Turning Good into Greater Good
Join us for this volunteer opportunity as we spruce up the office of Avenues Counseling, one of our 2024-2025 grantees. This vital agency provides mental health counseling services to targeted and underserved areas in St. Louis regardless of a person’s ability to pay. We’ll paint therapy rooms for a fresh update, stain stairs and a landing, and do some light landscaping.
Wear clothes suitable for this work and for working outside. Parking is available but may be limited in the rear of the building. Street parking is also available on the side streets nearby (Hiawatha and Arlington.) Guests welcome.
Questions: Contact Marianne Baer, Board Member, Volunteer Outreach:
marebaer20@gmail.com or 314-614-1974
Please join us for cocktails and mingling as we celebrate summer! These casual gatherings are great for socializing with new and old friends and learning more about SOS and our support of St. Louis non-profits! Bring a beverage or an appetizer if you’d like. And if you know someone who has an interest in SOS, please invite them, too.
Questions? Please reach out to the event host.
Host: SOS Member Emily Rapp, emilybrapp@gmail.com, (314) 640-8320
Directions: 228 Gay Avenue, Clayton, 63105
Street parking or park on the lot up the block by the Clayton High school football field.
Table Talks are a great way for SOS members to meet in a more informal atmosphere and get to know other SOS members! Join us at Kaldi’s Coffee in downtown Kirkwood, which has been a fixture on the coffee scene for 20 years. We’ll have coffee and conversation, and afterwards, a trip to the Farmer’s Market is the perfect complement to the caffeine. These member-only events are limited to 7 people in order to create a unique, small group environment. Each member pays for their own check.
Host: SOS Member Nancy Garvey, ngarvey57@gmail.com.
Directions: Kaldi’s Coffee, 120 S. Kirkwood Rd, 63122
Laughing Bear Bakery, another of our 2024-25 grantees, is a not-for-profit bakery that only hires ex-offenders and teaches them work skills while paying them a respectable salary. This reintegration program combats the biggest issue with men and women coming out of prison - the inability to find work which may cause them to reoffend and end up back in prison. At this volunteer event, we’ll be handing out samples during the bakery’s neighborhood outreach/fundraising event featuring music by local folk musician Jim Ford and poetry readings by Patti Pruitt, whose sentence for murder in 1984 was commuted in December 2024 by former Governor Mike Parsons. Funds raised will support adding a “farm style” door for walk-up customers and general operating funds. The SOS grant supports operations as well. Guests welcome.
Questions: Contact Marianne Baer, Board Member, Volunteer Outreach: marebaer20@gmail.com or 314-614-1974
Directions: Laughing Bear Bakery, 4001 Utah St., 63116
Contact Us: soswomensfund.help@gmail.com
