Inside The Café

The Urban Studio Café is a non-profit cafe with a mission to foster a sense of strong community, creativity, knowledge and enrichment while providing a quality cup of joe. The Urban Studio Café supports the community by focusing on six goals:

  1. Generate profits to provide funding for The Urban Studio art programs.

  2. Create jobs and provide job-skills training with financial literacy.

  3. Serve as a gathering place to strengthen the social fabric of the neighborhood.

  4. Create an atmosphere of creativity and possibility through events and programs.

  5. Be a catalyst for economic revitalization in the Old North St. Louis neighborhood.

  6. Be a model social venture for other emerging community cafes.

In April 2009, The Urban Studio Café won the Skandalaris Center’s Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition, the largest social entreprise competition in the world!