League is consistently ranked the No. 1 affiliate of
the National Urban League. 2018 marks the Urban
League’s 100th year of service to the greater St.
Louis community.
“Supporting the Urban League aligns with our
values and our commitment to community
partnership,” said Warner Baxter, chairman,
president and CEO, Ameren Corporation. “Success-
ful companies and communities actively embrace
diversity and inclusion. Ameren will continue
to support these types of initiatives, as well as
other programs and organizations, because we
are committed to doing what is right for our
employees, our customers and the communities
we serve.”
Each year the Ameren Cares program, serving
both the Ameren Illinois and Ameren Missouri
service areas, donates millions of dollars from the
Ameren Corporation Charitable Trust to support
a variety of cultural, civic, community, environ-
mental, health, youth and educational programs.
To fund its contributions, the Ameren Corporate
Charitable Trust draws entirely from corporate
earnings, not from charges to customers. In 2017
Ameren Corporation donated more than $8 million
through its charitable trust.
About Ameren Corporation
St. Louis-based Ameren Corporation powers the
quality of life for 2.4 million electric customers
and more than 900,000 natural gas customers
in a 64,000-square-mile area through its Ameren
Missouri and Ameren Illinois rate-regulated utility
subsidiaries. Ameren Illinois provides electric
distribution and transmission service, as well as
natural gas distribution service, while Ameren
Missouri provides vertically integrated electric
service, with generating capacity of nearly 10,300
megawatts, and natural gas distribution service.
Ameren Transmission Company of Illinois devel-
ops regional electric transmission projects. For
more information, visit Ameren.com, or follow us
on Twitter at @AmerenCorp, Facebook.com/Amer-
enCorp, or LinkedIn.com/company/Ameren.
About the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis
The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis exists to
empower African Americans and others throughout
the region in securing economic self-reliance, social
equality, and civil rights. The Urban League of Metro-
politan St. Louis, Inc. takes a holistic approach to eco-
nomic empowerment and self-sufficiency. Through
community programs in three counties across the
bi-state region, it helps its clients to climb out of
poverty by helping them to find economic opportuni-
ty, providing educational excellence and community
empowerment and encouraging civil rights and
advocacy. The League’s Community Empowerment
Initiative provides clients in need with food, cloth-
ing and other life necessities while strengthening
families and helping people become self-sufficient.
The Education Excellence Initiative encourages and
enables participants to apply learning to everyday
situations, to embrace technology and to achieve aca-
demic excellence. The Economic Opportunity Initiative
provides resources to strengthen individuals, fami-
lies, and communities by improving and climbing the
economic “ladder” to a better quality of life. For more
information, visit ulstl.com.