Community enhancement grants

United Way annually offers one-time community enhancement grants to member and non-member agencies to serve smaller communities in our service area, fund new and emerging issues or build community relations.

These grants target particular topics each year and are distributed by trained community volunteers. If you'd like to volunteer to serve on a grant panel, contact Vanessa.Wayne@stl.unitedway.org.

Agencies: find grants to apply for here

2010 grants

One-time grants were awarded in the following areas:

Youth services in East St. Louis ($127,200 total): Employment Connection, Griffin Center, Hoyleton Youth and Family Services, Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House, Violence Prevention Center of Southwestern Illinois

Food pantries ($50,000 total): Boys & Girls Club of St. Charles County, Call for Help, Foster Adoption Support Group, Hamilton Heights Neighborhood Organization, Joint Neighborhood Ministry, Kingdom House, Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, Outreach Assistance Serving Individuals in St. Charles County (O.A.S.I.S. Food Pantry), Shalom House, Sts. Joachim and Ann Care Service

Energy efficiency ($30,000 total): Catholic Urban Programs, Disability Resource Association, Human Development Corporation, Peter & Paul Community Services, SGSM Network, Sts. Joachim and Ann Care Service

Meal delivery for seniors and disabled ($28,000 total): Lincoln County Council on Aging, Northside Community Center, Senior Services Plus, St. Louis Area Agency on Aging

Transitions job training for women ($24,464 total): International Institute of Metropolitan St. Louis

Transitional housing ($20,000 total): Center for Women in Transition, Holy Angels Shelter

Basic needs - Warren County ($15,000 total): 12th Circuit Diversion Court Community Action Panel, Agape Ministry of Warren County, Delta Center for Independent Living, North East Community Action Corporation, St. Vincent DePaul Society - Holy Rosary Council, Youth In Need

Basic needs - Clinton County ($4,000 total): Clinton County Senior Services, Community Link, First United Methodist Church, West Gate Baptist Church

Basic needs - Monroe County ($4,000 total): Catholic Social Services of Southern Illinois, Human Support Services, National Kidney Foundation, Western Egyptian Economic Opportunity Council

Basic needs - St. Clair County ($4,000 total): Asthma & Allergy Foundation of America St. Louis Chapter, Catholic Urban Programs, Girls on the Run St. Louis, Pilgrim Green Incorporated

Basic needs - Randolph County ($3,000 total): Catholic Social Services of Southern Illinois, Violence Prevention Center of Southwestern Illinois, Western Egyptian Economic Opportunity Council

2009 grants 

United Way gave one-time grants totaling about $101,500 in the areas of:

• Girl empowerment
• Transition to financial independence
• Disaster recovery
• Youth health literacy
• Neighborhood violence impact
• Youth services
• Senior programming
• Projects in Clinton County
• Youth services in Randolph County
• Basic needs in St. Charles County
• Basic needs in Warren County
• Basic needs in Lincoln County

2008 grants 

United Way gave one-time grants totaling about $450,000 in the areas of:

• Bilingual international assistant services
• Healthy mothers and babies
• Medical screenings for low-income women
• Employment assistance and training for low-income women
• Monroe and St. Clair counties senior services
• Healthy eating and fitness
• At-risk youth in Randolph and Clinton counties
• The sandwich generation
• Warren and Lincoln counties social services enhancement
• Micro-lending and micro-enterprise development for low-income women
• New Americans in St. Charles County
• Increasing the capacity of food pantries
• Tangible items for domestic violence shelters
• Start-up and seed funding for new programming for women and girls

2007 grants

United Way gave one-time grants totaling about $208,500 in the areas of:

• Indigent elderly
• Warren County infrastructure enhancement
• Language translation
• Peer harassment
• Clinton and Randolph counties senior services
• Youth and family obesity
• College preparation
• Senior services in North City
• Prescription assistance