Community Organizing

The citizen-led Community Mobility Committee wants the city to slow down on its plans to repave $84 million of streets until it can add elements to make them safer for pedestrians and cyclists.

Despite sharing many individual goals, local environmental groups largely confined their advocacy to their home state.

The U.S. Census Bureau is set to wrap up its nationwide headcount on Wednesday, after action by the Trump administration pushed up the deadline by a month. That decision is the subject of a federal lawsuit in California, which could extend the census deadline back to its planned end date of Oct. 31. The uncertainty in when the count will end has complicated outreach efforts from Metro East community organizations seeking to increase local participation.

Metro East organizations working to get their communities counted by the 2020 census are watching a California lawsuit that may push the national headcount back to its original end date in October.

BELLEVILLE — The U.S. Census Bureau will extend the deadline for when people can respond to the census by three months. The revised schedule was pushed…

On Wednesday’s St. Louis on the Air, host Don Marsh explored how community organizing has evolved in the St. Louis region over the past 40 years.Joining…

This weekend, St. Louis will play host to a local People’s Climate March. The event is spearheaded by a new local grassroots group called 350 STL, which…

“How do you define development?” questioned Richard Baron, the Chairman and CEO of St. Louis-based for-profit community developer McCormack Baron Salazar,…

Community organizing pays off.That’s the message in a report released Tuesday by Gamaliel, a national faith-based network with affiliates in 16 states,…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, July 21, 2009 - Missouri is once again in the eye of a political storm, as Democratic activists…