IDEA Resources

The AFP St. Louis IDEA Committee brings you this living document as a place to channel and direct your energy to improve our region. You are visiting this page because you a) are angry b) are tired of the status quo c) are ready to act to realize equity, fight racism, discrimination, and make our community a better place for everyone. After all, this is why you are in philanthropy in the first place, right? 

You’ve come to the right place. 

Read books and articles and add some to our list. Add suggestions through the form below. Connect with organizations doing social justice work. Give your time, talent and treasure to ensure they can sustain this important work. 

Whatever you do, start now. That is why you are here.

Click here to submit a resource to be added to this list.

books, reading lists, and articles to enlighten

• Decolonizing Wealth, by Edgar Vilanueva
• Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality, by Melvin L. Oliver & Thomas M. Shaprio
• Color Matters: Skin tone Bias and the Myth of a Post Racial America, by Kimberly Norwood
• Mapping Decline, by Colin Gordon
• Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It, by Lisa Bloom
• The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander
• White Like Me, by Tim Wise
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson
• Activist of Color find it difficult to fit into the Environmental Movement
• Candid: Fundraising for Racial Equity

 

Resources

• Community-Centric Fundraising
• The Ethical Rainmaker
• Nonprofit AF

 

Social Justice Organizations

Diversity & Inclusion Organizations | Anti-Racism | Community | Democracy, Voting Rights, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, & Legal Aid | Culturally & Linguistically Diverse | Religious & Interfaith | Women | Disability | LGBTQ+ | Environmental Justice | Children & Education | Vendors | Other Lists | Back to Top

 

Diversity & Inclusion Organizations

• Anti-Defamation League
• Cultural Leadership
• Diversity, Inc.
• Diversity Awareness Partnership
• Diversity Resources Partnership
• FOCUS St. Louis/Bridges Across Racial Polarization
• Innovations
• National Multicultural Institute
• NCCJ
• North County Churches Uniting for Racial Harmony & Justice/NCCU
• Office of Multi-Cultural Programs at Maryville University
• YWCA Metro St. Louis
• Women’s Group on Race Relations
• Vision Point

 

 

Diversity & Inclusion Organizations | Anti-Racism | Community | Democracy, Voting Rights, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, & Legal Aid | Culturally & Linguistically Diverse | Religious & Interfaith | Women | Disability | LGBTQ+ | Environmental Justice | Children & Education | Vendors | Other Lists | Back to Top

 

 

Anti-Racism

• Anti Racist Collective
• Forward Through Ferguson
• Hispanic Chamber of Commerce St. Louis 
• Hands Up United 
• Organization for Black Struggle 
• Witnessing Whiteness 
• St. Louis City NAACP

 

 

Diversity & Inclusion Organizations | Anti-Racism | Community | Democracy, Voting Rights, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, & Legal Aid | Culturally & Linguistically Diverse | Religious & Interfaith | Women | Disability | LGBTQ+ | Environmental Justice | Children & Education | Vendors | Other Lists | Back to Top

 

Community

• A Red Circle  
• The Fit and Food Connection
• STL Mutual Aid

 

 

Diversity & Inclusion Organizations | Anti-Racism | Community | Democracy, Voting Rights, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, & Legal Aid | Culturally & Linguistically Diverse | Religious & Interfaith | Women | Disability | LGBTQ+ | Environmental Justice | Children & Education | Vendors | Other Lists | Back to Top

 

Democracy, Voting Rights, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, & Legal Aid

• ACLU of Missouri   
• Arch City Defenders 
• Legal Services of Eastern Missouri
• Civil Rights Enforcement Agency of St. Louis 
• Shared Roots Donor Alliance

 

 

Diversity & Inclusion Organizations | Anti-Racism | Community | Democracy, Voting Rights, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, & Legal Aid | Culturally & Linguistically Diverse | Religious & Interfaith | Women | Disability | LGBTQ+ | Environmental Justice | Children & Education | Vendors | Other Lists | Back to Top

 

Culturally & Linguistically diverse

• Immigrant & Refugee Women’s Program   
• International Institute of St. Louis 
• Latinos en Axion St. Louis 
• St. Francis Community Services (bi-lingual legal and social services) 
• The Mosaic Project 
• STLJuntos

 

 

Diversity & Inclusion Organizations | Anti-Racism | Community | Democracy, Voting Rights, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, & Legal Aid | Culturally & Linguistically Diverse | Religious & Interfaith | Women | Disability | LGBTQ+ | Environmental Justice | Children & Education | Vendors | Other Lists | Back to Top

 

Religious & Interfaith

• Interfaith Partnership of Greater St. Louis 

 

 

Diversity & Inclusion Organizations | Anti-Racism | Community | Democracy, Voting Rights, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, & Legal Aid | Culturally & Linguistically Diverse | Religious & Interfaith | Women | Disability | LGBTQ+ | Environmental Justice | Children & Education | Vendors | Other Lists | Back to Top

 

Women

• YWCA of Metro St. Louis
• Safe Connections 
• Defendhers 
• Girls in the Know  
• Women’s Foundation of Greater St. Louis  
• Center for Women in Transition
• National Council for Jewish Women in St. Louis 

 

 

Diversity & Inclusion Organizations | Anti-Racism | Community | Democracy, Voting Rights, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, & Legal Aid | Culturally & Linguistically Diverse | Religious & Interfaith | Women | Disability | LGBTQ+ | Environmental Justice | Children & Education | Vendors | Other Lists | Back to Top

 

Disability

• Starkloff Disability Institute 
• Paraquad 
• St. Louis ARC 
• Deaf, Inc.
• St. Louis Society for the Blind 
• Down Syndrome Association of St. Louis
• Employment Connection
• Artists First STL 

 

 

Diversity & Inclusion Organizations | Anti-Racism | Community | Democracy, Voting Rights, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, & Legal Aid | Culturally & Linguistically Diverse | Religious & Interfaith | Women | Disability | LGBTQ+ | Environmental Justice | Children & Education | Vendors | Other Lists | Back to Top

 

LGBTQ+

• STL Metro Trans 
• PFLAG 
• Pride STL 
• PROMO 
• St Louis Gender Foundation 
• HRC MO  

 

 

Diversity & Inclusion Organizations | Anti-Racism | Community | Democracy, Voting Rights, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, & Legal Aid | Culturally & Linguistically Diverse | Religious & Interfaith | Women | Disability | LGBTQ+ | Environmental Justice | Children & Education | Vendors | Other Lists | Back to Top

 

 

Environmental Justice

• Great Rivers Environmental Law
• Missouri Coalition for the Environment 
• Sierra Club

 

 

Diversity & Inclusion Organizations | Anti-Racism | Community | Democracy, Voting Rights, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, & Legal Aid | Culturally & Linguistically Diverse | Religious & Interfaith | Women | Disability | LGBTQ+ | Environmental Justice | Children & Education | Vendors | Other Lists | Back to Top

 

 

Children & Education

• Children's Advocacy Center
• Caring for Kids St. Louis

 

 

Diversity & Inclusion Organizations | Anti-Racism | Community | Democracy, Voting Rights, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, & Legal Aid | Culturally & Linguistically Diverse | Religious & Interfaith | Women | Disability | LGBTQ+ | Environmental Justice | Children & Education | Vendors | Other Lists | Back to Top

 

Vendors

• Divine Events
• Gladiator Consulting

 

 

Diversity & Inclusion Organizations | Anti-Racism | Community | Democracy, Voting Rights, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, & Legal Aid | Culturally & Linguistically Diverse | Religious & Interfaith | Women | Disability | LGBTQ+ | Environmental Justice | Children & Education | Vendors | Other Lists | Back to Top

 

Other lists

• Manchester UMC 
• Start Here STL

 

 

Diversity & Inclusion Organizations | Anti-Racism | Community | Democracy, Voting Rights, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, & Legal Aid | Culturally & Linguistically Diverse | Religious & Interfaith | Women | Disability | LGBTQ+ | Environmental Justice | Children & Education | Vendors | Other Lists | Back to Top