Agency Fundholder Spotlight: St. Louis Earth Day

YouthBridge Community Foundation of Greater St. Louis offers endowment building services to help nonprofit agencies generate income for longer-term initiatives. In addition to delivering access to low-cost, high-quality investment solutions and education on endowments, YouthBridge aids with the entire process – from establishing an endowment fund to financial reporting to create the greatest impact. YouthBridge also provides matching funds each year to child-serving nonprofits that start or add to their endowment!

Organizations with endowment funds at YouthBridge are called Agency Fundholders. To shine more light on these meaningful relationships we spotlight one Agency Fundholder each month. This month we feature earthday365, who became an Agency Fundholder in 2014. We chatted with Jessica Watson, Executive Director of earthday365.

Q. What is your mission?
A. Our mission is to inspire and mobilize a collaborative movement towards an equitable and environmentally sustainable St. Louis region – every day.

Q. Do you have any exciting updates about earthday365?
A. Our Green Dining Alliance program, which helped restaurants divert over 13 million pounds from landfills in 2024, just reached 100 member restaurants!  GreenDiningAlliance.org

Q. Is there anything special we should know about?
A. The 2025 St. Louis Earth Day Festival will be in Forest Park April 26 & 27th, with 200 vendors, live music, and much more. Volunteer: https://earthday-365.org/festival/volunteer/

Q. Explain what your relationship with YouthBridge has meant to your agency.
A. Our relationship with YouthBridge has been crucial for our financial stability, especially during economic downturns. In fact, it allowed us to keep our doors open. Now we are very excited to co-create a new ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Fund so that our money reflects our values.