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Washington Magazine: Growing together
October 2024 — The St. Louis Fellows Program at Washington University is not a career development program, though it connects students to summer internships at local nonprofit and civic organizations. It is not a history course, though it dives deep into the political, economic and cultural forces that shape the St. Louis region. Nor is it a financial aid initiative, though fellows receive a large stipend to live and learn in St. Louis.
At its heart, the St. Louis Fellows Program is a commitment to the region.
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2025 Civic Action Week Events Calendar
Date and Time Title Link to Event Page Feb. 17, 2025 at 12 p.m. Civic Action Week: Amplify Your Voice: Best Practices for Effective State-Level Advocacy https://gephardtinstitute.wustl.edu/calendar_event/civic-action-week-amplify-your-voice/ Feb. 17, 2025 at 2 p.m. Civic Action Week: Connecting Campus to Community with the Campus Y https://gephardtinstitute.wustl.edu/calendar_event/civic-action-week-campus-y/ Feb. 17, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. Civic Action Week: Interwoven […]
Please Help Honor Jane Gephardt
Matching Gift Opportunity to Support the St. Louis Fellows Program January 13, 2025 marked the one-year anniversary of the passing of Jane Gephardt, Congressman Dick Gephardt’s wife of 57 years. Jane played a key role in the establishment of the Gephardt Institute. To honor Jane, we have a goal of establishing the Jane Gephardt Memorial Fellow […]
In massive third year increase,Civic Action Week hosts 28 events
The Gephardt Institute hosted its third annual Civic Action Week last week, Feb. 17-23, to highlight civic and community engagement opportunities and topics across campus in events largely proposed and hosted by WashU student groups, schools and departments. The first two years of Civic Action Week saw 12 and 16 events, respectively. But in 2025, […]
Gephardt students extend summer work through St. Louis Impact Fund
The Gephardt Institute awarded $11,100, through the St. Louis Impact Fund, to nine St. Louis Fellows and Civic Scholars to support their goals to make deeper impacts in the community-engaged work they began last summer. These Partnership Extension Grants help students extend their time with the organizations they partnered with during the summer to continue making […]
Philanthropy Lab students champion funding for local farm nonprofit
In 2024, The Philanthropy Lab national organization granted $62,500 to nonprofits in the St. Louis region through their Ambassador Board. These organizations were championed not only by WashU students, but even a student from Stanford University. Offered in partnership with the Gephardt Institute, Philanthropy Lab is a sociology course designed to give students a theoretical […]
Gephardt News/Media Mentions
- 2024 St. Louis Fellows Showcase: How WashU students engaged with the STL community this summer (September 2024)
- Q&A with Chancellor Andrew Martin, fall 2024 (September 2024)
- “Disagree without being disagreeable:” Chancellor Martin hosts panel on free speech, protest, and democracy (September 2024)
- WashU Expert: Colleges work to increase voter turnout (September 2024)
- WashU community invited to civic dialogue event, meal (August 2024)
- Diplomat Richard Haass speaks on the state of democracy in the US (April 2024)
- The View From Here 04.08.24 (April 2024)
- Gephardt Institute voting plan earns high marks (April 2024)
- LaTosha Brown presents on voting rights activism (March 2024)
- Gephardt Institute awards $30,000 in grants to meet local needs (March 2024)
- Wynter selected for prestigious summer program (February 2024)
- Bans that disrupt democracy (February 2024)
- Student artists can apply for Art of Democracy residency (February 2024)
- 2023: The year in photos (January 2023)
- Gephardt Institute accepting applications for civic leadership programs (December 2023)
- Senior Tori Harwell selected as a Rhodes Scholar (November 2023)
- Gordon to discuss history of racial segregation, urban inequality (November 2023)
- St. Louis Fellows Program showcases mutually beneficial civic engagement internship for students and local nonprofits (October 2023)
- The View from Here (October 2023)
- St. Louis Fellows partner with local nonprofits, civic organizations to improve region (October 2023)
- Civic Action Week hosts events that explore critical issues (October 2023)
- The View from Here (October 2023)
- New St. Louis Impact Fund to support student-community projects (October 2023)
- St. Louis Mayor Tishuara Jones speaks at WU about reproductive rights, gun violence, and the housing crisis (September 2023)
- The View from Here (September 2023)
- Gephardt Institute holds “Longest Table” event to foster civic engagement (September 2023)
- Students invited to join ‘The Longest Table’ (September 2023)
- Philanthropy Lab course grants $40,000 to local nonprofits (May 2023)
- Gephardt Institute announces Civic Scholars, St. Louis Fellows (April 2023)
- Ethic of Service: ‘A stake in the ground’ (April 2023)
- Class Acts: Blake Comeaux (May 2023)