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62nd Annual Campaign Benefits Children’s Charities
Hundreds take to the streets today. All donations collected benefit local charities which serve at-risk children.
Old Newsboys Business Leaders
The 2018 Old Newsboys Day campaign continues a long tradition of business and community leaders’ commitment to support the organization and its efforts to reach out to St. Louis area children.
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University City Children’s Center serves more than 200 young children per year who live in 30-plus zip codes.
UNIVERSITY CITY CHILDREN’S CENTER
ST. JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF
CARE TO LEARN
Early trust teaches growth skills
Don’t miss a second of sound
Fulfill day-to-day needs for health
KATELYN MEYER
SOPHIA JACOBSON Senior Francis Howell High School
Senior Lindbergh High School
Old Newsboys Day Special Correspondents High school students throughout the community contribute their writing skills to tell the story of children’s charities in this 2018 special edition. Unless otherwise noted, photos are contributed by the nonprofit agencies.
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JILLIAN CAPPELLO Junior Nerinx Hall High School
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ounded in the early 1970s, University City Children’s Center (UCCC) combined nine churches and synagogues to create a goal of helping change children’s perspective on society. UCCC allows children to explore diversity in their community and know about different socioeconomic, ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Its main
fter six Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet arrived 183 years ago in America to teach language to children in a log cabin along the banks of the Mississippi, trained professionals have kept their values alive and committed to educating children who are deaf. St. Joseph Institute for the Deaf (SJI) works with children from birth to
are to Learn, a nonprofit organization established by Doug Pitt, assists students with health, hunger and hygiene needs. Pitt heard some sad facts about poverty in Springfield, Mo., and wanted to make a change there. Now, the organization works with 34 school districts across Missouri and continues to expand beyond the 28
Emerson: Rooted in values and the St. Louis community Emerson, one of the world’s leading global engineering and technology companies, has called St. Louis home for 128 years. A company with roots that run deep in this region, Emerson and its employees have long played an active role in supporting civic initiatives, educational institutions and charitable organizations working to improve the St. Louis region. Through its state-of-the-art technologies and breakthrough innovations, Emerson is focused on developing leading solutions for customers in the industrial, commercial and residential markets. With 81,500 employees and 200 manufacturing locations worldwide, Emerson is making a positive impact that
culture and the arts, ripplesacrossindustries and civic needs. and geographic borders. Last year, Emerson Emerson’s impact and the Emerson is supported by its Charitable Trust made foundational values – contributions of nearly Integrity, Safety and $27 million to charities, Quality, Continuous nonprofit organizations Improvement, and individual Collaboration, scholarships across the Innovation, Customer United States. Focus and Support Our In the St. Louis People – that are critical area, Emerson to the company’s provided financial success. One of the SUBMITTED PHOTO. support to a wide guiding behaviors of “Support Our People” Emerson CEO David Farr welcomes children of employees participating range of organizations, including the Boys & is a commitment to in“We Love STEM”day at the Ferguson campus. Girls Club of Greater St. making a positive impact on the communities anthropic support to the local Louis, Central Institute for the where Emerson employees live communities where it operates Deaf, Ranken Technical College, and work. in four primary areas: education, Arts & Education Council of Emerson provides phil- health and human services, Greater St. Louis, American Red
Cross Eastern Missouri Region, Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, and the Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri, to name only a few. In addition, Emerson employees volunteer their time and talent in service to many of these and other organizations in the area. Emerson is proud to support the Old Newsboys Day special edition and its mission to raise funds to help ensure at-risk children in the St. Louis community have adequate food, shelter, clothing and medical care, and are provided equal opportunity for social development. For more information about Emerson’s corporate giving, visit www. Emerson.com/CSR.