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Black Lives Matter: An Institutional Commitment
Deaconess Foundation envisions a community that values the health and well-being of all children and gives priority attention to the most vulnerable. This community only thrives if the allocation of …Learn More
Collaborative Launches $2 Million Regional Racial Healing Fund
Funding Will Support Racial Justice Movement in St. Louis June 11, 2020 Deaconess Foundation, Forward Through Ferguson, and Missouri Foundation for Health have collaborated to establish the St. Louis Regional …Learn More
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Racial Healing Is Critical to [Economic] Recovery
by Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson On April 14, when St. Louis was under shelter-in-place orders due to COVID-19, Walter Johnson, a Missouri native and professor at Harvard University released a …Learn More
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Missouri Health Care for All
Missouri Health Care for All (MHCFA) is the only permanent, statewide organization in Missouri focused solely on grassroots mobilization on health..Read more
Action St. Louis Tenant Organizing
Action St. Louis is the Deaconess Foundation’s Reverend Buck Jones Memorial Grant for Tenant Organizing partner, Rev. Starsky Wilson, president..Read more
St. Francis Community Services
St. Francis Community Services received a Responsive Grant for “Justice for Immigrant Youth & Families.” While St. Francis has done..Read more
2020 Public Policy Campaign Partners
During the Just 4 Kids Community Conversation on November 18, 2019 we announced an investment of $100,000 to support a..Read more
East St. Louis Moms Testify Before U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Parents United for Change, a chapter of Deaconess Foundation’s Just for Kids Anchor Institution, Community Organizing Family Issues (COFI) has..Read more
Powerful Work from Our Partners
Deaconess Foundation envisions a community that values the health and well-being of all children and gives priority attention to the most..Read more
Forward Through Ferguson
After the death of Michael Brown, Jr. on Aug. 9, 2014, “Ferguson” came to symbolize racial strife and inequality in..Read more
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Grateful to be in community with @CLOSEWorkhouse, @ActionSTL @ArchCityDefense, @bailproject & so many others whose vision & commitment brings us to this moment in the movement where policy is introduced to #closetheWorkhouse.
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A thread worth reading.
Power is in the People.
Grateful to be in community with @CLOSEWorkhouse, @ActionSTL @ArchCityDefense, @bailproject & so many others whose vision & commitment brings us to this moment in the movement where policy is introduced to #closetheWorkhouse.
Last night we learned that @PresReed is going to introduce policy to #closetheWorkhouse at tomorrow’s meeting.
This win belongs to the people who made closing the workhouse possible.
Just Released - Our June eNewsletter | http://ow.ly/lqAy50AiRRM
This edition features: Our Governing Boards' institutional commitment to the wider movement for racial justice + announcement of investments in/commitments to @Mvmnt4BlkLives, @ABFE & Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference
A thread worth reading.
Power is in the People.
Grateful to be in community with @CLOSEWorkhouse, @ActionSTL @ArchCityDefense, @bailproject & so many others whose vision & commitment brings us to this moment in the movement where policy is introduced to #closetheWorkhouse.
Last night we learned that @PresReed is going to introduce policy to #closetheWorkhouse at tomorrow’s meeting.
This win belongs to the people who made closing the workhouse possible.
Just Released - Our June eNewsletter | http://ow.ly/lqAy50AiRRM
This edition features: Our Governing Boards' institutional commitment to the wider movement for racial justice + announcement of investments in/commitments to @Mvmnt4BlkLives, @ABFE & Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference
Even if you haven't phonebanked before, our partners @YesOn2MO are providing training TODAY and all weekend to help expand Medicaid in Missouri! Register to attend today's phonebanking training and make sure you say YES to Medicaid expansion! Register: https://www.mobilize.us/healthcareformissouri/event/282935/
