River Roads Lutheran School
River Roads Lutheran School provides Christ-centered education to kids in that community. Pathfinder volunteers will be repairing and painting the classrooms, hallways, restrooms, and offices to give the school a fresh new look for the upcoming school year. This project will not only help preserve the school building, but it will also have a positive effect on the students and families who enter the school!
Feed My Starving Children
Feed My Starving Children is a Christian nonprofit organization that provides funds for volunteers to pack meals for starving children and adults. Their goal is to engage with other organizations to end hunger. Pathfinder volunteers will host a car wash to raise money to provide meals for starving children with a goal in mind of ending hunger for all!
One Heart Family Ministries
One Heart Family Ministries is a foster care support organization that helps Christian families impacted by foster care and adoption. Pathfinder volunteers will help the family update a bedroom, which includes removing furniture, painting the room and bathroom, and assemble new beds. This will ensure that the family has met the needs for the twin girls to be able to thrive in their new bedroom! For a second project, Pathfinder volunteers will help family deep clean the house, organize and pack the basement, as well as help the 11-year-old organize and pack her room. This will ensure that the family is ready to move later in the summer!
Lutheran Senior Services at Breeze Park
Lutheran Senior Services at Breeze Park is a senior living facility, and their mission is to help older adults live their life to the fullest. Residents enjoy interacting with the volunteers and are enriched by the experience. Pathfinder volunteers will assist with beautification of the facility such as cleaning patios, maintaining new gardens, and doing activities with residents. This will ensure the preservation of the senior living facility as well as enhancing the experience of the residents at Breeze Park!
Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Our Lady of Perpetual Help is a food pantry that helps feed the surrounding neighbors. Pathfinder volunteers will be helping improve the prep room for volunteers to work. This includes cleaning and painting walls, replacing ceiling tiles and making the area safe for volunteers to work. This will provide a better environment to support their clients!
Bryan Hill Elementary:
Bryan Hill Elementary is a community-based school inspired to develop passionate lifelong learners. Pathfinder Volunteers will assist with maintaining the new outdoor learning space. This ensures that the school will be ready for the upcoming school year and will have everything the students need for success.
Operation Food Search
The mission of Operation Food Search is to nourish and educate our neighbors in need to heal the hurt of hunger.
St. Louis ArtWorks
St. Louis ArtWorks is a nonprofit youth art apprenticeship program that hires youth ages 14-19 to create art, receive essential job training, and learn necessary life skills. Pathfinder volunteers will help with organizing an art studio, painting rooms, and gardening. This ensures that there is a clean, organized, and functional studio space where youth can come and be creative!
Southside Senior Citizens/Wellness Center
The Senior Center has dozens of raised vegetable gardens which provide organic produce for the center’s meal program. They also maintain a park-like garden with assorted ornamental and Missouri native plants. By helping in this way, we will encourage growth of native plants, which help support pollinators, and help contribute to the beautification of the area!
Fresh Start Community Garden
Fresh Start offers free, fresh and organic vegetables to their community. They use the gardens as a gathering place for their community, where members can care for the gardens and harvest produce. Our efforts will help to inspired more of their neighbors to join in on the backyard gardening!
Valley Park Foster Closet
The Valley Park Foster Closet provides children affected by the foster care system with free resources. Pathfinder volunteers will be sorting through incoming donations (including clothing and baby items) and organizing/cleaning the storage room. This will ensure that foster families and birth families have a clean and welcoming space to shop for the essentials the foster closet offers!
Cornerstone Center for Early Learning
Cornerstone Center for Early Learning provides quality, comprehensive, and affordable childcare and preschool education for all economic backgrounds! By helping with the landscaping on their campus, Cornerstone will be able to offer a place of welcome, quality care, and award-winning early childhood education for at-risk children and their families!