Exciting news for all baseball fans and young people in the 24:1 Community: The St. Louis Cardinals will be dedicating a new baseball field, Matt Carpenter Field, in Pagedale this Thursday at 9:30 a.m.

Thank you to our partners Novo Nordisk, Affinia Healthcare, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, Sneakers with Soul and the Normandy Schools Collaborative for making this year’s Beyond the Backpack event a huge success!

Novo Nordisk—a global pharmaceutical company and innovative pioneer in diabetes and chronic conditions care—will be donating 3,000 backpacks filled with school supplies and other essentials for Beyond Housing’s Beyond the Backpack event.

Each year, up to 3,000 backpacks filled with school supplies are handed out to students Pre K-12 to ensure that students and families have everything they need for a successful school year.

Leaders from Gateway Design Studio, Beyond Housing and the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District recently celebrated the $5.6 million completion of the Pine Lawn Community Park and Pasadena Boulevard Parkway.

The highlight of the project is the transformation of vacant, derelict buildings into the 3.3-acre Pine Lawn Community Park—a new neighborhood park and hub for community activity that includes a playground, walking paths, and a multipurpose field.

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 better support the health of entire communities. Beyond Housing and partner organizations will visit Cincinnati in August for a peer-learning symposium to share knowledge and best practices around these key issues. J

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Beyond Housing requests proposals on brokerage services to support the procurement of Health Insurance Benefits on behalf of the 24:1 Municipal Partnership communities.