Whats Up Magazine

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

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.