In the spirit of collaboration, the people of the University of Missouri–St. Louis forge community partnerships that reach throughout St. Louis and Missouri to uplift, delight, improve and aid. This map represents a small sample of these efforts by the College of Business Administration, the College of Education, the College of Nursing, the College of Optometry, the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, the Department of Psychology, the Des Lee Collaborative Vision, the E. Desmond Lee Fine Arts Education Collaborative, the Missouri Institute of Mental Health and the Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center.

UMSL criminologists Chris Sullivan, Lee Slocum contributing expertise in research, data collection to Save Lives Now! initiative
Save Lives Now! has a goal of reducing violent street crime across the St. Louis region by 20% over the next three years.