Beyond Housing Nominated for $15,000 Award from FHLB. Please Vote to Help the 24:1 Community Win!
We’re excited to announce that Beyond Housing’s work in Pagedale Town Center has been nominated for a FHLB Strong Communities Award. The award recognizes the impact of small business and economic development projects on creating stronger communities. Winners are chosen through a public vote. Please help support the 24:1 Community by voting early and often […]
Beyond Housing Partners with Cincinnati Agencies to Build a Culture of Health
We’re thrilled to announce that Beyond Housing has received $20,000 to take part in a peer-learning initiative between community organizations in St. Louis and Cincinnati. This effort will look at the social determinants of health, focusing on the ways in which community leaders and organizations can improve youth engagement, community policing, and community development to […]
We’d Like to Thank All Our Sponsors and Guests for Making Beyond Housing’s Inaugural Casino Night a Huge Success!
We would like to thank you for joining us on our inaugural Casino Night this past Friday. Being our first year hosting this type of event, we didn’t know exactly what to expect. But thanks to you, it was a huge success and a whole lot of fun —especially for the communities we serve as community development […]
St. Louis Business Community Invests in Local Organizations to Strengthen the Region’s Neighborhoods
Civic Progress, Regional Business Council invest $1,040,000 to rebuild communities Today, members of Civic Progress and the Regional Business Council, whose companies represent more than 125 of the region’s leading businesses, announced $1,040,000 in new funding for several local organizations aimed at strengthening the area’s underserved neighborhoods. In addition, another $1,200,000 worth of in-kind contributions […]
Home Buyers Get Government Help with Down payments
Ben Eisen and Laura Kusisto Maiya Jones didn’t have money saved up for a down payment when she started looking for a house in the St. Louis area last summer. Her real-estate agent told her about a program that would cover the 3.5% required on a Federal Housing Administration-insured mortgage for those who meet certain […]
Pine Lawn and Northwoods Celebrating New Transformations with Pine Lawn Community Park Grand Opening
Community leaders and residents of the City of Pine Lawn and City of Northwoods will be celebrating community partnerships and progress with the Pine Lawn Community Park Grand Opening on Saturday, June 1st 2019. The event commemorates the completion of both Pine Lawn Community Park and Pasadena Parkway—a new walkable environment along Pasadena Blvd. Both […]
Humanity in the Middle
Bridging the Gap Between People of Color and the Police Since the inception of the North County Police Cooperative, we have partnered with Beyond Housing on many different community related initiatives. From Movie Nights in Pagedale to a United States Armed Forces Veteran’s home rehab project in Pine Lawn. We are proud to work side […]
Four Municipalities in the 24:1 Community Win Municipal Tree Grants
Four municipalities within 24:1 Community have received an award of up to $10,000 from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) through its Tree Resource Improvement and Maintenance (TRIM) cost-share grant program. The municipalities are Cool Valley, Glen Echo Park, Uplands Park, and Greendale. Beyond Housing wrote grants in coordination with 13 municipalities within the 24:1 […]
Beyond Housing’s Anti-Bias and Anti-Racism Commitment
Beyond Housing seeks to be accountable in our work, especially to communities of color, to hold the principles of social justice, equal rights, and equitable opportunity and access at the core of everything we do. Beyond Housing recognizes that racism is a barrier to the effective delivery of our mission and acknowledges that racism and […]
How Home Affects Health
Amy Gillman of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation A safe, secure home is where health begins. To build more equitable, healthier communities, we need to boost people’s ability to afford a good place to live. A roof over our heads. Shelter from the storm. A beautiful day in the neighborhood. Home is where the heart […]
