COMMUNITY & CULTURE
20 PEOPLE TO KNOW
MICHAEL P.
MCMILLAN
President and
Chief Executive Officer
Urban League of
Metropolitan St. Louis
Michael P McMillan takes great pride in creating programs
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that offer positive role models and mentors as the president
and CEO of the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, a
nonprofit organization that has provided social services to
the St. Louis community since 1918.
Michael created endowed scholarships at four institutions
of higher education with accompanying internships for
high-achieving disadvantaged students. In response to the
crisis in Ferguson, he formed the Save Our Sons program
in St. Louis County to help 500 African-American
men find jobs, among many other programs. Save Our
Sons will move to the new Urban League Community
Empowerment Center of Ferguson when construction is
completed in 2016.
He was selected as one of eight leaders in America for
an Eisenhower International Fellowship, and will travel to
Ireland and France to study their forms of government. He
is the recipient of over 150 awards. Michael co-founded
St. Louis Community Empowerment Foundation with the
Danforth Foundation 17 years ago as an effort to assist
low-income communities.
Michael is a graduate of Saint Louis University with a
bachelor’s degree in African-American studies, and a
minor in political science, with an emphasis in finance.
Michael enjoys travelling, restaurants, Egyptian-era décor,
movies and African-American history.
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