This chapter is currently seeking a local coordinator. If you are interested in applying, please click here for more information.
We're excited to be launching the 2021 holiday season gift drive! Please check this page again soon for more information.
Here's how you can support us in the mean time:
100% of your donation will go toward purchasing gift cards and essentials for local women impacted by homelessness.
Dates: November 1- December 17, 2021
This holiday season, fill a standard-sized, decorated Shoebox with approximately $50 worth of gifts and essentials that any woman might enjoy, and include a warm greeting or message of support. Take your finished Shoebox gift to one of the drop-off locations below, and our volunteers will distribute these gifts to local women’s shelters and community agencies serving women impacted by homelessness across the United States.
Click here to learn how to create a Shoebox
Please click on the address to view operation hours.
Sunnen Station Apartments
Address: 31 Sunnen Dr, Maplewood, MO 63143, United States
The Diamond Bar
Address: 13360 Clayton Rd Suite #103, Town and Country, MO 63131, United States
Claire Flowers at Bespoke Apparel
Address: 8500 Maryland Ave Suite 306, Clayton, MO 63124, United States
Kendra Scott (Plaza Frontenac)
Address: 1701 S Lindbergh Blvd SUITE 10, St. Louis, MO 63131, United States
Kendra Scott (CWE)
Address: 32 Maryland Plaza, St. Louis, MO 63108, United States
May 15, 2021
The St. Louis Shoebox Project had a successful Mother's 2021 Day Drive considering we were coming out of a pandemic. We are so grateful for all that donated and because pandemic restrictions had loosened up St. Louis donated 21 beautiful gift-filled shoeboxes to Almost Home and Our Lady's Inn shelters.
We will be working throughout the summer to share the word of The St. Louis Shoebox Project for Women, hope to get volunteers set up and get prepared for a stellar Thanksgiving and Holiday 2021 Drive!
Please reach out if you want to be a part of something bigger, make a difference and make women impacted by homelessness feel special, loved and reminded they are strong women.
Thank you, Saint Louis, together we will make a difference!
Age suitability: 15+
Age suitability: 18+
Age suitability: 15+
Age suitability: 18+
Age suitability: 9 - 99+
As of January 2018, Missouri had an estimated 5,883 experiencing homelessness on any given day, as reported by Continuums of Care to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
The youth poverty rate in St. Louis is 39.8%, which ranks it as 12th worst among all of the nation's major cities
Room At The Inn
Almost Home
Covenant House Missouri
Gateway 180 Homeless Service
Loaves & Fishes For St. Louis Inc.
Our Lady's Inn
Safe Connections
I found The Shoebox Project for Women on social media when I was searching for a way to give more to the community. When I saw St. Louis needed a chapter I thought this was a special and unique way to help our wonderful community. St. Louis has many women impacted by homelessness and the thought of providing these women a gift-filled box of needed and wanted items warms my heart. The thought of women reading messages of love, support and hope is why I am thrilled to help St. Louis embrace The Shoebox Project!
When I read about the mission of the Shoebox Project I was drawn to volunteer. In St. Louis we are helping women impacted by homelessness as well as women escaping abuse. We hope these gift-filled and decorated shoeboxes bring some amount of joy and encouragement to the women who open them. It is such a fun and unique way to help empower women in St. Louis and I am so happy to be involved!
