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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 ...

Our June recipient, the St. Louis Area Food Bank began its service to the community in 1975. They started out in an office space on Lindell Boulevard that was supplied by the Red Cross Bi-State Chapter. In that first year, St. Louis Area Food Bank distributed 135,000 pounds of food. In 2011, they distributed more than 25 million pounds ...

The Humane Society of Missouri was yet another recipient of our Jeans BeCause program.  Since 1870, the Humane Society of Missouri has been dedicated to second chances. They provide a safe and caring haven to all animals in need – large and small – that have been abused, neglected or abandoned. Their mission is to end the cycle of ...

Another Jeans BeCause recipient!  Applied Scholastics is an international educational organization providing Study Technology, a precise set of learning tools developed by American author and educator L. Ron Hubbard. Established by a group of American educators in 1972 as a nonprofit, tax-exempt public benefit corporation, its purpose is to promote and develop programs of effective education for educators, business trainers, tutors, parents, children—anyone who needs improved study skills to ...