RETRO RED 2024 - A Disco Ball

On Saturday, February 10, DOORWAYS hosted its 23rd annual gala. This year’s theme, RETRO RED - A Disco Ball, treated more than 500 guests, sporting glittering attire inspired by flashy retro fashion and the iconic NYC night club, Studio 54, to a fun-filled evening in both the Khorassan Ballroom and Starlight Ballroom at the Chase Park Plaza.



The RED gala, DOORWAYS primary fundraiser, provides essential financial support to our programs and helps provide HOUSING, HEALTH, and HOPE to the more than 3,100 men, women, and children that it serves every year.

A group of nearly 45 dedicated volunteers helped create a memorable evening, giving life and energy to this time-less event which raised more than $400,000.

The evening kicked off with a grand reveal of the dazzling Khorassan Ballroom where guests enjoyed a 3-course meal and participated in the Live Auction, The winner of the Golden Raffle took home a trip to Competa, Spain which was followed by fierce bidding for the highly coveted, Taylor Swift ERAS Concert auction package.

Following dessert, the audience heard from DOORWAYS President and CEO, Opal M. Jones, and were treated to a first look of a short film about an Allen House resident created by ONCE Films titled, “I Needed To Be Addicted To Something”.

When the program concluded with the Fund the Need, party revelers made their way to our very own Studio 35, a Studio 54-influenced disco dance party featuring DJ G-Diddy, located high above the hotel in the Starlight Ballroom where they boogied the night away.

A huge THANK YOU to all those who bought Golden Raffle Tickets, RED Raffle Tickets, attended as a Patron or General ticket holder, or joined as a table guest. Your support is truly appreciated and will provide stable housing, renewed health and hope for a brighter future to those we serve in the community! Thank you.

A full gallery of the fabulous photos from Take Moore Pics of the RED 2024 Gala can be found here.

Special thanks to Endy Events for providing the photo booths for the event.

35th Anniversary

As February ends, we want to thank everyone who celebrated our 35th anniversary over these past 12 months. We are grateful for your donations in honor of this milestone, your photos, and your stories from our past. Long-time friends marvel at how we have changed and grown to meet our mission of providing services to people who are homeless and battling illness from HIV. 

With a goal to bring an end to this community health crisis, we enter our 36th year with hopefulness. Our new campus, additional housing, and 360 degrees of services provided onsite, enables us to provide the resources, linkages, and personal support our clients need to stabilize the environments that determine quality of life and health outcomes: housing, healthcare, food security, income, and community support system. These social determinants of health are interwoven and must be strengthened simultaneously—collapse in one leads to collapse in all. 

Your partnership has been key to our past results and remains key to our future as well. Thank you in advance for joining us in the effort to aide clients in creating the foundation from which they may achieve stability, undetectable status, and opportunity.

GIVE STL Day

Mark your calendars for Give STL Day on Thursday, May 9, 2024. Give STL Day is a 24-hour on-line day-of-giving event, designed to ignite the spirit of giving across the region. Since its inception in 2014, Give STL Day has raised over $23 million for more than 1,000 regional nonprofits.

ALTBALL...An evening of unconventional fashion benefitting DOORWAYS

Part gallery party, part fashion show, part underground ball--ALTBALL is designed to showcase how something fabulous can flourish when the basics are covered.....Mark your calendar for Thursday, May 16 and join us at the Contemporary Art Museum where designers, artists, drag queens, ballroom legends and community volunteers will showcase creation s on the runway while raising funds to mee the needs of DOORWAYS’ housing and self-empowerment programs.

Thank you to our current sponsors: Lewis Rice/Design Luxury, MyHouse Painting Company, Legacy Dental Care, Neiman Marcus, Kim Bouldin-Jones & Mike Reardon, Keith Thompson & Don Foster, and Michael Brave.

STAY TUNED FOR MORE DETAILS!

Current Job Opportunities

DOORWAYS is always on the lookout for compassionate and dedicated people to join us in serving the community. Our services and programs continue to expand and so do our staffing needs. Below is a list of current open positions available agency-wide: