One of the best ways to enhance the enjoyment of life is to pursue passions and interests. Education makes this pursuit possible. Anheuser-Busch values the impact education has on individual lives and the community as a whole through support to organizations, including:
TEACH FOR AMERICA
Teach for America is the national corps of recent college graduates of all academic majors and career interests
who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools and become leaders in the effort to expand educational
opportunity. When Teach for America came to St. Louis in 2002, Anheuser-Busch was there to support expanding educational
opportunities for the region’s children and in 2009, the Anheuser-Busch Foundation donated $150,000 to the Teach
For America Corps-St. Louis. The Teach for America corps members, who were selected from a pool of more than 35,000
applicants from across the country, are teaching in classrooms in the St. Louis Public School District, the Normandy
and Wellston public school districts and charter schools during the 2009-2010 school year.
HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND (HSF)
As the nation’s leading Hispanic scholarship organization, the Hispanic Scholarship Fund’s vision is
to strengthen the country by advancing college education among Hispanic Americans. In support of its mission to double
the rate of Hispanics earning college degrees, HSF provides the Latino community more college scholarships and educational
outreach support than any other organization in the country. During the 2008-2009 academic year, HSF awarded 4,600
scholarships exceeding $28 million. In its 34-year history, HSF has awarded more than 90,000 scholarships worth more
than $280 million to Latinos attending nearly 2,000 colleges and universities in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam and
the U.S. Virgin Islands.
PHL, INC.
PHL, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization formed in February 2005 with a simple goal – repair, replace, purchase, improve and build athletic facilities and equipment for public school districts in the St. Louis metropolitan area. Through contributions from the St. Louis Rams and the Anheuser-Busch Foundation, PHL, Inc. is undertaking the construction of a new outdoor athletic complex for use by Sumner High School’s student-athletes and the entire Ville community in St. Louis. The facility will include a state-of-the-art Sprinturf field, lights, bleachers, restrooms and pavilion to be constructed in local Tandy Park. “This is our eighth project pushing our total improvements to date to more than $2 million at absolutely no costs to the St. Louis Public School District,” said Thom Kuhn of PHL, Inc. “Projects such as this don’t happen without the support of community leaders, the school district and companies like Anheuser-Busch.”