YOU can support ENDING homelessness RIGHT now.

Over the past ten years, Whats Up Magzine has grown to support more than 750 vendors, helping more homeless and low-income vendors in St. Louis earn an income and work toward becoming financially self-sufficient. 



But in order for Whats Up Magazine to be able to continue to provide the trainings that help our vendors overcome poverty, we need your support.



This holiday season we need to raise $5,000 to help keep our vendor program going. So far, thanks to our supporters, we’ve raised $3,220. Which means we need to raise just $1,780 more. With your help we can reach our goal. 

Your donation will help pay for:

  * Vendor training

  * Gear (Whats Up bags, badges, T-shirts)

  * Printing the magazine 

Please make a donation of $50, $100 or even $500 dollars this holiday season and help Whats Up Magazine continue to give the city’s homeless an opportunity to earn an income. 

Sincerely, 

Jay Swoboda

Founder/Executive Director

Whats Up Magazine & The Homeless Empowerment Project 

314-241-7744 or editor@whatsupstl.com

P.S. We’ll automatically send tax receipts, and if you’d like to discuss donation of cars, stocks, boats, etc. – please give us a call or email: editor@whatsupstl.com

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Hand Up For Hope Benefit Concert this Saturday (9/3) at Off Broadway

See you on Saturday @ Off Broadway

A Benefit Concert presented by the Loud Label featuring:

Rev. Matt
Vintage Years
Trotting Bear

Join Whats Up Magazine & The Homeless Empowerment Project as we raise much needed awareness and funds for the cause of educating our region about homelessness and poverty while giving homeless and poor folks an opportunity to earn dignified income. Just $10 at the door or show us your stamp from the film shown earlier and donate just $7 more.

We encourage you to get tickets to the the screening of Bill Streeter’s newest documentary, “Brick By Chance AND Fortune: A St. Louis Story” that shows at 7 PM the same night. (Get tickets online at www.offbroadwaystl.com for $8).

Learn more about our efforts at www.whatsupstl.com or follow us on Twitter @WhatsUpSTL! Hope to see you there!

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About Whats Up Magazine & The Homeless Empowerment Project

We are a small grassroots non-profit 501 (c) 3 that has been in St. Louis for almost ten years working to change the face of homelessness. The organization, combining the talents of writers, artists, activists, musicians, and community iconoclasts, believes in the virtues of change and progress through dialogue and committed action.

By focusing on issues critical to the realities of homelessness, housing, healthcare, politics, and culture Whats Up works to provide a voice for those who remain marginalized, neglected, and forgotten by the mainstream discussions of power and privilege. The magazine, published quarterly, focuses on these issues and provides transitional employment to the homeless through a vending program that emphasizes the possibilities for St. Louis to provide a “hand-up” and not a “handout” to the impoverished.

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