Letter from the Executive Director
Letter From the Executive Director
After a challenging yet successful summer, EnergyCare is now helping vulnerable St. Louisans cope with the colder temperatures. With your support, we are adapting to meet the growing challenges around alleviating energy poverty in St. Louis. We are working with two young groups of university students to explore how our services affect our clients’ health and to document and visualize where we are having an impact. Precautions around Covid are also impacting our clients and our volunteers this fall.
Typically, EnergyCare works with hundreds of volunteers from schools, corporations, and religious groups to seal up drafty windows in the homes of low-income people in neighborhoods all across St. Louis. This year is different. Our clients are wary of having people in their homes and volunteers are too cautious to risk being contained in a stranger’s home for hours at a time. So, we’ve adapted. We now create and drop off weatherization kits on client porches along with electric heaters, electric blankets, and smoke alarms. But none of this would be possible without your generous support.
Thanks!
Tim O’Dea
tim@energycare.org
