Community Outreach to Diversity Organizations

The Ark of Safety Center, Inc., is a non-profit faith-based organization committed to restoring addicted and non-addicted individuals from the life altering decisions that have kept them in bondage. The Center provides housing and supportive services to men and women seeking peace and guidance towards healthy living and restoring their families. Christian values, morals and social principles is the Center's primary focus. With proper support and focus, participants will renew their confidence and return to their families and community.

The Campus Kitchens Project empowers thousands of students each year to recycle food from their cafeterias, turn these donations into nourishing meals, and deliver those meals (along with a friendly visit) to those who need it most in communities across the country. Then, we open up that on-campus kitchen space to teach culinary skills to unemployed men and women, who in turn teach the college students a thing or two about poverty, stereotypes, and what it takes to make it these days.

Gateway Homeless Services encompasses the programs of Christian Service Center and Someone Cares Mission. We began in 1975 as a community center, founded by local businessman, Robert Nelson. Today, Gateway Homeless Services is the largest and most comprehensive emergency shelter in Missouri. It provides 150 beds and numerous social services to homeless women, children and families.

The mission of Connections to Success is to empower determined individuals with a plan and resources to achieve economic self-reliance. Programs under Connections to Success include Dress For Success, Professional Women's Group, Wheels For Success, Wheels of Hope, and Faith and Family.

Covenant House Missouri provides shelter and supportive services to homeless, runaway and at-risk youth with absolute respect and unconditional love. The Community Service Center is located near Tower Grove Park and is open Monday through Friday. Youth (both residents and non-residents) come for a variety of services geared toward getting them on their feet. Last year, the CSC served 507 youth. Its job classes help youth get and keep a job - teaching them to prepare resumes, coaching them on how to interview, and assisting with placement.

Employment Connection’s mission is to ‘assist individuals with limited opportunities to self-sufficiency through employment’. Founded as a result of a study by the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis Young Lawyers (BAMSL). Employment Connection provides free employment services to persons who have difficulty finding and maintaining employment and to St. Louis area businesses who are seeking qualified job applicants.

Feed My People, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, is a rehabilitative help center. In addition to dispensing food supplies, we offer job counseling, budget guidance and other instructive services designed to assist our clients in their quest to get back on their feet. Feed My People is an interdenominational help center in Saint. Louis County, Missouri providing compassionate care for people in need. We offer our clients a helping hand in their time of need - NOT a way of life!

Founded in 1980 by parents and friends of adults with mental illnesses, Independence Center (IC) created its network of programs and services using the values and principles of the Clubhouse model of psychosocial rehabilitation. Independence Center is a Place that Works! We are the place for people with mental illnesses who seek to return to work. We focus on helping our members obtain, maintain and upgrade employment because we know how important work is in everyone's life.

Jobs for Life™ is a rapidly expanding movement rooted in the guiding principle that to lift people out of joblessness, hopelessness, despair, poverty and the roadblocks of circumstance, they need far more than just a job. They need to have a life. A life filled with understanding, confidence, self-control, coaching, learning, guidance, and faith. Our mission to to equip churches and faith-based organizations to provide job training and support enabling everyone to secure meaningful employment.

Kingdom House is a social service agency which has been serving residents of the Near Southside of Saint Louis since 1902. Its building facilities and staff resources are directed toward organizing groups of residents to develop resources to meet their needs, problems, and mutual concerns. The Near Southside Employment Coalition provides employment placement services including on-site training of automated office/customer service skills, basic skills testing, career assessment and planning, job readiness skills training and GED classes.

The National Council of Jewish Women is a volunteer organization that has been at the forefront of social change for over a century. Inspired by Jewish values, NCJW courageously takes a progressive stance on issues such as child welfare, women's rights, and reproductive freedom. NCJW works through research, education, advocacy and community service to improve the quality of life for women, children and families, and to ensure individual rights and freedoms for all.

Through our One-Stop Caring Center, clients have easy access to innovative outreach, stabilization, education, employment, and housing programs. The St. Patrick Center team, working with our partner agencies, strives to house the homeless and provide the necessary support services to achieve our vision of Homeless No More for each client.

Veterans For Peace, Inc. (VFP) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) educational and humanitarian organization dedicated to the abolishment of war. To achieve these goals, members of Veterans For Peace pledge to use non-violent means and to maintain an organization that is both democratic and open with the understanding that all members are trusted to act in the best interests of the group for the larger purpose of world peace.