HELP ME RAISE MONEY TO END POVERTY IN MISSOURI

Welcome to my fundraising page!

Thank you for helping me reach my Give STL Day fundraising goal for Empower Missouri! This is an exciting opportunity for us to work together to end poverty in Missouri and to spread awareness of the importance of affordable housing, food security, and criminal justice reform.

Please consider sponsoring me. With your help, we will be able to make a difference in the lives of thousands of Missourians. I encourage you to get your friends, family, neighbors and coworkers involved too!

Why We Need Your Help

For 120 years, Empower Missouri has been a champion of securing basic human needs and equal justice for every person in our state through coalition-building and advocacy. This nonpartisan nonprofit is the oldest and largest anti-poverty advocacy organization serving our state, and one of the first organizations of its kind in the nation. At its core, Empower Missouri is an anti-poverty organization focused on affordable housing, food security, and community justice.

Instrumental Wins

• Securing funding in the state budget for the Summer EBT program, ensuring that families that qualify for free or reduced-price school meals have access to nutritious food when school is not in session.
• The expansion of Postpartum Medicaid to provide coverage for a full year after giving birth (increased from only 60 days). With over 40 percent of women who give birth in Missouri relying on Medicaid, this is life-saving legislation for thousands of low-income mothers in our state!
• The passage of legislation that authorizes any municipality in the state with more than 1,500 inhabitants to start a land bank, a key government tool for dealing with abandoned and/or blighted properties. This is an important first step towards turning some of these properties into new affordable housing units.
• Removing the crack/cocaine sentencing disparity from Missouri law, an unjust policy with a well-documented history of being used to impose harsher punishment on Black and economically disadvantaged drug users.

With your donation, we can strengthen our base for future policy wins and significantly reduce poverty in Missouri.