Cardinals Care Summer Grant Cycle to Aid More Than 65 Non-profits
Over $148,000 to be donated to area groups during ceremony on Wednesday, September 19th
ST. LOUIS – September 17, 2012 – Cardinals Care will distribute over $148,000 to 66 area non-profit groups that support local kids during a ceremony Wednesday at Busch Stadium. Cardinals’ players, executives and Fredbird will all take part in the afternoon event. Cardinals Care, the team’s charitable foundation that helps children, has invested nearly $18 Million since its inception in 1997, in “Caring for Kids” both on and off the baseball field.
Who: Cardinals Care along with Cardinals’ players, executives, Fredbird and hundreds of children and representatives from many of the organizations who will benefit from the Cardinals Care Grants
What: Cardinals Care Summer Grant Ceremony
Where: Guests & Media are asked to check-in beginning at 2:15 p.m. at Gate Three, located on the third-base side of Busch Stadium.
When: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 at 3:00 p.m.
Over the last 15 years, Cardinals Care has provided nearly $11 million in grants to over 800 non-profit youth organizations and built 19 youth ball fields in local disadvantaged neighborhoods. Cardinals Care also runs the innovative Redbird Rookies program, a free baseball league for kids in Missouri and Illinois who otherwise might not have the opportunity to play. In addition to providing all the uniforms, gloves, bats, balls and other equipment needed for each team, Redbird Rookies also provides extensive off-field support in the areas of health, education, mentoring and the cultural arts for each of the nearly 4,500 kids who participate in the program each year. Fans may now make a tax-deductible donation to Cardinals Care online at cardinals.com/community.
2012 Summer Grant Recipients
| Academy of St. Louis | Megan Meier Foundation |
| ALIVE, Inc. | Mission St. Louis |
| Angels' Arms | Neighborhood Houses |
| Anti-Defamation League | North Side Community School |
| Assistance League of St. Louis | Ozark Family Resource Agency |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid Missouri | Peace for Kids |
| Board of Religious Organizations | Ride On St. Louis, Inc. |
| Boys & Girls Club of Carbondale | Ronald McDonald House Charities of Metro St. Louis |
| Caring for Kids, Inc. | Safe Connections |
| CHARACTERplus | Safe House for Women Inc. |
| Circus Flora | Saint Louis Science Center |
| Clarkson Eyecare Foundation | Saint Louis University AIMS Program |
| COCA-Center of Creative Arts | South City Community School |
| Community Caring Council | Southside Early Childhood Center |
| Cornerstone Center for Early Learning, Inc. | Special Education Foundation |
| Covenant House Missouri | Special Learning Center |
| De La Salle Middle School | Special Olympics Illinois |
| Delta Gamma Center for Children with Visual Impairments | St. Louis City Open Studio and Gallery |
| Diversity Awareness Partnership | St. Louis Classical Guitar Society |
| Down Syndrome Association of Greater St. Louis | St. Louis Irish Arts, Inc. |
| ECH School | St. Louis Learning Disabilities Association, Inc. |
| FOCUS St. Louis | St. Louis Society for the Physically Disabled |
| Friends of Kids with Cancer | St. Vincent DePaul Schools |
| Friends of Tower Grove Park, Inc. | Sts. Joachim and Ann Care Service |
| Giant Steps of St. Louis | The ALS Association, St. Louis Regional Chapter |
| Immanuel Lutheran School (Perryville) | The Haven of Grace |
| JDRF Ozarks | The Little Bit Foundation |
| Junior Golf Foundation of Greater St. Louis | Variety The Children's Charity of St. Louis, Inc. |
| Kenny Rogers Children's Center | Violence Prevention Center of Southwestern Illinois |
| Logos School | Vision for Children at Risk |
| Lutheran Association for Special Education | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Marian Middle School | Women for Health and Wellness, Inc. |
| Masterpeace Studios | Women In Charge |