than 400 foster youth (ages 18-21) aged out of the foster care system with no permanent family. According to statistics collected by the Jim Casey Youth Initiative, these youth will face a lifetime of difficulties: • 1 in 5 will become homeless after age 18 • Just 50% will be employed by age 24 • Less than 3% will earn a college degree • 74% of young women will be pregnant by age 21
What We Do: The Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition has two main purposes: to find forever families for children in foster care and to provide critical support services to them and the families who care for them. We do this through a variety of programs, each one created to fill gaps in community services. Our main Recruitment programs include: • Extreme Recruitment® - serves youth for whom traditional recruitment methods have failed, typically the hardest-to-place children (older youth, sibling groups and those with emotional, behavioral, or developmental concerns) • 30 Days to Family® - works with children just entering care to match them with safe, appropriate family members in just 30 days • A Place to Call Home - features children available for adoption on KSDK 5 On Your Side • Support programs include: • Educational Advocacy – helps families navigate enrollment, suspensions, and all issues that arise at school • Family Works – provides 24/7 crisis intervention to help families deal with tough situations • Parent Training - prepares families to be licensed foster parents and provides ongoing support
In addition, the opioid epidemic has created a need for even more foster parents because hundreds more children have come into care. How You Can Help: In addition to financial support, the Coalition depends upon hundreds of volunteers who help in ReFresh and ReSource, with the Cinderella Project, with special events like Hope in a Handbag and A Sizzling Celebration, and in the office. During the holiday season, thousands of Little Wishes are generously granted by the public and Birthday Buddies provide birthday presents year-round to children in care. Volunteers also hold special events and clothing drives. We collect hundreds of backpacks filled with age-appropriate school supplies that are given to children in foster care so they can begin the school year fully prepared. Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition 1750 S. Brentwood Blvd., Suite 210 St. Louis, MO 63144 314.367.8373 Foster-adopt.org Facebook: fosteradopt Instagram: @foster.adopt Twitter: @fosteradopt
Why We Are Important: The Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition works to find and train forever families for children in foster care to help secure a stable, happy future for them.
Melanie Scheetz, Executive Director
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GIVABLE Who We Are: Givable is a giving platform that inspires local, daily and collective giving. Our mission is to create an engaged and informed community of lifelong givers.
Personal Stories David Sanders knows first hand the impact Aim High-St Louis has. He was a middle school student there, and now as a 30 year-old teacher living in Charlotte NC, he’s come back to St. Louis nine summers in a row to teach science. And Givable is part of his morning routine with his ninth grade class. "Kids don’t know how they can make a difference,” says Sanders. "Givable is a tool for them to get in the habit and knowing what is going on in the community and it teaches them empathy." One hundred ninth grade Aim High-St. Louis students used Givable last summer, 25 of them at the John Burroughs School campus where Sanders taught. Aim High is a tuition-free personal and academic enrichment program for middle school students grades six through nine, most of whom come from challenging circumstances or environments. The program is a five week summer academic enrichment program, with almost 500 students participating overall. Sanders says Givable allows him to dive into some of the issues that students didn’t know about, like ALS and Animal Rights Awareness Day. “Learning about kill and no-kill shelters was very moving for them.” The ninth graders gave more than $1,000 this summer to local nonprofits through the generous underwriting of our Givable donors. And more than just the financial donation, Sanders says his students are learning that there are others going through similar issues, and that both financial support and volunteering can make a real difference. “Getting ninth graders to focus can be a challenge,” Sanders explains. “But when I tell them about the impact they are making through Givable, they pay attention.” For a teenager, that is a huge compliment. He recalls that the most profound moment came one day when he told the class how their giving is making a difference, there was silence, and the entire group erupted in applause.
What We Do: When you sig n up for a monthly subscription with Givable, you commit to a certain dollar amount and then you receive an email Monday through Friday highlighting an issue (health, homelessness, education, animal welfare, etc). You have a choice between two local non-profits. If you don’t like one of the daily choices, you can roll your money over to the next giving day. Why We Are Important: Our hope at Givable is to allow everyone to be a philanthropist. The amount of the donation doesn’t matter. We encourage giving at all levels. How We Impact The Community: In addition to creating lifelong giving opportunities for individuals, businesses and organizations, even students are using Givable. In 2018, about 500 eight and ninth grade students used Givable in their classroom. Our hope with students is to inspire giving and inspire conversations around giving and community. How You Can Help: Sign up for Givable and be a part of your local giving community. Go to Givable.org to create an account. You can also donate to underwrite the school program by emailing us at stl@givable.org Givable Givable.org Facebook: Givablecity Instagram: @Givablecity Twitter: @Givablecity Board members: Kathy Osborn, Brad Bishop, Jeff Coen, Sarah Luem, Ericka Zoll, Rob Bertman, Michael Staenberg, Brian Mathews
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GRAND CENTER INC. Who We Are: Since our beginning in 1980, Grand Center Inc. has worked to establish and grow Grand Center Arts District – St. Louis’s epicenter for the arts with more than 60 arts organizations and several restaurants and businesses that call the district their home. Grand Center Arts District is one of this nation’s greatest cultural cities, and one of the finest collections of arts and cultural resources co-located in one neighborhood.
How You Can Help: Cities need places where art is important, and where creative people are valued and celebrated. They need places where the community can come together in all its richness and diversity – to reach across genres and generations and barriers to create something wholly new. They need a place where people can celebrate together. In St. Louis, Grand Center Arts District is that place! And we need you as our partner as we create a place of access and equity. With your generous support, we will continue to create vibrancy in the district, connecting our 60+ arts organizations to the public and develop strategies to build economic development. Please consider a donation to Grand Center Inc. today!
What We Do: Grand Center Inc. works to connect the district’s great organizations with one another in a beautiful urban setting that invites people to come and discover new cultural experiences. We lead physical investments to enhance the area’s ongoing development, and bring it all closer to St. Louis residents and visitors alike through marketing, placemaking, and programming to create new opportunities to connect people with art—and with each other.
Grand Center Inc. 3526 Washington Avenue St. Louis, MO 63103 Grandcenter.org 314.289.1500 Facebook: grandcenterinc Twitter: @GrandCenter Instagram: grandcenterartdistrict #grandcenterartsdistrict
Why We Are Important: Grand Center Inc. works every day to make Grand Center Arts District a vibrant, inspiring destination where a diverse array of arts, music, education and media can flourish together, and where world-class arts institutions are joined by a growing range of emerging, home-grown talent and opportunity. Our leadership is needed to ensure the district’s forward momentum and to promote the special connections that happen when so many extraordinary assets come together in one place.
Board Members: Karin M. Hagaman, President and CEO Tom Voss, Chairman, Board of Directors Lisa Baudendistel-Suntrup, Marie-Hélène Bernard, Michael Blatz, Nancy Brickhouse, Joseph Conran, Paul DeMerath, Tim Eby, John E. Galmiche III, Thomas F. George, David Heimbürger*, Jeffery W. Kelley, Missy Kelley, Douglas L. Kelly, Kenneth Kranzberg, Don G. Lents, Anthony McBride, Michael McMillan, Lisa Melandri, Michael F. Neidorff, Julie B. Noonan, Mark O’Bryan, Emily Rauh Pulitzer, David J. Rabe, Kathleen M. Ratcliffe, Paul K. Reuter, Evans Richardson, Thad Simons, Tommy Simons, Cara Starke, Donald M. Suggs, Tom Voss, Laura Vowell, Dwaun Warmack, Richard Winter, John Wolf*, John J. Wuest. emeritus Richard Gaddes
How We Impact The Community: This year, GCI launched a new strategic plan that will take the vision of Grand Center Arts District to the next level to provide greater access and equity in the district. Two major projects include; a new wayfinding project aimed at helping pedestrians and vehicles find the most efficient routes to their destinations and provide information on events and activities in the district. The second project GCI will implement is a co-working space facility for creative entrepreneurs that will equip startups with the resources needed to accelerate their businesses while creating jobs and economic prosperity in the district.
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Personal Stories: Ella, John Burroughs School The Wednesday our class went to the St. Louis Holocaust Museum, I woke up feeling grateful that the day would serve as a break from pop quizzes, note-taking , and cramming for algebra midterms. One hundred 15-yearolds arranged ourselves into familiar social factions, filling three groaning buses with absent-minded chatter. In a word, it was normal; the kind of morning I would never remember if it weren’t for the day that followed. I didn’t even realize how uneasy I felt until our tour guide asked the group if we were nervous. Not one person raised their hand. The nerves bubbling up inside me were so turbulent that the idea of no one else feeling nervous was laughable. I knew I wasn’t the only liar in the room. I was nervous that I would say the wrong thing at the wrong time and nervous that it was wrong for me to be nervous at all. The deaths of millions of people is nearly impossible to wrap your brain around, which makes it hard to hear – and even harder to talk – about. I think that’s why I watched in awe as a Holocaust survivor spoke to 100 adolescents and countless additional adults about this very subject. Without any form of notes or outline, this woman spoke to us candidly and openly about the horrors she experienced first-hand, while still managing to be one of the most eloquent speakers I’ve ever heard. While her personal story provided this era with a direct element of tangibility, it also forced us all to remember that not one survivor or witness of the Holocaust can ever act as a spokesperson for the 11 million voices that the post-Holocaust world will never hear from. While we may often picture them among a sea of indecipherable skeletal bodies and corpses, each one of these voices represents a life, a family, and a brilliant mind of which the world was robbed.
Around every corner of the museum was another concentrated dose of what it was like to be a Jew living in Germany during the Holocaust. From the despicable instances of propaganda spewed out by the German government to poignant images of the mass torment endured by Jews in concentration camps, this museum made the Holocaust much more palpable to a 15-year-old who was born in a different millennium than the one in which the largest hate crime in history occurred. This, I found, was the greatest value of experiencing the Holocaust Museum: It disallowed me to distance myself from this great hate crime and forced me to instead bear witness. As young people, we are too easily detached from a history that is on our shoulders as much as anyone else’s. With anti-Semitic incidents and hate crimes on the rise worldwide, this seemingly harmless mindset of forgetting the past in order to “move forward” is, in fact, dangerous and hints at the recurrence of darker times. If anything, educating today’s youth about the horrific events of the Holocaust is more important now than ever, as we are the last generation who will ever have the opportunity to speak with a Holocaust survivor. I woke up feeling grateful for a break from a typical school day and came home grateful for the life-altering experience with which my fellow ninth-graders and I were provided. The Holocaust Museum and Learning Center will play an imperative role in altering the perspectives of generations to come, and I hope it will continue to expand the public’s understanding of the Holocaust. Rather than dissociating ourselves from the past, it is everyone’s responsibility to understand the relevance of the Holocaust. Only then can we truly “move forward” to a world without streets littered with hate crimes.
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM AND LEARNING CENTER
Who We Are: The Holocaust Museum and Learning Center (HMLC) is a department of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis. Since 1995, HMLC has welcomed approximately a halfmillion students and other visitors from the St. Louis region, throughout the United States, and from around the world.
How We Impact the Community: Approximately 30,000 visitors come to the museum annually, and 20,000 of those are middle and high school students from throughout the region. We talk about how if more people would have taken a stand during the Holocaust perhaps it wouldn’t have happened. We inspire visitors to not stand idly by when they see social injustice occur. Each of us can make a difference, whether it be on the playground or halfway around the world.
What We Do: The HMLC provides a chronological history of the Holocaust augmented with personal testimonies by Holocaust survivors and witnesses who immigrated to St. Louis. Photographs, artifacts, text panels, and audio-visual displays guide visitors through pre-World War II Jewish life in Europe, the rise of Nazism, events leading up to and including the Holocaust between 1933-1945, and post-War events. Those events include the Nuremberg Trials, life in displacedpersons camps, the birth of Israel, and survivors’ “return to life” in the St. Louis region. The newest exhibition entitled “Change Begins With Me” uses contemporary examples of bias, discrimination, and genocide to show that the lessons of the Holocaust are not yet learned.
How You Can Help: HMLC is a free museum. All of our programs, special exhibitions, lectures, and film series are also all free of charge. It is through the generosity of our donors that we are able to remain free and open for all to learn about this tragic event in history and connect the dots to events that are happening in our world today. Holocaust Museum and Learning Center In Memory of Gloria M. Goldstein 12 Millstone Campus Drive St. Louis, MO 63146 314.442.3715 HMLC.org Facebook: Holocaust Museum & Learning Center-St. Louis
Why We Are Important: St. Louis is only one of approximately 20 communities in the United States that has a Holocaust museum. So not everyone has such access to this priceless educational resource. It is important to study history or we are doomed to repeat it. Our mission is to teach the history and lessons of the Holocaust inspiring all people to confront hatred, promote human dignity, and prevent genocide.
Jean Cavender, Director
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HOME WORKS!
Who We Are: HOME WORKS! The Teacher Home Visit Program partners families and teachers for children’s success. We are committed to improving the academic achievement, attendance, classroom behavior, and homework completion of struggling students to help give them a chance in life. In the 2018-2019 school year, HOME WORKS! is in 23 early childhood, elementary, middle, and high schools in eight urban, suburban, and rural school districts from St. Louis to Marshall, MO, and will reach approximately 10,000 students and families.
learn and never catch up, resulting in increased rates of school failure and lifetimes of perpetuated hardships. It is shocking that children in Missouri public schools are only in school 13.9% of the year (174 days times seven hours a day)! Teachers cannot educate children alone. Educators believe parent and family engagement is the “missing link” in children’s education. However, they are often unsure of how to connect effectively with parents, and parents are often unsure of how to and sometimes too uncomfortable to connect with the school. That’s where HOME WORKS! comes in, providing that vital link between home and school.
“The most valuable part of the teacher home visit is the feeling that the teachers have a strong connection to the students and are invested in them, not just doing a ‘job,’ but actually truly care about the student and their families. I have never felt that way about any school, and I really like this feeling!” –HOME WORKS! Parent
How We Impact The Community: • Students who received home visits scored higher on a national reading assessment test (STAR) than students who did not receive visits. • Students who received home visits were less likely to be chronically absent than students who did not receive home visits. • 97% of parents surveyed at family dinners felt that attending made them feel welcome and more connected to their child’s school. • 95% of surveyed teachers believed that home visits improved students’ motivation and attitudes toward school.
What We Do: HOME WORKS! trains, supports, and helps pay teachers and other school personnel in low-performing schools to visit the homes of their vulnerable students to get their parents engaged in their children’s education. We believe that change happens at the speed of trust, so our program starts with and focuses on building relationships. During home visits, teachers get to know parents on the parents’ own turf, share information about the student, and give parents tools, skills, and strategies to use at home to help children succeed in school and in life. Both parents and teachers come to see their children’s education as a partnership. Once this partnership is formed, children are more likely to come to school ready to learn, stay on or above grade level through high school, and go on to and graduate from college or some other post-secondary institution ready for the workforce and/or further education. The HOME WORKS! program calls for mandatory teacher trainings, two teachers on each visit, one or two visits per student per year, family dinners and parent meetings at school, and staff in each school who ensure program fidelity and data collection. Teachers are paid to make home visits. Our evaluation team is embarking on the second year of a two-year Randomized Control Trial (RCT) – a rigorous study – of elementary school students in St. Louis Public Schools to show the powerful difference teacher home visits make on improving academic achievement, attendance, and classroom behavior. To date, no findings from rigorous RCTs measuring the effectiveness of teacher home visit programs on academic outcomes for schoolage students have been published.
“Before the home visit, the student did not finish his homework assignments and had a D in my class. He would frequently skip class and get distracted in class. After the home visit, this student made up all of his missing work and now has a B in class. His attendance has greatly improved and he is a model student.” – Lauren Bowers, Teacher, Vashon High School How You Can Help: As a nonprofit, we accept, welcome, and are grateful for generous donations, including gifts of stock, from individuals, family foundations, and corporations. Support pays teachers to make home visits and for teacher training, academic materials for parents to use at home, family dinners and parent meetings at school with transportation and interpreters for those who need them, data collection, and an annual evaluation. HOME WORKS! is creating a future for students, their families, and our community that would not exist without this crucial work. HOME WORKS! The Teacher Home Visit Program 1968 Innerbelt Business Center Drive St. Louis, MO 63114 314.727.2727 teacherhomevisit.org Facebook: @homeworksvisit Twitter: @HomeWorksVisit
“I learned that one visit with a parent at her house is worth more than one million phone calls to that same parent.” – HOME WORKS! Teacher Why We Are Important: National education research overwhelmingly states that students do better academically and socially when parents read, talk, play, and sing with their children daily from birth. Too many children enter school not ready to
Karen Kalish, Founder and CEO, karenkalish@gmail.com Amy Basore Murphy, Chair of the Board, amurphy@stlgives.org
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HOPE HAPPENS FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS Who We Are: Hope Happens (formerly ALS Hope - the James Maritz/Chris Hobler Foundation) was established in 2004 by Chris Hobler, who saw his diagnosis of ALS in 2001 as an opportunity to lead the fight against all neurodegenerative disorders. The Hope Center was established in January 2005 as a partnership between Hope Happens and Washington University School of Medicine, one of the top medical schools in the country for research and patient care. The Center's innovative approach combines core laboratory facilities and collaborative sharing of research information, equipment and data. Since 2005, the Center has grown from 17 to 160 principal investigators. More than 700 scientists from 24 different Washington University departments, St. Louis University, and the St. Louis College of Pharmacy are now working collaboratively to translate research into cures for neurological disorders.
is tremendous. In recent decades, medical science has produced remarkable advances, and we are able to enjoy longer, healthier lives. But aging is also a challenge, and today, more than five million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s disease alone. By 2050, this number could rise as high as 16 million. At the Hope Center, translational, collaborative research leads to swifter results, and fundamental discoveries about one neurological disease lead to treatments and cures in others. The Center is an outstanding model for successful, cutting-edge research, utilizing best practices of neurological research for patients, caregivers, and their families.
What We Do: We improve the quality of life for individuals with neurological disorders by inspiring collaborative research to find cures, providing HOPE to everyone afflicted with or connected to a neurological disease.
Hope Happens for Neurological Disorders 200 S. Hanley Road, Ste. 1100, St. Louis, MO 63105 314.725.3888 EIN: 20-2523211 hopehappens.org info@hopehappens.org Facebook: HopeHappens4ND Twitter: @HopeHappens4ND Instagram: hopehappens1100
How You Can Help: Hope Happens accepts monetary donations, volunteer efforts and measures needed to help raise awareness about our existence and cause.
Why We Are Important: We support collaborative, translational research at the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders at Washington University School of Medicine. At this cutting-edge research facility, scientists collaboratively seek new treatments and cures for neurodegenerative disorders like ALS, Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and stroke, plus brain and spinal cord injury, and many others. We bring HOPE to people with neurological disorders by funding innovative research for neurological diseases and by raising awareness about the very urgent need for treatments and cures for this group of diseases.
Board of Directors: Mary Bettis, Board President Christopher Danforth, Vice-President Christopher Imming, Treasurer Hilary Murphy, Secretary Leigh Hobler Gerard, Jean Hobler, Tim Kaufmann, Cary Schneithorst Reed, Josh Reinert, Tom Ruwitch, Glen Stettin, MD, Clark Thomas, Steve Wolff
How We Impact The Community: The need for new treatments and cures for neurodegenerative diseases
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JAZZ ST. LOUIS AT THE HAROLD & DOROTHY STEWARD CENTER FOR JAZZ Who We Are: While we may be best known for our award winning performance series, Jazz St. Louis is a not-for-profit 501(c) (3) organization that presents the best in live jazz and educates the next generation of jazz musicians and listeners. We see more than 45,000 visitors annually at Jazz St. Louis performances and reach approximately 7,000 students each year through our free education and community engagement initiatives. We can be found in The Harold & Dorothy Steward Center for Jazz, in the heart of the Grand Center Arts District. Our concert venue, Ferring Jazz Bistro, has earned praise from artists and patrons alike as one of the best listening rooms in the country.
How We Impact the Community: Jazz is known as America’s only original contribution to the art world, and so much of its history is rooted in St. Louis. As an organization, Jazz St. Louis is one of the few dedicated jazz presenters left in the nation, drawing one of the most diverse arts audiences in the community. And near-capacity attendance at our performances has a significant economic impact in the Grand Center Arts District. We also have the most robust offering of free educational programs anywhere, ensuring that students of all backgrounds and schools throughout our community have access to experience jazz, learn an instrument, and be inspired by the power of music.
What We Do: Each year Jazz St. Louis presents more than 300 concerts featuring some of the best local and national jazz musicians in the country. We also present a wide variety of education programs for people of all ages. For adults, Jazz St. Louis offers lectures and interactive events that explore how jazz is present in the most unexpected places, like politics, film, fashion, the Civil Rights Movement, and even baseball! For students and schools, we offer master classes, clinics and workshops, elementary school curriculum partnerships, in-school performances, and music therapy and early childhood development programs. All of these programs are aimed at exposing kids and adults to jazz, developing current and future musicians, and creating a sense of community by bringing together one of the most diverse arts audiences in St. Louis.
How You Can Help: Jazz St. Louis relies on financial support from individuals, corporations and foundations to ensure that we offer the highest quality performances to the community and continue to provide our education and community engagement opportunities at no cost to adults, students and schools. Consider supporting Jazz St. Louis through our Annual Fund, or through a sponsorship of an artist, of our annual gala, or of one of our education programs. Contact us about observing an education program, touring our education center, or volunteering and see first-hand how Jazz St. Louis contributes to the artistic fabric of St. Louis. Support from our donors and volunteers helps us to provide transformative musical experiences for adults and youth alike and establishes St. Louis as a cultural hub in the Midwest.
Why We Are Important: Our mission is to lead our community in advancing the uniquely American art of jazz through live performance, education and community engagement. We bring professional musicians and educators into schools to conduct master classes and clinics with middle and high school musicians, and perform for groups of elementary school students. We work with school districts to offer training and support to music teachers. We provide one-on-one lessons to student musicians and also offer early childhood education programming. We present the only music therapy program in the country, working with children afflicted with Neurofibromatosis.
Jazz St. Louis at The Harold & Dorothy Steward Center for Jazz 3536 Washington Ave. St. Louis, MO 63103 314.571.6000 Jazzstl.org Facebook: JazzSTL Instagram: @JazzSTL Twitter: @JazzStLouis President & CEO: Gene Dobbs Bradford, bradford@jazzstl.org Board Chair: Russell Jackson
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JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER (THE J)
Who We Are: For more than 135 years, the Jewish Community Center has served the St. Louis community, regardless of faith, race, or socio-economic background. We are known around town for being welcoming to all, and for our state-of-the-art fitness centers in Creve Coeur and Chesterfield, but among the 70,000 people we serve each year, we are even better known for delivering excellent programs, social services and cultural experiences.
care for and support people of all ages with disabilities. We improve the health of our community. We serve as the center of the Jewish community. And we give back: we distribute more than $500,000 annually in scholarships so that families in need can access our programs and services. How You Can Help: Support The J! Our members and donors are proud to support a mission-based agency. Volunteer for one or many of our programs and events. Sponsor an event or a program. Financially support the agency or select a program for which you are passionate!
What We Do: We change lives. Members, program participants, volunteers, sponsors and donors often share how The J has improved their lives through experiences in fitness, sports and recreation, early childhood education, programs for individuals with disabilities, adult day services, senior meal programs, day and residential camping, cultural events, and Jewish programming. We serve our community through more than one million touchpoints each year.
Jewish Community Center 2 Millstone Campus Drive St. Louis, MO 63146 jccstl.org Facebook: jccstl Instagram: @JStLouisCommunity Youtube: jccstl
Why We Are Important: We strive to support and strengthen our community. The J was founded because there was no resource to help Jewish immigrants acclimate and become American citizens. One hundred thirty-five years later, we are open to all and committed to being a central gathering place where people of all backgrounds can connect, make friends and experience true community.
Lynn Wittels President & CEO lwittels@jccstl.org Rachel Simoneau Director of Development rsimoneau@jccstl.org
How We Impact the Community: We shape the lives of young people through education, sports, camping and culture. We enhance the lives of the elderly and provide support for their caretakers. We serve 2,500 meals each month to low-income seniors and the homebound. We
Felicia Malter Board Chair felicia.malter@rubinbrown.com
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LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETYGATEWAY CHAPTER Who We Are: After their son’s death from leukemia in 1944, Rudolph and Antoinette de Villiers founded the Robert Roesler de Villiers Foundation; the name was changed to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) in the 1960s. The mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and to improve the quality of life of patients and their families. We are the voice for all blood cancer patients and we work to ensure access to treatments for all blood cancer patients.
support cancer patients and life-saving research. In fiscal year 2018, the Gateway Chapter: • Invested $6,633,457 in research to find cures; and advocated for access to those cures passing Oral Chemo Parity in Arkansas, Illinois, and Missouri • Contributed $2,501,616 in financial aid to patients • Served over 13,000 patients and families providing financial support, education, and support groups • Supported children returning to school after treatment and present information in more than 600 schools on cancer and volunteerism
What We Do: As there are no means of preventing or early screening for most blood cancers, LLS drives research in areas of unmet medical need, and helps to bridge the gap between academic discovery and drug development. LLS identifies and funds the most promising blood cancer research projects and forges partnerships with academic institutions, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies to accelerate the development of new therapies. LLS was the first to perform chemotherapy, the first to utilize bone marrow transplants and is now pioneering work in oral (tablet) therapies and CAR T immunotherapy. Since our founding, LLS has invested over $1.2 billion in research to find cures. As a result, 5 year survival rates for most blood cancers have doubled, tripled, or even quadrupled. Since 2017, 32 new drugs have been FDA approved as blood cancer treatments. Of these, LLS-funded research played a role in the development of 26 of them.
LLS is the leading source of free, highly specialized blood cancer information, education and support for patients, survivors, families and healthcare professionals. LLS provides patients, families and healthcare professionals with the latest information on blood cancers and their treatments through the Information Resource Center hotline (1.800.955.4572), and Patient Care Binders. All of these resources are free, and many educational programs offer Continuing Education credits for healthcare providers. Through our Student Series program, we work with more than 600 schools to provide fundraising ideas and guidance for K-12 which will teach leadership, philanthropy, community service and to help fight blood cancers. The program recently unveiled an exciting STEM curriculum for grades K-8, with each lesson plan designed to be grade-level appropriate and easily integrated into the existing math and science curriculum. The Student Series also provides personalized posters for Honored Heroes at each school. Additionally, we offer a Back to School program that informs parents, school nurses, teachers, and administrators about the challenges that a returning student faces and how to best assist them.
Why We Are Important: From 1920 to 2018, only four oncology drugs have been approved in the first instance for children. In response, LLS launched the Children’s Initiative with a goal of bringing precision medicine to pediatric patients by offering support for patients and caregivers, driving research and launching a Pediatric Master Clinical Trial in 2018. Additionally, LLS’s policy and advocacy team helped promote the Childhood Cancer Survivorship, Treatment, Access, Research (STAR) Act, a comprehensive childhood cancer research initiative that was signed into law this year. LLS has a history of supporting some of the most impactful research to advance live-saving therapies for patients with blood cancers. However, LLS recognizes that finding cures is not enough; we need to ensure that patients have access to the best treatments, services and providers they need to live longer, better, healthier lives. LLS is dedicated to removing barriers to care. By providing our network of advocates a powerful voice, the advocacy team drives policies that accelerate the development and approval of innovative treatments and ensure that patients have sustainable access to quality, affordable coordinated care. Our team is committed to ensuring that patients have access to an adequate network of providers and services and are protected from high out-of-pocket costs that limit access to life-saving treatments.
How You Can Help: Individuals or corporations can make a significant impact by visiting LLS.org/Gateway to make a gift today. Volunteer opportunities are available throughout the year on our many campaigns: Light The Night, Students of the Year, Hunt for a Cure, Student Series, Team In Training and Man & Woman of the Year. Simply call 314.590.2230 for more information. Leukemia & Lymphoma Society 1972 Innerbelt Business Center Dr.,St. Louis, Missouri 63114 314.590.2230 Lls.org/gat Facebook: gatewaylls Instagram: gatewaylls Twitter: @GatewayLLS Chair: Karen Miller, SSM Health Vice Chair: Suzanne Strothkamp, Express Scripts Secretary: Scott Savacool, Sansone Group Treasurer: Mike Castellano, Esse Health
How We Impact the Community: Your contributions fund patient access and education activities, advocacy efforts to
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LIFE ARTS Who We Are: LIFE Arts is a 501(c)(3) faith-based nonprofit rooted in the Ferguson-Florissant North County area committed to using the arts to develop future-ready leaders our communities need today.
church that was generously donated by one of our biggest supporters, M1 Bank. We’re planning to re-purpose the building as our M1 Academy for the Arts, creative center, operations headquarters, and community hub. The Campus for LIFE, Arts, & Culture will feature a worldclass theatre, training rooms, innovative labs, recording studios, video-editing suites, collaboration spaces, a beautification garden, community cafe, and a plethora of sustainable resources. Through this building and its resources, we'll meet the greater needs of our students, community, and partners as we serve them in even more meaningful and memorable ways.
What We Do: The mission of LIFE Arts is developing the leaders of today, where they live, using the arts. We live out this mission through pouring into the lives of our students and communities by way of our signature programs, projects, and pathways. Why We Are Important: LIFE Arts uses its programs, projects, and pathways to build the future-ready leaders of today. These programs, projects, and pathways are actualized through our after-school LIFE Academy model, LIFE Creative collective, and general LIFE Operations respectively. In all, we use our curriculum, resources, and network to pour into the North County community by partnering non-profits, organizations, and other educational institutions with one another as well as our students while also developing the next generation leadership and work force of our community for those same partners.
How You Can Help: Currently, we’re accepting donations for our Built for LIFE Campaign at Lifeartsinc. org/builtforlife. Your donation will help us reach our multi-million dollar goal to help expand our programs, projects, and pathways while also helping build out our new multifunctional building The Campus for LIFE, Arts, & Culture. Life Arts 710 Wesley Avenue St. Louis, MO 63135 info@lifeartsinc.org Lifeartsinc.org Facebook: LIFEARTSINC Instagram: @lifeartsinc Twitter: @lifeartsinc
How We Impact The Community: Our organization’s priority is pouring everything into our kids through our artsbased leadership and educational programming, providing them the resources and real-world opportunities through various projects, and ensuring they’re connected back into Ferguson-Florissant and North County through fellowships and pathways to our community partners such as M1 Bank and Maryville University. By pouring everything into our students, providing them unique leadership and creative opportunities, our impact naturally overflows into the community. Also, we’re currently in the process of building out our Campus for LIFE, Arts, & Culture — an old
Board Members: Brian Owens, Deron Wilson, Stephanie Poteet, Shane Moskop, Dan Lester, Dr. Richard Shaw, Tamika Clay, Jasmine Turnage, Harlan Hodge, Sandra Marks, Dwayne Ingram, Terry Hurley, and Dr. Edgar Everett
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Personal Story: Justin Plumber There’s something extraordinary about Justin. You sense it when you meet him - his vibrancy, quick smile, and sharp attentiveness. He started attending LFLA in 6th grade. At his prior school, he was a fighter, defending himself from kids who didn’t understand him as a person. He wanted to be a cheerleader but the principal even told him that boys could not be cheerleaders. His father left when he was 8 years old. He lives with his mother but his relationship with her is strained. The one constant in his life is his grandmother, who encourages him to excel as a student. When he began attending LFLA, he was immediately welcomed by both students and staff. “It felt intimate and comforting. Everyone wanted to be my friend and I could be the person I wanted to be,” expressed Justin. He’s the captain of the cheerleading squad and the first male cheerleader in the history of the school. Justin giving his presentation this past summer at Washington University’s Young Scientist Program that he was selected to attend.
LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY
Who We Are: Lift For Life Academy (LFLA), established in 2000, is the first charter school in the city of St. Louis covering grades 6th – 12th. In its first year, the Academy had an enrollment of 60 students. There are now 585 students enrolled at LFLA. The Academy is sponsored by Southeast Missouri State University.
How We Impact The Community: Our students come from all parts of the city. 85% of them qualify for Free/ Reduced Lunch and 75% of incoming students are two to four years behind in English and math. How You Can Help : There are many ways that individuals may engage with our Academy ‌ as a volunteer, a donor, or a community partner. Volunteers can serve as reading mentors, consultants, classroom presenters, and support prior to or during events. Individuals and/or corporations may contribute financially to capital campaigns, events, specific programs or projects, or to general operating expenses. LFLA also has several corporate partners that provide educational services, offer internships, develop and execute programming, and donate goods and services.
What We Do: LFLA maintains a low teacher ratio (1:13) and provides individual tutoring in order to give the students the attention they need to overcome the achievement gaps. LFLA offers a challenging and stimulating curriculum to keep students engaged. Courses include Mandarin Chinese, engineering, fashion design, coding, photography and more. Daily attendance averages 93% and the graduation rate is 97%. Why We Are Important: Beginning in 6th grade, conversations about post-secondary education begin and continue through high school. College counselors assist students with enrollment applications, ACT testing, financial aid and also conduct college tours both in-state and outof-state. Over the past several years, 80% of graduating seniors pursue college, technical school or the military. Our primary focus is to provide students with a strong educational foundation and to facilitate their career path after graduation. This will promote their financial security and gradually improve the overall economic health of our community.
Lift For Life Academy 1731 South Broadway, St. Louis, MO 63104 314.231.2337 Website: Liftforlifeacademy.org Facebook: Liftforlifeacademy Twitter: @Lift4LifeAcad Instagram: @liftforlifeacademy Marshall Cohen, Executive Director & Co-founder Email: mcohen@liftforlifeacademy.org
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MARYGROVE Who We Are: For more than 165 years, Marygrove has been a place where children, youth and families in need have found hope and healing. Marygrove provides treatment and support to young people struggling with the often debilitating emotional and behavioral issues resulting from abuse, neglect and other trauma. Overlooking the Missouri River, the 43-acre campus in Florissant offers a naturally beautiful and restorative environment. Through its comprehensive continuum of residential and community based programs, Marygrove transforms the lives of more than 1,300 young people each year.
for its ability to help those who’ve continued to struggle in foster care or other agencies, and for positive outcomes treating young people with severe mental health issues, dual diagnosis’s, chronic health conditions and other complex emotional disorders. Marygrove believes that all children deserve to feel worthy and supported in their journey to realize their potential. Marygrove is committed to helping young people in need have the tools to become confident and capable adults. How You Can Help: Marygrove’s largest fundraiser – BLOOM – will be held at the Four Seasons St. Louis on March 8, 2019. This year BLOOM has a fun and creative theme for guests to enjoy, but what remains constant are the inspiring stories of hope and healing. The event chair of BLOOM this year is Roseanne Henkel. Sponsorship and ticket information is available at marygrovechildren. org or by calling 314.830.6209.
What We Do: Marygrove provides a full range of behavioral health services including: • Therapeutic Residential Treatment – Residential and Intensive Treatment “cottages” provide a safe and stable living environment while youth receive help to manage emotional and behavioral issues. • Therapeutic Foster Care – On-campus and community based foster homes give children an environment to learn to trust and engage positively in a family setting. • Transitional Living Program – On-campus psychiatric group homes provide a foundation of support as young adults pursue academic, occupational and other life skills that advance them toward healthy and productive adult lives. • Independent Living Program – A community based program where young people, including teen parents, learn important skills, which move them toward self-sufficiency. • Crisis Services – A full range of shelter services that provide a safe and nurturing environment for youth experiencing homelessness or family crisis. • The Marygrove School – An on-campus, private special education school for children who require more therapeutic support during the day.
Other ways to support Marygrove include: • Attend special events: - Spring Fling at Norwood Hills Country Club on April 25, 2019 - Golf Tournament at Forest Hills Country Club on June 10, 2019 • Provide financial support • Become a Christmas Angel – donate cash or gifts and help children have a joy-filled holiday • Serve as a Mentor – be a positive role model for a Marygrove resident • Join the Young Professional Board – help enrich the life of a child and engage with other local young professionals Marygrove 27056 Mullanphy lane Florissant, Mo 63031 314.830.6209 Marygrovechildren.org Facebook: Marygrove Instagram: @marygrovekids Twitter: @marygrovekids
Why We Are Important: Marygrove plays a unique and important role empowering our community’s most valuable resource – it’s children. It serves as an important safety net for children, youth and families, many of whom are struggling with seemingly insurmountable challenges in their journey of hope and healing.
Robert G. Porter, Board President Joe Bestgen, Chief Executive Officer Courtney Noto, Director of Development, cnoto@mgstl.org
How We Impact the Community: Social services and other placement agencies have come to rely on Marygrove
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NURSES FOR NEWBORNS
Who We Are: Nurses for Newborns (NFN) exists to provide a safety net for families most at-risk in order to prevent infant mortality, child abuse and neglect by providing in-home nursing visits which promote healthcare, education and positive parenting skills. Our unique in-home nurse visitation program is tailored to address both baby and parent (caregiver) specific needs. Our model also pairs home visiting with evidence-based services that address mental health, language and cultural barriers, ensuring the best possible care and outcomes for holistic family well-being.
How We Impact The Community: Our goals include reducing child neglect, abuse, inappropriate emergency room use and unnecessary hospitalizations. In addition, we connect families with appropriate resources. Since our founding in 1991, by registered nurse, Sharon Rohrbach, NFN nurses now provide thousands of home visits annually, ensuring positive healthy outcomes to over 110,000+ infants in our community since our inception. How You Can Help: There are many ways individuals and corporations can make a difference in the lives of the most vulnerable in our community. Volunteer opportunities include donation sorting and organization, office support and special events. Annual, monthly or one-time contributions may be made online, by phone or by mail. Celebrate loved ones through a tribute or memorial gift that helps babies and their families. Participate in the Planned Giving program by including Nurses for Newborns in your estate plans. Our families are in constant need of diapers, baby wipes, formula, baby food, as well as new or gently used baby equipment: pack n’ plays, car seats, high chairs and strollers. For more information on how you can help, please call at 314.544.3433.
What We Do: Nurses for Newborns provides critical services to families in 20 counties in Missouri and in mid-Tennessee. Each year, NFN sends highly skilled and specially trained registered pediatric nurses, clinical social workers and community health workers into the homes of over 3,000 infants, pregnant women and their families who are coping with risk factors, including poverty, social isolation, medical conditions, and lack of resources, preterm birth and teen pregnancy. In addition to health care, nurses provide parent education on vital topics such as safe sleep, infant CPR, medications, child development, and connections to critical resources. Why We Are Important: In St. Louis the infant mortality rate is two times the national average. And in the city of St. Louis the rate of child abuse and neglect is three times the national average! This is not only appalling, it is completely unacceptable. But there is hope! At NFN we believe every baby should reach their first birthday, and their parents or caregivers have the support and resources they may be lacking during that incredibly crucial time. Our work with infants promotes health, safety, and wellbeing. Our work with families is strength-based and is designed to support and encourage expecting and new parents. We employ qualified, experienced and compassionate nurses and connect them with the moms and dads who are most in need.
Nurses for Newborns 7259 Lansdowne, Suite 100 St. Louis, Missouri 63119 314.544.3433 Nursesfornewborns.org Facebook: NursesForNewborns Twitter: @nurses4newborns Chief Executive Officer: Melinda Monroe, MA melinda.monroe@nursesfornewborns.org Board Leadership: Linda M. Dougherty, Esq., President, Kelly Ferrara, Vice President
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OLLIE HINKLE HEART FOUNDATION Who We Are: The Ollie Hinkle Heart Foundation is committed to fighting the leading birth defect in the U.S., Congenital Heart Defects (CHD), and supporting and strengthening heart families throughout the St. Louis region and beyond. Founded in honor of Ollie Hinkle, a brave heart warrior who lost his battle with CHD at age one, we provide loving and compassionate support of heart families, CHD education, and funding for leading pediatric heart research.
many challenge of the disease. Through our efforts, area heart families have more resources and support than ever before – tailored for their unique needs and to make a difference in their fight and lives. How You Can Help: We provide year-round programming and fundraising initiatives to support area heart families and fund leading pediatric heart research. There are many ways to get involved including: 1. Make a donation through our website, www.theohhf.com. 2. Become a sponsor for our annual “A Dose of Magic” event at the Magic House – a free night of fun, fellowship and education for area heart families in partnership with St. Louis Children’s Hospital. 3. Come and run in our annual family-friendly 5K fun run, The Love Run, on May 19, 2019. 4. Eat and drink to support our efforts at our annual signature food and beverage tasting fundraiser, I Heart Food & Wine, on November 3, 2019. Or become a sponsor of the event. 5. Contact us to sponsor a care package or explore other ideas at info@theohhf.com.
What We Do: We offer many resources and services to lift up and empower heart families to face the many challenges of the disease – showing them love and compassion to help bolster their spirits and sustain their fight against CHD. In 2018, we extended our support of heart families by funding a free mental health program for parents of children with CHD through St. Louis Children’s Hospital. Up to 50 percent of parents with children with critical CHD, needing one or more cardiac surgeries in the first year of life, report clinically elevated symptoms of depression and/or anxiety. Through this program, we look to help create a positive impact in their lives and families. We also provide hope to all current and future heart families by funding leading pediatric heart research that is focused on improving the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis for children with CHD.
Ollie Hinkle Heart Foundation 20 Allen Ave. Webster Groves, MO 63119 Ohhf.com Facebook: theohhf Instagram: @theohhf
Why We Are Important: Our support of heart families, pediatric heart research funding and CHD education is critical for many reasons, including: • Each year, one in 100 infants are born with a CHD – the leading U.S. birth defect. Despite its prevalence, CHD research is grossly underfunded. • Little is known about the cause of most of the more than 40 types of CHDs, and there is no prevention or cure for any of them. • 25 percent of children with Critical CHD will not survive past their first birthday. • New treatments are desperately needed to reduce the number of invasive surgeries, improve prognosis for children with CHD and save lives.
Founding Board: Mark Hinkle, Co-Founder of the Ollie Hinkle Heart Foundation and Co-Owner of Olive & Oak and The Clover & the Bee Restaurants Katy Linnenbringer, Attorney at Law Board Members: Jenny Brosseau, Wells Fargo Dr. Chetana Reddy, Cardinal Glennon Beth Rumack, St. Louis Children’s Hospital Amanda Schmitt, US Bank Matt Schmitt, Centene Jason Weems, Express Scripts
How We Impact the Community: We know firsthand the heartache, concerns and fear many heart families face, and work to strengthen and empower heart families to face the
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Healing Hunger. Strengthening Our Future.
OPERATION FOOD SEARCH Who We Are: Operation Food Search (OFS) is a hunger relief organization dedicated to a mission of healing hunger and strengthening our future. OFS feeds more than 200,000 neighbors in need each month through a network of 330 partner agencies including food pantries, soup kitchens and transitional homes. In addition to meeting the “immediate” hunger need, OFS features a range of programs and services proven to reduce food insecurity and increase access to healthy and affordable food. Programs such as Operation Backpack, Summer Meals, Afterschool Meals and nutrition education help present healthy food options to children and families when they are most in need of support.
while striving to educate and empower our neighbors to become food secure. It is proven that going to work or school on an empty stomach will decrease productivity and hamper the ability to live, work and play. OFS’ mission is twofold: to ensure no child goes to bed on an empty stomach and to educate adults on how to stretch their food dollar in order to prepare and serve healthy meals to their families. How We Impact The Community: Hunger is in every zip code of our community. For more than three decades, OFS has provided meals and education and hope to those who need it most. We have been instrumental in filling the needs of the community through network partners. We work with local grocery partners to “rescue” food and ensure it gets in the hands of those who need it most.
What We Do: We work with local grocer y stores, farmers and other sources to “rescue” food and limit food waste. That food is then stored and distributed at our 67,000-square-foot facility in Overland. Agencies pick up the free food in order to directly serve their communities. Programs dedicated to helping children and families access healthy, affordable food while reducing food insecurity include: • Operation Backpack – Weekend meals are given to food-insecure kids throughout the school year. • Summer Meals – This USDA-funded program ensures children ages 18 years of age and younger continue receiving nutritious meals when school is not in session via mobile and stationary methods. • Afterschool Meals – Students get nutritious “super snacks” to fuel their minds and bodies at the end of each school day. • Nutrition education – Our team conducts cooking classes designed to teach hands-on meal preparation, practical nutrition information and food budgeting skills for both adults and children.
How You Can Help: There are many ways to support our mission. You can give monetarily as a “hunger healer” (monthly recurring donation) or attend one of our signature fundraising events throughout the year. We have an amazing group of more than 7,500 volunteers to help fill backpacks, sort food and take on projects to advance our cause (and we’re always looking for philanthropic, dynamic individuals to join us). Finally, spreading the word about our agency and the people we serve is paramount to our success in healing hunger and strengthening our future. Operation Food Search 1644 Lotsie Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63132 314.325.1293 Operationfoodsearch.org Twitter: @OpFoodSearch Instagram: @OpFoodSearch Facebook: operationfoodsearch
Why We Are Important: The facts are staggering: One out of every six people living in the St. Louis metropolitan area is food insecure…and of that number, one-third are children. We work every day to ease the hurt of hunger
Contact: Mark Taylor Mark.taylor@operationfoodsearch.org
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A Pedal-funded Researcher Says it Best “Without support from PTC, my research program would not have had the ‘seed money’ to test our hypothesis and get the critical preliminary data that allowed us to successfully compete for NIH and other large-scale funding. Through this research, we have begun to understand the changes that a tumor undergoes during the course of formation and spread (metastases) that is allowing us to develop better diagnostics and therapeutics for cancer.” -Dr. Ryan Fields, Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of General Surgery, Section of Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic and Gastrointestinal Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine
PEDAL THE CAUSE Who We Are: Pedal the Cause is St. Louis' premier cycling event, where 100% of participant-raised donations fund groundbreaking cancer research at Siteman Cancer Center and Siteman Kids at St. Louis Children's Hospital. In 2018, over 5,000 riders, spinners, kids and volunteers, with the support of more than 40,000 donors, made Pedal the Cause the region's largest peer-to-peer fundraising event. In nine years of fundraising, Pedal the Cause has donated over $24.3 million, funding 109 adult and pediatric cancer research projects.
of the cancer research at Siteman Kids at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. For every $1 donated to Pedal the Cause, researchers have been able to leverage those funds to obtain an additional $7 in federal funding to advance their cancer research projects. Not only has this led to accelerated developments in cancer treatments, but it is a robust tool for Siteman Cancer Center, St. Louis Children’s Hospital and the Washington University School of Medicine as they seek to recruit and retain the brightest minds in the scientific world.
What We Do: The mission of Pedal the Cause is to fund research that will ultimately lead to a cure for cancer – all cancers for everyone. In nine years, the impact of this $24.3 million has come into clear focus. In this period of diminished federal funding where support typically gets funneled to already proven concepts, many potentially new ideas are not deemed eligible. Pedal the Cause donations “seed” best-inbreed ideas at our beneficiaries to allow the cultivation of proof of concept and critical data. These seeded projects often turn into groundbreaking results that lead to new treatments and cures, preventions, and early detection diagnostics. For example, in November 2018, the National Institute of Health (NIH) awarded an $11.5 million grant to Washington University researchers and physicians at Siteman Cancer Center to further high-level investigations into leukemia and related blood cancers. This SPORE (Specialized Program in Research Excellence) grant supports five new projects led by Washington University physicians, several of whom had their initial leukemia studies funded by Pedal the Cause. With their initial concepts proven through these Pedal-funded studies, they were able to pursue next-level funding through the NIH. The goal of this SPORE grant is to develop biomarkers and treatments for leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes and to develop and promote innovative translational leukemia research. This large grant is just one example of the many federal grants Pedal-funded researchers have obtained through national agencies to further their research.
How We Impact The Community: Pedal the Cause has engaged the St. Louis community and created lasting economic impact, while helping recruit and retain the brightest scientific minds to the region. Additionally, patients are being provided new therapies, cures, preventions, and diagnostics as a result of Pedal-funded research. Pedal the Cause is much more than just a first-class event and bike ride, it has become a community celebration. The event has become a meaningful way for those who are fighting cancer and those who have lost loved ones to this disease to come together to support, revere, remember and celebrate as one. With six different courses ranging from 10 – 100 miles, as well as a Kids Challenge, Taste the Cause, and Inspirational Program, there is truly something for everyone at Pedal the Cause weekend.
Why We Are Important: With the bold model of using 100% of public donations to fund world-class cancer research here in St. Louis, Pedal the Cause has quickly become the gateway to curing cancer – all cancers, for everyone. Through support of the Siteman Investment Program and the Children’s Discovery Institute, Pedal the Cause funds approximately 30% of the cancer research that occurs at Siteman Cancer Center, and 70%
Pedal the Cause will take place on September 28 & 29, 2019 at the Chesterfield Amphitheater.
How You Can Help: You have an extraordinary opportunity to help change the course of cancer. Consider joining our fight to create a world without cancer and: • Make a tax-deductible donation in honor of those who are battling cancer or in memory of those who have succumbed to cancer and help fund innovative research here in St. Louis. • Register for PTC 2019 (beginning March 1) as a rider, spinner, virtual rider or volunteer. • Get your company involved by starting a team or becoming a corporate sponsor and help Pedal the Cause continue to donate 100% of participant-raised funds to cancer research.
Learn more or donate now at pedalthecause.org Facebook: pedalthecause Instagram: @pedalthecause Twitter: @pedalthecause
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PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ST. LOUIS REGION AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI Who We Are: Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri is a leading provider of reproductive health care. For more than 85 years, we’ve empowered people to take control of their health and their lives. Our mission is to provide, protect and support reproductive and sexual health, services, access and rights.
orientation, class, age, personal circumstances or ability to pay. We believe when people have high-quality health care, it empowers them to shape their lives, their families, and the world around them. How You Can Help: • Make a Donation: It is with the generosity of our community that Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri remains the most trusted health care provider in our region and that our doors remain open to provide care to each and every person, no matter what. Make a donation online at www.ppslr.org/donate. • Volunteer: There are many ways to volunteer with Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri. Volunteer opportunities include phone banking, data entry, writing a letter to the editor, and joining our outreach team. • Become a Patient: Support Planned Parenthood by becoming a patient! We accept private insurance and provide services to all genders. Make an appointment online at www.plannedparenthood.org/book.
What We Do: Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Reg ion and Southwest Missouri has eig ht health centers: six in the St. Louis area, one in Springfield and one in Joplin. We provide a wide range of sexual and reproductive health care services, including cancer screenings, birth control, options counseling , HPV vaccines, annual wellness exams, STI testing and treating, and more. We also provide medically accurate, ageappropriate sex education to students and adults across the region. Our research team also works to advance the field of sexual and reproductive health, studying new birth control methods and researching ways to expand access and options for our patients. Why We Are Important: More than 30,000 people rely on Planned Parenthood for their sexual and reproductive health care every year. Without Planned Parenthood, only 7 percent of Missouri’s safety net providers offer the full range of birth control options and have evening or weekend hours. For many patients, Planned Parenthood is their only health care provider.
Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri 4251 Forest Park Ave. St. Louis, Mo 63108 314.531.7526 Ppslr.org Facebook: ppstlouis Instagram: @planned_parenthood_stl_swmo Twitter: @PPSLR
How We Impact The Community: We treat health care as a human right — one that’s dispensed freely and without judgment — regardless of race, gender, sexual
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SAINT LOUIS BALLET COMPANY Who We Are: Saint Louis Ballet is a resident professional performing company under the artistic direction of former New York City Ballet principal dancer Gen Horiuchi. Founded on the belief that world-class arts and cultural organizations are the heart and soul of great communities, Saint Louis Ballet has continued to grow and strive for excellence since its founding in 1975. The company is comprised of 22 professional dancers selected from national auditions who hail not only from our region, but also from throughout the United States and as far away as Japan and Slovakia. These professionals move to St. Louis to work with Saint Louis Ballet and make our city their permanent home. Complementing the professional company is a cohort of eight trainees. In addition to Artistic Director Horiuchi, the organization is overseen by a 17-member Board of Directors, and supported by a staff of five. Our audiences, donors, volunteers and outreach participants, our partners in this venture, number above 20,000.
barriers to participation. Pointe to Succeed, Tickets for Teachers and Kids, School-Day Performances and our Hospital Visit Program offer a variety of entry points for community members who would otherwise not have access to high-level ballet training, professional productions or the opportunity to meet, work with and learn from professional dancers. Pointe to Succeed, our most comprehensive outreach program, is designed to bring the joy, discipline and wonder of ballet to school-age children. Offered free of charge to resource-challenged schools, the curriculum includes storytelling, interactive seminars, after-school classes, attendance at performances and extended training for those students who are interested in further study. Tickets for Teachers and Kids removes financial barriers to attendance for teachers, their families and their students. Substantial ticket discounts are also offered to veterans and college students. School-Day Performances provide condensed and narrated versions of our story ballets for children. Finally, our Hospital Visit Program features costumed dancers who regale young patients with the stories of the great ballets, perform and answer children’s questions. Saint Louis Ballet is invested in our community and is committed to expanding its outreach programs.
What We Do: Saint Louis Ballet produces classical and contemporary ballets of the highest quality at Touhill Performing Arts Center and in Grand Center’s intimate Grandel Theatre. Central to our mission as a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization are the outreach and education programs we present at schools and in the community. Our performing season runs from early November through May and consists of up to six productions featuring 25-30 performances annually. The company also tours regionally to midwestern colleges and universities. Our repertoire is broad and vast, including grand productions of full-length ballets such as Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, Don Quixote, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle and Cinderella. The Nutcracker is a regional favorite, attracting more than 10,000 children and families to the Touhill each holiday season. In addition to the classics, Saint Louis Ballet performs iconic works by modern masters such as George Balanchine. And with a commitment to showcase new works, the company commissions ballets from emerging and established choreographers each year. There is dance for every taste at Saint Louis Ballet!
How You Can Help: There are many opportunities to support Saint Louis Ballet, a not-for-profit charitable arts organization. Approximately 50% of our revenue is generated from ticket sales. This ratio of earned to contributed income is high relative to other not-for-profit performing arts groups, and we are proud of this strong community support. However, with a goal to expand our programs for underserved children and families, we must increase the share of contributed revenue. Individuals and corporations are invited to participate as season, performance or education program sponsors. Contributions may be designated to support specific funds, including Sponsor-A-Dancer, Pointe Shoe Fund, Community Fund, Tickets for Teachers and Kids, and general operating support. Another way to support Saint Louis Ballet is by participating in The Jewels Gala as a sponsor or attendee. Always a beautiful and elegant occasion, the Gala includes a cocktail reception, dinner, auction, fabulous entertainment and the opportunity to dance the night away with the dancers of Saint Louis Ballet! Over 300 of our community’s most creative and philanthropic citizens attend each year. The Jewels Gala will be held at the Caramel Room at Bissinger’s on March 3, 2019. All proceeds from this event go to support Saint Louis Ballet operations and outreach programs.
Why We Are Important: Ballet is an art form that belongs in every community across our country, not only because of its important place in the lexicon of classical art forms, but also because it provides a positive outlet for imagination and non-verbal creative expression. At its best, ballet reflects our world back to us through stories featuring universal themes of love, loss, courage and goodness. Communities that embrace and support an array of dance, music, art and theatre are desirable places to live, and the organizations that perform and teach these art forms are essential to creating a vibrant cultural life. St. Louis is blessed with many cultural treasures – an internationally recognized symphony orchestra and opera company, respected theatre companies and world-renowned museums. Saint Louis Ballet is another important pillar in the structure and fabric of our cultural life. In addition to impacting quality of life, Saint Louis Ballet’s entrepreneurial trajectory contributes to our local economy, creating opportunities for performers, choreographers, musicians, technical personnel and dance educators.
Saint Louis Ballet Company Offices and Rehearsal Studios 218 THF Blvd. Chesterfield, MO 63005 636.527.1998 www.stlouisballet.org Facebook: stlouisballet Twitter: @stlouisballet Instagram: @stlouisballet Gen Horiuchi, Artistic Director, Gen.horiuchi@stlouisballet.org
How We Impact the Community: With the core value that ballet should be inclusive and accessible to everyone, Saint Louis Ballet offers a number of innovative programs and initiatives that support community involvement, cultivate diversity in ballet and remove
Saint Louis Ballet performs at: The Touhill Performing Arts Center on the UMSL Campus The Grandel Theatre in the Grand Center Arts District ....and a variety of community locations
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ST. LOUIS AREA FOODBANK Who We Are: Founded in 1975, the St. Louis Area Foodbank is the region’s largest provider of food and personal care items to those facing hunger. We are the only local food bank with United Way of Greater St. Louis and Feeding America memberships and are held to the highest level of fiscal accountability. In fact, 97 percent of our resources are expended on food distribution efforts.
Encourage fall under specific food groups that contribute to healthier lifestyles and align with USDA MyPlate guidelines. Specifically, we operate USDA programs that benefit seniors and school-age children, and we also work with families moving from shelters to more permanent housing. The Foodbank also guides families through the process of applying for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, which provides benefits commonly known as food stamps. These benefits provide a crucial resource to lowincome individuals struggling with food insecurity.
What We Do: The St. Louis Area Foodbank’s mission is to build stronger communities by empowering people with food and hope. We feed 392,000 people annually through a robust network of community-based hunger relief organizations and programs located in 26 counties throughout eastern Missouri and southwestern Illinois. Last year alone, the organization distributed more than 43 million pounds of food and personal care items.
How You Can Help: Volunteers work with us year-round to sort and pack food for distribution in our volunteer center. We engage 16,000 volunteers a year– of all ages and abilities– in the fight against hunger. Weekend and evening hours are available. Ultimately, eliminating hunger is beyond the capacity of any single entity and requires collaboration between the public, our government partners and other charities. With that in mind, we invite groups of various sizes and ages to visit the Foodbank’s Hunger Engagement Center where we host educational events designed to raise awareness around hunger and the work being done to address it. Monetary donations are also a great help. Secure online donations can be made on our website while tax-deductible gifts may be made by cash or check. Other ways to contribute include monthly giving, federated campaigns, and corporate/foundation gifts. You can leave a legacy of feeding the hungry by designating the Foodbank as a beneficiary in bequests, charitable remainder trusts, annuities, and life insurance. For more information on how you can help fight hunger locally, please click on “Get Involved” at STLFoodbank.org.
Why We Are Important: No one can thrive on an empty stomach. Food is where it all starts. For the one in six people in our region facing hunger, meeting this most basic need makes so much more possible– from steady employment to healthy lifestyles and even civic engagement. By providing food to those in need, we help our most vulnerable neighbors avoid the difficult choice between food and other basic necessities such as housing, utilities, medicine and transportation. Food banks are also important because many of the partner agencies that we serve are run entirely by volunteers or employ very few paid staff. They may be conducting food and funds drives on their own, but the results are often not enough to meet the demand in their communities. By leveraging relationships with manufacturers, farmers, and retail stores, food banks are able to fill in the gaps and provide agencies with better access to more nutritionally-diverse foods including produce, dairy and much-needed proteins.
St. Louis Area Foodbank 70 Corporate Woods Drive Bridgeton, MO 63044 314.292.6262 STLFoodbank.org Facebook: STLFoodbank Twitter: @STLFoodbank Instagram: @STLFoodbank
How We Impact The Community: We know that families facing hunger often face other diet-related health concerns like diabetes, hypertension, and obesity. As a result, the Foodbank works hard to ensure that 70 percent of everything going out of our doors is a “Food to Encourage.” Foods to
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Patient Story: Meet Gabriella Just after Halloween of 2017, Gabriella noticed a bump on her neck. By mid-December, she was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer that forms in the respiratory tract and other places along the middle of the body, from head to the abdomen which requires extensive radiation and chemotherapy. Gabriella required immediate surgery, intensive rounds of radiation, 33 treatments and 7 months of on-going chemotherapy. This is almost an entire year of treatment and hospital visits‌ a long time to have your life on hold, especially when you are only 13 years old. With the help and support of her family and her health care team at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, Gabriella is determined to get through her treatments and get well. She has not had the energy to do the things she really loves like gymnastics, playing softball or being with her friends at school. In other words, just being a kid. Donations ensure that everything possible is done to help kids like Gabriella get the treatment, support and nurturing environment so they can be as brave as they need to be to get well. Help kids like Gabriella by making a gift at StLouisChildrens.org/BeBrave.
ST. LOUIS CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL Who We Are: St. Louis Children’s Hospital is one of the premiere children’s hospitals in the United States and serves not just the children and families of St. Louis, but children across the world. As the pediatric teaching hospital for Washington University School of Medicine, the hospital offers nationally recognized programs for physician training and research.
Why We Are Important: Charitable giving funds more than 40 different programs and services in the areas of clinical care, community outreach, pediatric research and education. Donors help the hospital enhance and expand its services, upgrade and renovate facilities, and develop vital new programs that could not exist without community support. Our goal is to make the most of every gift to the hospital. With the support of our donors and volunteers, we help children in the hospital with special therapies and programs that are unique and tailored to kids. We also fund pediatric outreach programs, such as Healthy Kids Express, that reach more than 10,000 children in our community each year. And thanks to the help of donors, the hospital has never turned away a child based on a family’s ability to pay for services.
What We Do: We do what’s right for kids. St. Louis Children’s Hospital is a not-for-profit hospital that enlists the charitable support of a growing community of donors to become Guardians of Childhood. Donations make a difference within the hospital: • Funding unique programs, such as art therapy, music therapy and the Clown Docs, to help sick kids feel better and cope with the fear and anxiety of being in the hospital. • Providing a school teacher to help kids keep up with their school work when they’re in the hospital. • Supporting an inpatient playroom, teen lounge and sibling playroom. • Donations make a difference outside the hospital: • Funding Healthy Kids Express, a mobile health program that brings health care to children, 1-18 years old, in St. Louis City, surrounding counties and the Metro East. Services on its three 40-foot vans include immunizations, physical examinations, hearing and vision screenings, blood tests for anemia and lead, dental care, and asthma management. • Supporting child advocacy and outreach, including injury prevention programs, and a school-based nutrition and exercise program. • Bringing unique summer camps to children with special medical needs, including: • Camp Crescent for kids living with sickle cell disease • Camp Independence for kids living with cerebral palsy and related conditions • Camp Rhythm for children living with heart conditions • Donations make a difference in medical research: • Funding basic and translational pediatric medical research to discover new cures and prevention strategies for childhood diseases. Pediatric medical research is central to the hospital’s mission and distinguishes it as one of the best children’s hospitals in the world.
How We Impact The Community: Pediatric care is complex. It requires state-of-the-art medical equipment and supplies to accommodate the tiniest premature babies to teens on the verge of adulthood. It requires care teams with specialized expertise. It requires child-friendly facilities and special services to meet children’s unique physical and emotional needs and provide support for their families. And it requires pediatric research to advance the care for tomorrow’s children. Philanthropy covers the cost of programs and services that would be impossible to fund under the hospital’s general operating budget. It allows us to provide all the programs and treatments listed above, which are proven to improve patient outcomes yet, are not eligible for reimbursement by insurance companies. Philanthropy allows us to make decisions not according to what makes fiscal sense, but according to what is in keeping with our mission to do what’s right for kids. How You Can Help: Make a gift to St. Louis Children’s Hospital and advocate for our mission to do what’s right for kids. St. Louis Children’s Hospital Foundation 1001 Highlands Plaza Drive, Ste. 160 St. Louis, Missouri 63110 314.286.0988 888.559.9699 StLouisChildrens.org/Giving Facebook: STLChildrens
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THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION Who We Are: The Little Bit Foundation has impacted more than 37,000 St. Louis children since our simple beginnings in 2001. Today, we are a leader in breaking down barriers to learning for students living in poverty through partnerships and programs that serve the needs of the whole child. Our aim is to empower students to achieve their academic goals and dreams for the future, while leaving an imprint of love and hope on young lives for whom a little bit means a lot.
throughout their educational journey. By fall 2019, we will have adopted all 13 schools in the Riverview Gardens School District through our “Project Graduation” initiative, which we believe will positively impact graduation rates and provide a roadmap for other districts and communities. How You Can Help: Little Bit is supported by an army of people from all walks of life and with various strengths. We have many ways for individuals and groups to become involved, share their talents and ideas, and to be an example to children of the meaning of kindness. Volunteers are needed as school representatives, to join our warehouse team, support our literacy programming, join our driving team and to be active participants of boards and committees. We also rely on individuals, corporations and organizations to hold product drives, donate in-kind goods and services, sponsor schools and special events, champion children through monthly gifts and provide monetary support.
What We Do: Through partnerships with area schools, Little Bit is a steady support for students, showing up week in and week out, developing one-on-one relationships with students in order to serve their individual needs and staying for as long as there is a need. Our focus is on serving the needs of the whole child – physical, mental and emotional – developing programs that address a specific barrier of poverty on their education, such as hunger, inadequate clothing and undiagnosed medical or behavioral issues. To do this, we convene the necessary resources and specialized providers to address every area of childhood development, currently affiliating with 14 expert providers in healthcare, literacy and food access.
The Little Bit Foundation 516 Hanley Industrial Court St. Louis, MO 63144 314.669.0040 thelittlebitfoundation.org Facebook: The-Little-Bit-Foundation Twitter: @LittleBitSTL Instagram: littlebitstl
Why We Are Important: Students served by Little Bit live at or below the poverty line, facing a myriad of obstacles that hinder their school attendance and ability to focus and succeed in the classroom. With the support of Little Bit, schools in our area’s most socioeconomically challenged neighborhoods have seen improved student attendance, behavior, self-esteem and classroom readiness. As important, students know, trust and can depend on Little Bit volunteers and staff to be there when so much else in their lives is uncertain.
The Little Bit Board of Directors: Tomea Mersmann, President Michael Amann, Vice President Bob O’Brien, Chair Emeritus Suzie Andrews, Chair Emeritus Rosemary Hanley, Executive Director and Co-founder Marty Akins, Tamiko Armstead, Tom Chelew, Chris Emert, Michael England, Richard E. Fister, Jr., Susan Gausnell, Karen Grasso, Ken Mallin, Connor McCarthy, Karl Petersen, Bob Scheetz, Ann Seeney, Mike Uelk, Rebecca Vidal, Andrew Waltke
How We Impact The Community: Little Bit believes that the value and potential of a community lies in the education of its children. With an ultimate vision of seeing every child we serve graduate college, career or military ready, we are evolving our delivery model to not only meet the child at the beginning of the road but intervene and support
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Stephanie Snow Gebel Founder & Chair Stephanie@thesnowfoundation.org David Bruns Development Advisor david@thesnowfoundation.org Saad Naseer, MD Medical Advisor saad@thesnowfoundation.org
THE SNOW FOUNDATION Who We Are: In the fall of 2010, Raquel Gebel, the five-year-old daughter of Stephanie Snow Gebel and Barclay Gebel, was diagnosed with Wolfram syndrome. When Stephanie learned that there were no drug therapies or cures that exist to treat Wolfram syndrome, she knew she had to do something. The Foundation’s primary purpose was to serve as a collective voice for Wolfram syndrome patients and to raise money to help find a cure. The Snow Foundation has expanded its mission over the last eight years and is now leading a global movement of patients, families, doctors, and researchers who work together to improve the lives of everyone affected by Wolfram syndrome. The Foundation’s new vision is bold: a world free of Wolfram syndrome and other rare diseases. The Snow Foundation accomplishes its mission by making significant investments in promising Wolfram syndrome research, as well as providing critical programs and services that directly improve the lives of patients and their families. The Foundation has three strategic pillars guiding its impact: 1. Accelerate research into effective treatments for Wolfram syndrome and its various symptoms. 2. Connect people affected by Wolfram syndrome with the information and resources they need to live a life of meaning and impact. 3. Mobilize the Wolfram syndrome community to generate resources to maximize progress and impact.
Despite the poor prognosis, Wolfram syndrome patients around the globe now have hope for better treatment options and services that will allow them to live a life of meaning and impact, all because of the work supported through the mission of The Snow Foundation. It is the Foundation’s “Never lose hope” attitude that has taken this rare disease, on which virtually no clinical research was being done, to supporting clinical trials that show promise of slowing its progression. How We Impact the Community: The Snow Foundation provides seed grants to scientists for translational or clinical studies related to development of potential new diagnostics or treatments for Wolfram syndrome. The grant program has funded the first phase drug-repurposing clinical trial of Dantrolene sodium at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The trial focused on the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of the drug (visual acuity, neurological functions and remaining beta cell functions). Phase II of the study is now in the planning stages and will involve both adult and pediatric patients. The Snow Foundation also joined forces with the Association syndrome de Wolfram (France) and the Eye Hope Foundation in (Belgium) to acquire funding for a large-scale project aimed at accelerating the development of new treatments against Wolfram syndrome. The project is coordinated by Professor Timothy Barrett, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. In July 2019, The Snow Foundation and Washing ton University Medical Center will host the 9th annual Wolfram Syndrome Research Clinic, with dozens of patients from the U.S. and two other countries planning to attend. Unlike other clinics, patients do not receive treatment; instead, they all agree to a battery of tests, allowing researchers to study the disease’s progression and to compare that progression across all patients. As an extension of the Research Clinic, The Snow Foundation will also host the First Annual Wolfram Syndrome Community Conference, providing patients and their families, clinicians and researchers the rare opportunity to come together to learn about the latest advances in Wolfram syndrome research and treatment. The conference will allow participants to connect with one another and take action to achieve a shared vision for a better future for those affected by the rare disease.
What We Do: Today, The Snow Foundation is the single largest independent supporter of Wolfram syndrome research in the world, playing a central role in advancing international collaborative research efforts on the disease. It is the hope of the Foundation that by funding this important research, other novel therapies for treating diabetes, vision loss, hearing loss and neurodegeneration might also be identified in the process. The multi-symptom complexity of Wolfram syndrome necessitates a comprehensive approach that uncovers solutions for everyone. Therefore, the Foundation’s research investment strategy is focused on fueling knowledge, speeding better treatments and symptom management therapies, and driving enhancements in the health care delivery for Wolfram syndrome patients. The Snow Foundation also encourages the entire Wolfram syndrome community to come together and share common life experiences, education and mutual aid. This includes helping patients through the complexities of finding a healthcare provider, insurance, IEP’s, access to coverage, employment, and emotional support. By providing these critical resources and support services, The Snow Foundation enables Wolfram syndrome patients, their families and caregivers to powerfully advocate for what they need, when and how they need it.
How You Can Help: The vital work of The Snow Foundation is made possible solely by many generous individuals, corporate partners and foundations who believe strongly in supporting breakthroughs in scientific research that not only impact Wolfram syndrome patients, but millions of people suffering from diabetes and other neurological diseases as well. To watch a child suffer with diabetes, and eventually lose their vision and hearing is unimaginable, but to know that they are deteriorating because of a lack of funding for critical research and support services is truly heartbreaking. Please help give Wolfram syndrome patients and their families hope by supporting The Snow Foundation’s mission today. Individual and corporate sponsorships are available for the First Annual Wolfram Syndrome Community Conference, to be held Saturday, July 13, 2019. For more information, please visit Thesnowfoundation.org.
Why We Are Important: Can you imagine living life with progressive loss of vision, significant hearing loss, loss of balance, bladder issues, a life-long insulin and hormone treatment dependency and the possibility of an early death? This is the experience of more than 30,000 patients around the world living with Wolfram syndrome. In early childhood, children with Wolfram syndrome first develop insulin-dependent diabetes. Unlike common types of diabetes, these children go on to develop blindness, deafness and other neurologic disturbances. The syndrome is progressive and can lead to loss of sense of smell, problems with balance and coordination, muscle spasms and seizures, urinary tract problems, and irregular breathing. Sadly, there are currently no drug therapies, treatments or cures that exist for Wolfram syndrome. Thus, more than 60% of Wolfram syndrome patients die before age 30.
The Snow Foundation P.O. Box 50224 Clayton, MO 63105 636.448.4134 EIN:45-5308117 Thesnowfoundation.org Facebook: thesnowfoundation Instagram:@thesnowfoundation Twitter: @ASnowfoundation
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WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS
Who We Are: Founded in 1853 by a group of civicminded St. Louisans, Washington University has grown to become an internationally recognized center of education, research, patient care, and service. The university comprises five campuses, including the Danforth Campus, located at the western edge of Forest Park, and the medical campus, located in the Central West End.
innovation and entrepreneurship to meet society’s greatest challenges and provide hope for the future. Together, our faculty and students strive to build a better world. How We Impact the Communit y : Throug h our educational programs, we develop hig hly skilled professionals who contribute to economic growth. More than 35,000 of our alumni live and work in St. Louis and provide leadership in area businesses and organizations. We also play a key role in the health of our region by delivering health care to hundreds of thousands of children and adults each year. Our students, faculty, and staff perform more than 7 million hours of volunteer service annually. Through approximately 600 community partnerships, we improve elementary and secondary education, address health disparities, cultivate entrepreneurship, and strengthen our region in many other ways.
What We Do: We educate talented students, advance pioneering research, provide cutting-edge and compassionate care to patients and families, and serve society by developing solutions to urgent problems, both in our home community of St. Louis and throughout the world. • Nearly 16,000 students attend Washington University each year, pursuing studies in undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs. In the 2017-18 academic year, we awarded 4,664 degrees. • Our faculty and students conduct innovative research in a wide variety of areas, including medicine, engineering, law, business, social work, basic sciences, and more. In our last fiscal year, their projects attracted $711.8 million in grant support. • One of the largest academic clinical practices in the nation, Washington University Physicians employs more than 1,500 physicians representing 76 specialties. These clinicians provide patient care at 49 sites throughout the region.
How You Can Help: A gift to Washington University is an investment in a brighter and stronger future. You can support students who hold exceptional promise, faculty who are advancing groundbreaking research and scholarship, and patient care informed by the highest standards and latest advances. Visit gifts.wustl.edu to donate today. Washington University in St. Louis One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO 63130 314.935.5000 (Danforth Campus) 314.362.5000 (Medical Campus) 866.988.7477 (Giving Office) Wustl.edu Facebook: wustl Instagram: @wustl_official Twitter: @wustl
Why We Are Important: Washington University is committed to enhancing the quality of life for people near and far. We prepare talented students for lives of meaning and purpose in their chosen professions and in their communities. Through our highly ranked School of Medicine and campus entities such as the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, we advance human health and improve the well-being of individuals and populations. We inspire
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CHARITY CALENDAR
January 21
St. Louis Arts Awards, keeparthappening.org
February 1 23 24 27-Mar 3
FLAME, cocastl.org/flame 21st Annual “A Night For Newborns,” nursesfornewborns.org A Dose Of Magic, theohhf.com Anat Cohen Quartet, jazzstl.org
March 2 2 3 8 8 9
Music Trivia, thelittlebitfoundation.org Trivia Night, foster-adopt.org The Jewels Gala, stlouisballet.org BLOOM, marygrovechildren.org Jazz St. Louis Gala “Revel For A Cause,” jazzstl.org Lip Sync Live!, jccstl.com/lipsynclive
April 2-4 5 11 17 20 25 25 26 27 27
Branford Marsalis Quartet, jazzstl.org Students of the Year Grand Finale, lls.org Women’s Leadership Circle Annual Luncheon, ppslr.org Table Tops Spring Event, stlouischildrens.org Hunt For A Cure, lls.org Hope In A Handbag, foster-adopt.org Spring Fling, marygrovechildren.org COCAcabana, cocastl.org/flame 20th Birthday Bash, cityacademyschool.org Laura’s Run 4 Kids, thelittlebitfoundation.org
May 10 17 19 22-26 31 31
License to Care, caretolearn.org Man & Woman of the Year Grand Finale, lls.org The Love Run, theohhf.com John Pizzarelli Trio With Catherine Russell: Billie & Blue Eyes, jazzstl.org Rock Out Hunger, stlfoodbank.org St. Louis Children's Hospital Day At Six Flags, stlouischildrens.org
June 3 6 10
Joe Buck Golf Classic, stlouischildrens.org 28th Annual Hat Luncheon, forestparkforever.org/leffingwell Marygrove Golf Tournament, marygrovechildren.org
July 13
First Annual Wolfram Syndrome Community Conference, thesnowfoundation.org
August TBD TBD
Big Fun, thelittlebitfoundation.org Friends of Care to Learn 2nd Annual Golf Tournament, caretolearn.org
September 28 28-29
Light The Night, lls.org Pedal The Cause, pedalthecause.org
October TBD TBD
Join the Journey, thelittlebitfoundation.org Torch Of Liberty Award, adl.org
November 3 8 23
I Heart Food & Wine, theohhf.com A Sizzling Celebration, foster-adopt.org Play Date, stlouischildrenshospital.org
December TBD
Distinguished Service Award For Law Enforcement, adl.org
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Stifel is one of the nation’s leading full-service wealth management and investment banking firms. Since 1890, we have helped individuals, families, and organizations pursue their financial goals. The iconic image of the bull and bear – depicted in bronze at the entrance to our downtown St. Louis headquarters – represents our commitment to using the opposing forces of the market to benefit our clients. As our firm has grown, so too has our involvement with charitable organizations both here in St. Louis and across the country. Individually, our associates give back in ways large and small to charities throughout the region. As you consider how to help the charities that are important to you, a Stifel financial advisor can help you develop a deliberate, well-planned approach to giving. Your advisor will work with you to help you determine how – and how much – to give, integrating your philanthropic objectives into your overall investment plan. Giving back is an incredibly rewarding experience. If you’re looking to maximize the benefit of your charitable donations, both for you and the charities you support, reach out to a financial advisor for help. For corporate/event sponsorship opportunities and partnerships, please e-mail us at this address: StifelCommunity@Stifel.com.
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“With an integrated approach to the industry, a can-do attitude towards every problem and collaboration with only the brightest stars in the industry, we’ve been able to bring our clients’ visions to life and create inspired buildings that help them reach their goals. As the new economy emerges our revolutionary approach to technology has enabled us to help our clients thrive. Beyond these walls, we’ve had the chance to work with impactful charities and government leaders to build the cities and communities in which we work. Our people have embraced this goal, driven to go above and beyond in the community the same way that they do for our clients, and I couldn’t be prouder of their work ethic and spirit.” – Bob Clark, CEO Mission: Clayco is a full-service, turnkey real estate, architecture, engineering, design-build and construction firm that delivers clients around the world the highest quality solutions on time, on budget and above and beyond expectations. Vision: The Clayco culture is built on building more than structures. We believe our projects are building communities, and that the jobs don’t stop when the projects open. We partner with the communities in which we operate, and we are in it for the long haul, giving time, energy, and resources to the projects and charities that can help build these communities. It is, and will always be, an important part of our identity. We are working with nonprofit organizations to support education, the arts, medical research, disaster relief and opportunities for minorities, youth and the underprivileged. For more information about Clayco sponsorship opportunities, please contact: Tasha Turnbough, Project Marketing and Communications Manager Special Events 314.592.2200 turnbought@claycorp.com Clayco.com
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The Kranzberg Arts Foundation is a community-driven organization dedicated to providing local artists and arts organizations the resources and infrastructure necessary for the arts to thrive in St. Louis. Through the development of performing arts venues, visual art galleries, artist-focused programs, and workspaces for nonprofit arts organizations, the foundation nurtures the growth of artists, while working with emerging and leading arts institutions to engage with St. Louis’ greater community in ways that are relevant, inclusive, and inspiring. We hope that others are inspired to become patrons of the arts by visiting a gallery, attending a play, watching a dance performance, or listening to live music. Our venues offer patrons an abundance of opportunities to engage with the arts. With more than 600 dance and theatre performances, 400 opportunities for free live music, and over 15 free visual art exhibits a year, we invite you to join us in uplifting and celebrating our city's artists. We give because we believe artists and the cultural communities they build represent the heart and soul of our city. Our need-based, ground-up approach to giving is at the heart of our mission to make St. Louis a true destination for artists to thrive and a more inspiring and interesting place for us all to live. Artists and arts organizations interested in learning more should visit kranzbergartsfoundation.org or pick up a copy of our Soul of the City magazine in any of our venues.
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$2.4 million
868 nonprofits 40% new donors $200,000 in prizes
Give STL Day, an initiative of the St. Louis Community Foundation, is a 24-hour, online day-of-giving event, designed to ignite the spirit of giving in the St. Louis region where we live, work and play.
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save the date May 2019
Dear friends, neighbors, and colleagues Many of us give because it feels good, it is the right thing to do, or we are simply asked. What we have found at the St. Louis Community Foundation, however, is that the act of giving – or philanthropy – can be so much more. It can be joyful, contagious and connect us. Giving enables us to come together to solve problems, support organizations that have made a difference in our lives, or even enable us to leave a lasting legacy for the community we love and call home – the St. Louis region. There is also the transformative impact philanthropy can have. Consider the Magic House, the renovation of the Gateway Arch grounds and museum, and St. Louis Youth Jobs, a program that offers career- and life-skills training for regional young people. All of these were donor-sponsored initiatives at the St. Louis Community Foundation. But this is not just about the Community Foundation. Take a moment to think about other efforts across the region spearheaded by generosity, vision and energy. Transformation and community bridge-building make giving possible. That’s why the St. Louis Community Foundation powers Give STL Day, which enables everyone with $10 or more to be a philanthropist for a day and support organizations they know, those they would like to know, and a few they’ve just heard about. Give STL Day 2019 will be held from midnight to midnight on Wednesday, May 1. Whether it is through Give STL Day, our locally managed donor advised funds, foundation management services, or legacy-building efforts, our donors are community change agents. Collectively, they gave more than $80 million to nonprofits in 2017, with more than 85 percent of those funds remaining here in St. Louis.
Consider joining us! Visit stlgives.org. Amelia Bond President & CEO St. Louis Community Foundation
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