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Our July Jeans BeCause recipient was Riverbend Head Start & Family Services. For over 90 years, Riverbend Head Start & Family Services has embodied itself in their mission to serve those living in Madison County.  

Starting in 1916, a group of civic-minded individuals created a family oriented agency named Alton Public (Welfare) Council with a mission to help impoverished mothers care for their own children, and to provide care to people in their own homes.

In 1923 Alton Visiting Nurse Association merged ...

The Daniel and Henry Co. leads by example

June 30, 2015: St. Louis, MO—Employees at The Daniel and Henry Co. were up for the challenge this year to get in shape, lose weight, eat healthier and get active! After completing 2 quarters in “The Biggest Winner” challenge, Daniel and Henry’s team is 854.8 pounds lighter. And two local charities, St. Louis Area Foodbank and The Humane Society of Missouri, benefitted from all of this weight loss.

How’d they do it?

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Our October Jeans BeCause recipient was United Cerebral Palsy Heartland. For the last 60 years, UCP Heartland has helped to enhance the quality of life of people with cerebral palsy and other disabilities, their families, and their communities. UCP believes that individuals with even the most challenging disabilities have the right to quality education and transition services, integrated employment opportunities with competitive wages and career opportunities. They also promote full inclusion in community life by providing resource and referral, advocacy, and ...

Urban Strategies was our August Jeans BeCause recipient. Urban Strategies Inc. is a national nonprofit with extensive experience in implementing place-based human capital development strategies in public housing communities that are undergoing comprehensive physical revitalization. Founded in 1978, Urban Strategies works to help communities build safe neighborhoods, enhanced schools, and a range of comprehensive human service supports. Their work is focused in urban core residential communities and is designed to build social and economic mobility for low-income families living in ...