Educate.Today Stories (1-8 minutes) employ a narrative form to highlight a topic, location, or practitioner in the area of study.

Business Skills Samples

Anew Nature
Anew Nature is a furniture restoration and custom design company that provides leadership and training to men who have served prison time for felony offenses. Owners Robert and Erica Calescent are on a mission to give a second chance to marginalized men in the St. Louis area.  Anew Nature serves dozens of interns every year, equipping them with workplace culture skills, tool literacy, professional communications, and training in carpentry, woodworking, welding, painting and masonry.

The Business of a Food Pantry
Food pantries provide a vitally important service to their community, but how do such organizations make sure that the food pantry operates as a successful business so it can do that good work for a long period of time?  Meet the people behind Circle of Concern, a food pantry in St. Louis, Missouri, and learn about best practices they use to ensure that they can serve the people of their community.

Sociology Samples

Vacancy Collaborative Working to Solve Vacancy Problem in St. Louis City
The St. Louis Vacancy Initiative, a working collaborative of St. Louis residents, civic leaders, non-profit organizations and business leaders, was developed to address the chronic vacancy issue plaguing the city of St. Louis.  Learn how and what they are doing.

Making a Difference–Community Library Boxes
The St. Louis Promise Zone has partnered with St. Louis County Library to provide 50 community library boxes all around the Promise Zone in north St. Louis County. Their aim is to increase literacy and readership and strengthen education outcomes in high poverty communities. The stencil design for the boxes was created by local African-American artist, Cbabi Bayoc, in hope of empowering and inspiring children the community. In partnership with the residents of the Promise Zone, the program allows volunteers to paint the boxes themselves.