Seeding the Future Grants These grants are for general operating funds to advance an organization’s efforts to promote health justice and social justice through coalition and base-building, grassroots advocacy, community organizing and/or public policy development/change while aiming to improve conditions for community-level well-being. Seeding the Future Grants are designed to be responsive to systems-change partners’...

Deaconess Community, In the recent past, we have seen a disturbing trend. Legislators at federal and state levels are exerting their influence across the country and in our region to create roadblocks to accessibility, impeding the civil liberties of minoritized people. Instead of using the positions that have been granted to them by the people...

In its third cycle, the Community Governance Board is dispersing the largest sum of grants in the Fund’s history to support education, arts, maternal health, youth mentorship, urban farming, and more ST. LOUIS, MO (July 26, 2023) — The Community Governance Board (CGB) of the St. Louis Regional Racial Healing + Justice Fund announced that it...

The Heartland of America, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers is home to Deaconess Foundation and our mission. The great Mississippi River unites the east and west, connecting Illinois and Missouri. Since Deaconess Foundation began grantmaking in 1998, our bi-state footprint has included St. Clair, Madison and Monroe Counties in Illinois and...