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St. Louis Character: Geoffrey Soyiantet helps Africans find footing in St. Louis

Geoffrey Soyiantet came to St. Louis with about $50 in his pocket.  A winner of America’s Diversity Visa lottery, which randomly selects 50,000 green card recipients from an annual applicant pool of 23 million annually, Soyiantet picked St. Louis because he knew someone here from his native Kenya. But life wasn’t easy when he arrived in […]

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Building Momentum Speaker Series-Culture and Communication

Building Momentum speaker series is a networking event and speaker series for immigrants and friends of immigrants, hosted by Vitendo4Africa. V4A hopes to build momentum for a better future by providing an opportunity for you to meet new people and hear community and youth immigrant leaders share their successes, failures, and lessons learned. Personal stories

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COVID-19 Regional Response Fund

The St. Louis Community Foundation assembled a coalition of local influential organizations to create the COVID-19 Regional Response Fund, which will direct resources to regional nonprofits that are serving local communities disproportionately affected by the coronavirus crisis and its economic fallout. Modeled after a similar effort undertaken by the Seattle Foundation, this initiative is the fastest,

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