“Aptly named local nonprofit Building Futures recently got a boost for its mission of inspiring youth in the city of St. Louis through hands-on design build workshops with a brand new space in an Old North St. Louis building purchased by the Kranzberg Arts Foundation. Last year alone, Building Futures assisted 650 local K-12 kids, many of them at-risk, teaching them valuable trade skills in design and construction through computers, drawing, model-building and problem solving as well as working with hand and power tools.”