A panel of honorees celebrated for their innovation in corporate giving in St. Louis said creativity is a fuel that can lead to successful philanthropic partnerships.
Malik Oliphant had a front-row view of entrepreneurship growing up in St. Louis.
His mother, Jeanette Ware, owned Happy’s Convenience Store in Ferguson and his aunt ran a local catering business. That sparked an interest in entrepreneurship for Oliphant, who has incorporated lessons, namely “to really go after it,” from his mother and aunt into businesses he’s launched on his own.
“If it's something you really want to do, don't stop. That's the main thing that I took,” Oliphant said.…
Adam Cisroe Pearson, currently chief operating officer for homeless services provider Peter & Paul Community Services, was appointed director of the Department of Human Services for the city of St. Louis, effective May 30.
As of mid-February, six prosecutors in the St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office had more than 470 felony cases split between them – and now, there are only two.
Sources familiar with his departure confirm Assistant Circuit Attorney Nick Lake has announced his last day with the office is April 28.
Lake’s exit marks the latest in a series of resignations from St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s office in recent weeks. He was listed as the attorney of record on seven trials through the end…
PowerPlex, the $55 million youth sports complex that had long been planned at the former St. Louis Mills mall in Hazelwood, will not be part of the mall’s redevelopment currently underway and will cease operation of its existing sports fields there.
A St. Louis cannabis firm that closed last year amid disputes among founders is to be liquidated, attorneys said, with manufacturing licenses and interest in real estate under contract.
A board that governs the city of St. Louis' economic development agency on Thursday approved two local projects for $13 million in federal tax credits.
Cincinnati-based freight brokerage firm Total Quality Logistics said Thursday it is expanding its operations in St. Louis, with plans to add dozens of jobs locally.
As part of the architectural program at Kansas University, Chrissy Hill Rogers traveled the summer before her senior year to Italy and Spain with her fellow students. She said that experience is when she became “totally all in, about my passion for architecture.”.
The act of giving back to St. Louis nonprofits and causes, whether it be through cash, volunteer time or through the donation of goods and services, is a company’s way of recognizing that their good fortune comes, in large part, from the community it serves or lives within.
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.
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