We know that food is core to the human experience, and recent research has shown that nearly 400,000 people in the Greater St. Louis area are food insecure. In 2024, our donors and friends ensured that over 151,000 meals were served from our food pantries in the metro area.
As we celebrate our 160th anniversary, we hope to increase your impact by raising $160,000, which would feed 32,000 more people in 2025. Just $5 provides one meal to a neighbor in need in the face of growing food insecurity.
You can have a transformational impact on our neighbors in need. Donate now and feed our community by visiting salarmy.us/sharegrace.
DONATE NOW
How Can I Help?
HOST A DRIVE
Host a canned food and can opener drive. We encourage donations of one can opener per five cans to ensure access for our neighbors in need.
We recommend collecting items in April and May at your business or church, and we will coordinate with you late May on pickup.
SPONSOR
To drive awareness, we will be placing large-scale visuals throughout the community.
Host one of the displays and enjoy custom branding to demonstrate your organization’s commitment to doing the most good.
DONATE
Your donations go far but not far away. All funds raised will stay in the St. Louis community.
For our friends in the restaurant industry, we ask you to consider donating a portion of proceeds for a single day during National Salvation Army Week.
Would you feed our St. Louis neighbors in need? Contact Andy Bundesen, Associate Executive Director of Development, via email at andrew.bundesen@usc.salvationarmy.org or phone at 314.646.3019.
Donate non-perishable food items and can openers
The Salvation Army is working with local businesses throughout the region to collect non-perishable food items and can openers. Items can be donated at any St. Louis area Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Find a Salvation Army location near you.
During National Salvation Army Week (May 12-18), donations will be accepted at Fresh Thyme Market in the City Foundry (3701 Foundry Way, Suite 201, St. Louis, MO 63110) during normal business hours.
About National Salvation Army Week
National Salvation Army Week was declared by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1954, and since then it has served as an annual reminder of the vast scope of our services and ways you can help. This year, The Salvation Army of Greater St. Louis encourages the community to join us in fighting food insecurity in the region.
Thank You to our Partners and Donors
Corporations and Foundations
- Anonymous
- Fresh Thyme Market at City Foundry
- Great Rivers Greenway
- Hope Vineyard Church
- Lenoir Charitable Trust
- Platinum Realty
- Plocher Construction
- Reitz & Jens
- Schnucks
Executive Committee* and Advisory Board
- Adam Menne*
- Anthony Urban
- Bryan Lundstrom
- Cate Trende*
- Chris Cooper
- Colleen Peters
- Dirk Elsperman*
- James Hoffmeister*
- John Wuest*
- Ken Grapperhaus
- Roy Anderson Jr.*
- Shawn Schukar*