Three-Year Grant

St. Louis Story Stitchers Artists Collective: $100,00 (grant of $33,333 per year beginning in 2020)

StitchCast Studio provides discussion-based education programming with artist-mentors and youth-led podcast recordings that incorporate the arts.  Podcasts will focus on the streets, gun violence, and finding solutions to issues that are coming at our youth hard. 

One-Year Grants

Angels’ Arms – $20,000

Supports foster families, keeping siblings together, providing homes, resources, and emotional support to foster parents to raise the standard of care for foster children.

Caring for Kids – $14,625

Funding for the Beds and Bedding project gives children safety and security, ensuring safe and secure sleep, and good all-around health.

EarthDance – $25,000

Equips communities with the resources and skills to grow food for themselves and others, in a way that shares power and capital, stewards the land, and prioritizes ecological values and human rights.

Gateway to Oral Health Foundation – $25,000

Provides preventive and comprehensive oral health care to children and youth in need, regardless of their family’s ability to pay.

Lift for Life Gym – $15,000

Offers children in St. Louis city a safe, enriching environment in which to strengthen their bodies, enrich their minds, develop healthy relationships, and learn to make positive life choices.

Migrant and Immigrant Community Action Project (MICA) – $25,000

The Crisis Response Fund will facilitate emergency response for immigrants facing personal or larger-scale crises that require a legal or case management response.

The Breakfast Club – $20,000

Raises awareness of the disparities in breast cancer death rates and increases access to mammography screening and breast exams to uninsured and underinsured women.

Welcome Neighbor – $25,000

Partners with refugee and immigrant families, connecting them with the people and opportunities that empowers them to build and live their best life in their new country.