Standing With Our Communities

As a company and as individuals, we believe it is important to support organizations in our communities that make our world a better place to live. On an annual basis, we select Community Partners. These organizations receive support through in-kind professional services and/or volunteer hours. For 2009, we have selected the following organizations as Standing Partnership Community Partners:

Recipients of In-Kind Professional Services

United Way of Greater St. Louis
For more than 80 years, United Way has brought people together to care for one another. United Way raises funds, mobilizes volunteers, strengthens agencies, and identifies critical and unmet needs in the community.

In partnership with local communities, United Way is investing more into the community and helping more people.

National Center for Parents as Teachers - 25th Anniversary
For 25 years, Parents as Teachers has helped parents embrace their important role as their child's first and best teacher. What began in Missouri is now an international network of 3,000 local programs that provide families with essential parenting resources and tools through home visits, developmental and health screenings, and connections to community resources. These programs also catch developmental delays early, prepare children for school, and guard against child abuse and neglect. Looking to the next 25 years, the National Center for Parents as Teachers needs support to build the families of today and the workforce of tomorrow.

Center for Nonprofit Excellence (Charlottesville, Va.)
The Center for Nonprofit Excellence (CNE) is a local resource center designed to bring local, regional, and national resources to a single place. By making these resources more readily available, area nonprofits will save time and money and be able to focus on maximizing their potential.

Recipients of Volunteer Hours

St. Louis Area Foodbank
The St. Louis Area Foodbank is now the Bi-State region's largest nonprofit 501 (c) 3 food distribution center dedicated to feeding those in need. Its mission is to feed hungry people by distributing food through partner agencies, and to educate the public about the problems of hunger. Each year, the St. Louis Area Foodbank gathers and distributes millions of pounds of food and personal care items thanks to the generous support of hundreds of food manufacturers, retailers, corporate and community food drives, and financial support received from foundations, corporations, businesses and individuals.     

KidSmart-Tools for Learning
There are more than 80,000 students in St. Louis who cannot afford basic school supplies like pencils, paper and crayons. KidSmart-Tools for Learning helps these children succeed in school by providing free school supplies through KidSmart's Free Store. Donations from individuals and businesses help keep the shelves of KidSmart's Free Store stocked with everything from crayons, markers and glue to business surplus items such as binders, envelopes and promotional items.

Our Little Haven
Childhood should be a haven where young ones are safe and secure - where they are busily forming the foundations for their futures. Sometimes it's not quite so simple, and that's where Our Little Haven can help. Our Little Haven's child and family outpatient services or children's residential treatment can turn tears to smiles and give children back their childhood. Our Little Haven provides residential treatment, psychological and counseling services, Our Little Academy (therapeutic preschool) and foster care case management. Our Little Haven has provided care for children since 1993.

Edgewood Children's Center
This year, Edgewood Children's Center celebrates 175 years of history and service to the St. Louis community. Edgewood began as an orphanage in 1834, and has evolved over the years, responding to changes in society and to the needs of children and families. Edgewood provides specialized therapeutic, educational, and community-based services to more than 300 children and families daily throughout the St. Louis metropolitan area.

If you would like us to consider your organization as a Community Partner, please contact us at 314-469-3500 or csdunkin@standingpr.com.