Growing An Economy That Works For All

We believe that by working together, we can harness the strengths in the St. Louis region to build shared prosperity.

The Inclusive Prosperity Partnership (IPP) unites leaders across business, philanthropy, nonprofits, government, and the community to drive economic growth and opportunity in St. Louis. Through coordinated action, pooled investment, and shared data, we align efforts, stretch resources, and achieve impact no single organization could reach alone.

Visit our About page to learn more about the people and partners designing solutions and governing this effort.

Building Pathways to Prosperity in St. Louis

The IPP is harnessing the people, resources, and data necessary to achieve inclusive growth and economic mobility. Over the next ten years, we will co-design scalable solutions to address the barriers to inclusive growth in our region. We have already identified our first three priorities for solution design and investment: quality jobs, early childhood education, and affordable housing.

PRIORITY AREA 1: QUALITY JOBS

The Inclusive Prosperity Partnership’s first area of focus is boosting economic mobility through quality jobs. We are addressing employment for people with low incomes as a key lever for economic mobility, defining a quality job as one that provides a full-time worker with a living wage, comprehensive employee benefits, and opportunities for growth and advancement.

Interventions designed by the IPP’s Solution Design Cohort will prioritize implementing research-backed strategies to increase access to each of these three core components:

Living Wage Jobs
Comprehensive Employee Benefits
Opportunities for Growth and Advancement

PRIORITY AREA 2: EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

As the Inclusive Prosperity Partnership creates a culture of problem solving, the new processes will be applied to additional economic challenges. The next focus area will be early childhood education.

For parents to participate in the workforce St. Louis needs a high-quality, well-funded early childhood system. A structure that supports childcare providers, families, and children should be the norm for every child in the region, and we are committed to building this structure for our community.

PRIORITY AREA 3: AFFORDABLE HOUSING

The Inclusive Prosperity Partnership is committed to creating a foundation for economic mobility. The third focus area in achieving that goal is expanding affordable housing options for the region’s workforce.

Stable, affordable housing options reduce financial strain, support workforce retention, and enable families to build generational wealth.

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