World Wide Technology Raceway's Raceway Gives program partners with the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Center in East St. Louis, allowing the center's young members to spend time at the track for hands-on STEM education experiences.
Edward Jones and the University of Missouri-St. Louis co-lead the St. Louis Anchor Action Network. This coalition of local leaders in health care, higher education and the public and private sectors who are focused on improving equity by increasing the number of employees they hire and the amount of money they spend in local neighborhoods with high poverty rates.
The health care system last year began depositing part of its balance sheet with the bank, which uses the funds to make loans to economically challenged people and businesses in 22 zip codes in north city and north county that don’t have easy access to traditional banking services.
The St. Louis-based financial services firm donated nearly $430,000 in total cash donations in 2022. With revenue just short of $40 million, this made Royal Banks of Missouri the firm with the highest cash donations as a percentage of its revenue.
Edward Jones donated $17.5 million locally in 2022, putting the firm second on our Biggest Corporate Philanthropists - Large Companies List. The firm says that its philanthropy and volunteer opportunities not only gives back to its community, but help recruit and retain talent.
Keeley Cos., with about 975 total employees and companywide revenue of $440.6 million in 2022, contributed more than $2 million in cash and in-kind giving to the St. Louis region last year.
Anti-diversity budget language called a “job killer” by the Missouri Chamber of Commerce didn’t survive the Senate Appropriations Committee Wednesday, as the panel wrapped up its work on the state spending plan for the coming year.
Over two days of work, the committee added more than $3 billion to the House-approved budget for state operations in the coming fiscal year. The biggest items added Wednesday were $300 million for the Department of Mental Health to build a new psychiatric hospital…
Town and County-based Elessent Clean Technologies, which provides process technologies for manufacturers, has been tapped to develop a sulfuric acid regeneration plant in China.
The city of St. Louis anticipates spending 7.1% more in fiscal 2024, to $1.32 billion, driven by employee pay increases.
City Budget Director Paul Payne made an initial presentation to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, the three-member top fiscal body, on Wednesday, the first in a series of steps toward finalizing the budget, which takes effect July 1.
Estimate and Apportionment, made up of Mayor Tishaura Jones, Aldermanic President Megan Green and Comptroller Darlene Green, is to meet April…
St. Charles County Executive Steve Ehlmann on Wednesday appointed Joseph McCulloch to be the county's prosecuting attorney, following the resignation last month of Tim Lohmar.
Of the many lessons recent history has taught the business community, two stand out. First, despite advances in machine learning and increasingly powerful analytics, the future remains largely unpredictable. Second, the most resilient companies are those that are prepared for uncertainty. By anticipating the future, these companies develop ways to safeguard against their own obsolescence. You, too, can help future-proof your business by embracing ways to minimize the shocks and stresses the future…
Lobbyists representing conservative philanthropist and activist Rex Sinquefield are making a push against a state takeover of the city of St. Louis' police department, giving St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones a powerful ally in efforts to defeat the proposal in the final weeks of Missouri's legislative session.
STL TechWeek will take place next week, with 30 events planned from April 24-28 to spotlight all things technology in St. Louis. Its schedule includes industry conferences, networking events, career development programming, startup expos and technology tours and demonstrations.
The site is next to a shopping center with an Imo’s Pizza location and other businesses, and is close to Balkan Treat Box’s first brick and mortar location, which opened in 2019.
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