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Planting Partnerships…Powered by Peabody Energy
Planting Partnerships…Powered by Peabody Energy April showers have brought May flowers and now it’s time to plant! The threat of frost has passed and it’s finally time to beautify the public spaces of our city with Brightside St. Louis’ Blitz Blooms. Each year Brightside provides flower seedlings to neighborhood groups who register a Blitz project […]
Mingle with Young Friends of Brightside at the Kickoff Garden Party
Mingle with Young Friends of Brightside at the Kickoff Garden Party St. Louis is more vibrant and younger than ever before. Makes perfect sense for our city’s young professionals to get in on the action and so we’ve founded the Young Friends of Brightside. Join us as we make our city a cleaner, greener, better […]
Thank You for a Successful Give STL Day
Thank You for a Successful Give STL Day The question was “what can we do in a day” and the answer turned out to be $1,108,815.09 raised for 500+ local nonprofits, including $3,215 just for Brightside St. Louis. On May 6th St. Louisans rallied together to support the charities that make our community better, and […]
Support Brightside on Give STL Day
Support Brightside on Give STL Day For over 30 years, Brightside St. Louis has been committed to improving the quality of life for St. Louisans by developing programs that clean and beautify neighborhoods throughout the city. Programs like Blitz clean-ups, Graffiti Eradication, Neighbors Naturescaping, and Project Flower Shower are successful because they are powered by […]
The Brightside of St. Louis Earth Day Festival
The Brightside of St. Louis Earth Day Festival What better way to spend your weekend than strolling through beautify Forest Park and learning about area organizations that share the mission of St. Louis Earth Day? This year, Brightside St. Louis will join the celebration by stocking an informational booth with lots of educational resources and […]
ArborMeisters Homebrew Festival
ArborMeisters Homebrew Festival In celebration of Arbor Day, the Garage Brewers Society has partnered with our friends Forest ReLeaf of Missouri for a beer festival on Saturday, April 26th to showcase home-brewed beers, each one created to include at least one “tree” ingredient. All proceeds will go toward Forest ReLeaf to assist in “planting trees, […]
Mayor Slay Gets Dirty in Brightside’s Butterfly Garden
Mayor Slay Gets Dirty in Brightside’s Butterfly Garden The setting could not have been more perfect for Mayor Francis G. Slay to reveal a new City sustainability initiative, Milkweeds for Monarchs. On Earth Day, with Brightside’s purple coneflowers and giant Monarch gleaming in the background, Mayor Slay, along with representatives from the Missouri Botanical Garden, […]
Brightside Featured on City Corner
Brightside Featured on City Corner Learn more about what Brightside St. Louis is doing to make St. Louis a cleaner, greener and better place to live. Executive Director Mary Lou Green explains on STL TV’s City Corner!