Current Partners - Deaconess Foundation

Partner Highlights

MOVE

The Missouri Organizing and Voter Engagement Collaborative (MOVE) exists to empower ordinary people to reclaim democracy in the state of Missouri. MOVE’s role is behind-the-scenes, supporting grassroots movement organizations in developing and executing strategic integrated voter engagement (IVE) plans. As part of MOVE’s strategy, they are broadening the number of...

Children’s Advocates for Change

Children’s Advocates for Change promotes the needs of Illinois children through public forums, social media, and advocacy work with elected officials. Through data collection and analysis, they consider the whole picture of the whole child including health, education, economic security, family, community – and beyond. With a focus on healing...

The T

The T is a nonprofit organization that promotes holistic healing from trauma related to bullet injuries and overdose in St. Louis. They transform healthcare delivery through education and anti-racist, relationship-based care. The T was founded in 2019, by Dr. LJ Punch, a trauma surgeon and community advocate who is committed...

Action St. Louis and United Congregations of Metro East

The greater St. Louis region experienced historic flooding in late July, with the most devastating impact located in predominantly Black communities. Action St. Louis has led an effort (in partnership with Arch City Defenders, Faith for Justice, and Black Men Build) to launch a rapid response infrastructure including wellness check-ins, direct assistance,...

Freedom Community Center

The Freedom Community Center (FCC) is a Black-led organization in North St. Louis that was founded to dismantle systems of oppression that inflict harm and trauma on Black communities in St. Louis City, particularly the police and the criminal punishment system. They ground themselves in the knowledge that Black survivors...

Kids Win Missouri

Kids Win Missouri began in 2013 as a small group of children’s advocacy stakeholders seeking to ensure children have a voice in Missouri’s legislative arena. Then called the Missouri Children’s Leadership Council, the organization has since become Kids Win Missouri. Their mission is to further child well-being by advancing the...

ArchCity Defenders

ArchCity Defenders (ACD) is a holistic legal advocacy organization that combats the criminalization of poverty and state violence, especially in communities of color. ACD’s foundation of civil and criminal legal representation, social services, impact litigation, policy and media advocacy, and community collaboration achieves and inspires justice and equitable outcomes for...

The Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis

The Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis (SFSTL) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1920, and it is rooted in the conviction that an educated society is essential to a healthy democracy. SFSTL provides access to postsecondary education to members of our community who otherwise would not have the financial means...

St. Louis American Foundation

The St. Louis American, the only African-American newspaper continuously published since 1928 and the longest continuously published weekly newspaper in the St. Louis area, established The St. Louis American Foundation in 1994. The St. Louis American Foundation is dedicated to enabling the African-American community to increase its access to careers...

Missouri Jobs with Justice

Missouri Jobs with Justice’s mission is to organize Missourians to build transformative power for social, racial, and economic justice in our state. JwJ believes that strong relationships rooted in justice, equity and solidarity are necessary for building transformative power for social, racial, and economic justice. Their vision is of a...

Forward Through Ferguson

After the death of Michael Brown, Jr. on Aug. 9, 2014, “Ferguson” came to symbolize racial strife and inequality in the United States. Throughout this country, the circumstances surrounding and following his death have sharply defined the challenges that demand transformation. The alternative to change is to accept an untenable...

Leading Liberation Retreat Series

As an institution grounded in the pursuit of healing, Deaconess Foundation seeks to invest in holistic opportunities for enhanced health and well-being for leaders of color. In recognition of the deep and intensive work of movement building for organizers, advocates, and Black leaders across the bi-state region, we are offering...

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 and CEO of Deaconess Foundation, announced on Monday, December 9 at the foundation’s Just for Kids Community Conversation. The $40,000 grant will go to support tenant engagement and organizing of...

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 2020 collaborative public policy Campaign to Achieve Medicaid Expansion and Democracy Reform. Missouri Jobs with Justice and Action St. Louis are collaborating campaign partners focused on mobilizing their combined base among uninsured or underinsured...

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