Impact Area

This collaborative effort between the Brown School’s Buder Center with leaders at the St. Louis Zoo, St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri Humanities Council, Missouri History Museum and Lutheran Indian Ministries, is meant to advance Native partnerships and programming. Strengthening collaboration and communication will allow better dissemination of knowledge, stronger programs, and improved outreach.

Social Workers Advancing through Grounded Education (SAGE) program recruits, trains and financially supports Brown School Master of Social Work and Master of Public Health students who are interested in completing 360 hours of their practica in Indian Country. Brown School students who are interested in serving Indian Country complete a foundation practicum or field placement within St. Louis. The placement can be on a reservation, or with tribal, social, educational, or governmental agencies.

The Brown School Evaluation Center works with organizations to create change through evaluation. Through training, planning, data, and communication, the Evaluation Center has been helpful in working with numerous organizations and their capacity and resources to elevate the organizations.

The Center for Human Service Leadership (HSL) supports the nonprofit tenants at Delmar DivINe, a new complex in North St. Louis city dedicated to community development, social improvement and collaboration in the St. Louis area. Directed by Professor Barry Rosenberg, this initiative uses racial equity lens to contribute to the long-term development of social service organizations, assisting in organizational governance, data-driven strategic thinking, innovation, talent development and collaboration.

HomeGrown STL aids in the development of young, Black males in the St. Louis community. Bringing together key partners, Professor Sean Joe from the Brown School leads this program to provide infrastructure to better inform services and policies with the overall goal of improving outcomes for young Black boys and men.

The Clark-Fox Policy Institute works to advance social and economic justice. The goal is to connect policy solutions to public awareness, practicum training, and policy decision-making. The institute provides students with the opportunity to participate through a number of different avenues: the Graduate Policy Scholars, internship and practicum, and working through the master of Social Policy.

“The Divided City” works to bring humanities scholars into interdisciplinary dialogue with architects, urban designers, landscape architects, legal scholars, etc. This initiative includes a number of different projects such as the Sumner Studio Lab, a lab that runs through the academic year to bring together Sumner High students, WashU students, and Ville residents.

Niños Cambios Puertas is a volunteer program that provides tutoring and mentoring to Latino children in St. Louis. Niños tutors work with elementary school students with homework and reading and math exercises. Cambios tutors work with middle and high school students. While Puertas tutors function as a college preparation program helping students study for the ACT, find scholarships, and create resumes.

This program from the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement focuses on using the arts as a means for social change. Scholars in the program are immersed in arts-based community engagement in the St. Louis area. Participants are encouraged to foster dialogue, mentorship, and action between themselves and the artistic endeavors in the St. Louis area. Previous fellows have worked at the Contemporary Art Museum, the Griot Museum for Black History, and the Shakespeare Festival in St. Louis.

The Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE^2) provides an opportunity for three high school students in the St. Louis area to win $500 for their essay on why the study of race and ethnicity is important and for the study of race and ethnicity can benefit students.