Dutchtown South Community Corporation (DSCC)’s mission is to advance neighborhood vitality through community empowerment, housing stabilization and real estate development. Their work addresses disparities faced by marginalized communities in the Dutchtown, Marine Villa, Mount Pleasant, Gravois Park, and Benton Park West neighborhoods of the City of St. Louis. The majority of residents are Black, are paid low wages, and face …
Beyond Housing is a nationally recognized, comprehensive community development organization dedicated to transforming the St. Louis region’s under-resourced communities to create a stronger, more equitable, and prosperous St. Louis for all. Their work brings civic leaders, targeted nonprofits, corporate partners, and residents together to create meaningful and lasting change. Deaconess Foundation provides funding to Beyond Housing through the Responsive Grant …
The Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition (FAAC) strives to create permanency in foster children’s lives by recruiting and supporting foster and adoptive families in the metropolitan St. Louis region. Only 13% of local, non-relative foster parents are African American/Black. In comparison, twice the number of African American children are placed into foster care over Caucasian children. FAAC’s RESPOND program seeks …
St. Louis Art Place Initiative’s mission is to build wealth and equity for low-to-moderate-income artists through homeownership. The Initiative was formed in 2017 around a community mandate and effort to design and implement a plan for affordable for-sale housing to artists in Gravois Park. The neighborhood is exceptionally artist-dense and artists – as predominantly low-income earners – were among the …