Archive of Collaborations
Search here for information on the Foundation’s past and current collaborative projects and partners:
Mission: St. Louis
empowers people to transform their lives, families, and neighborhoods through culturally-relevant programs that address critical states in the cycle of poverty.
Rise
partners with communities to build stronger, more equitable St. Louis area neighborhoods.
National Council of Jewish Women
is a grassroots organization of volunteers and advocates who turn progressive ideals into action. They created Healing Hearts Bank to build a community of women assisting women through the provision of non-traditional loans for survivors of domestic violence and women in poverty.
Dutchtown South Community Corporation
is an anchor institution in the process of carrying out a community based planning initiative for Dutchtown and surrounding neighborhoods. This process includes community engagement, community planning, market research, physical design, and social services.
Our Priorities
At the heart of the foundation, we value efforts to advance equity, opportunity, & human dignity. These efforts often address the following topics, though Racial Equity is the overarching, all-encompassing priority for each organization or project we fund.
“Funding neighborhood work fosters systemic change by addressing the root causes of poverty and oppression. It fosters the confidence within individuals to dream while simultaneously creating access to the tools and resources needed to achieve those dreams.” — IWF Executive Summary, 2019