Centene Corp. Donated $25M Facility to Urban League

The “legacy of the late Michael Neidorff” continues to have a historic impact on the region, according to Michael McMillan, Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis (St. Louis, MO) President and CEO.

On Thursday (April 26), McMillan announced that the Centene Corporation, the company that Neidorff moved from Milwaukee to St. Louis and led from a $40-million single healthcare plan to a global healthcare company with revenues of $125 billion, is donating its Ferguson call center to the Urban League.

McMillan said the Urban League’s newest facility will be called the Centene Connected Community Center. It will house Head Start, workforce development, education, housing, and re-entry programs. It will also have a regional food distribution center and Midwest conference center, which can be used for community events.

“This is the single largest item donated to any particular Urban League [affiliate] in its 114-year history,” McMillan said during a press conference prior to his organization’s 106th annual Dinner Meeting at the Marriott St. Louis Grand Hotel.

“We have been blessed with a multiple decade relationship with Centene.”

The late Neidorff died at 79 on April 7, 2022. He was an Urban League champion and served as board chair and a board member of the St. Louis affiliate.

McMillan said the 45,000-square-foot facility, which is located at 2900 Pershall Road, is scheduled to open this summer.

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