Organization
A Seat at the Table (ASATT) helps at-risk and under-resourced 18- to 25-year-olds better transition into adulthood by providing residential mentoring and community support in a Christian family environment. ASATT seeks to bring healing into the lives of participants via loving, healthy connections with caring invested adults, stepping in at a life stage when many youth-oriented supports fall away.
After providing similar services informally for many years, Bob and Chrissy Stergos founded A Seat at the Table as a nonprofit in 2018, and now live with and support four young men at the first ASATT home in a duplex in South City Shaw neighborhood. The second ASATT home, purchased in 2021, will house four young women and a host family in the Ferguson area.
Partnership #1 (2021)
As the organization enters its 4th year of nonprofit operations and seeks to expand its model into additional homes and establish a donor base to cover its ongoing programmatic costs, in addition to the catalytic gifts that enabled ASATT to purchase its first and second homes. The Brown Sisters Foundation issued a challenge grant to attract new and increased donors to support ASATT’s growth, and to support the costs of physical and mental healthcare costs for the young people being served by ASATT.
Partnership #2 (2023)
The Brown Sisters Foundation provided a challenge grant to build capacity within the organization and its staff members by hiring a part-time Program Manager/Caseworker who would conduct assessments with residents, develop individual action plans, and better track the accomplishments of their participants according to their established self-sufficiency matrix, with the intent of developing a model that can be used to replicate their immersive program in St. Louis as well as in other communities. The grant was designed to help A Seat at the Table engage their donor base and increase the amount of recurring monthly donors.