Donate $10 to the American Red Cross
by texting HAITI
to 9-0-9-9-9. The donation
will be charged to your phone bill.
The Foundation has several
donors who have been
involved with assistance to
Haiti over the years.
One donor in particular has
recently brought
The
Albert Schweitzer Hospital
Haiti
to our
attention as needing
assistance. He has
worked in this facility and
recommends it highly for its
medical competencies, fiscal
responsibility, and current
physical stability away from
the epicenter. Recent
reports indicate there has
been no physical damage to
the facility, but, as you
can imagine, it is becoming
increasingly busy with an
influx of people seeking
medical attention.
Contact the Community Foundation at
813.282.1975 to use your donor
advised fund to make a donation.
Welcome to your Community Foundation
of Tampa Bay
Celebrating.... The Community Foundation
of Tampa Bay
("Community Foundation" or
"Foundation")
is a trusted administrator of
permanent endowment funds created by a broad spectrum of individuals, families, corporations,
and private foundations.
The Foundation is
honored to be celebrating 20 years
of connecting donors who care with causes that matter. And we
are proud to report that
Foundation expenses are
less than one percent of total Foundation assets.
Grant Making: The Heart of Our
Business The
Jack Romano Scholarship - A band of
brothers helping others
Plant
High School graduates:
L: Jack Romano, 1956
R: Jim O'Connell, 2009
“The most important
things in our life were family,
friends, and community – giving back
to the community,” remembers Tracy
Romano, daughter of Jack and Barbara
Romano. “The involvement of the men
who monitor the Jack Romano
Scholarship reinforces who my dad
was. He was helped when he was
young, and he took the time to give
back to others. Giving back and
being involved were very important
to him.”
Jack Romano died in 2001 after a
battle with cancer. What he gave of
himself during his lifetime may be
his most enduring legacy. Touching
the lives of others – be they
friends or strangers – mattered to
him. His friends, like David Kennedy
who heads the scholarship committee,
have quietly committed themselves to
carrying on that legacy.
James O’Connell,
Plant High School Valedictorian and
Senior Class President of the Class
of 2009, is this year’s winner of
the Jack Romano Scholarship, which
is awarded each year to an
outstanding Plant High School
senior. This scholarship,
established in Jack Romano’s memory
by his closest friends and
administered through the Community
Foundation, will assist Jim to
attend Wake Forest University in
Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
A quote from Jim’s
scholarship application reveals a
part of his deeper nature and a
kinship with the namesake of this
award: “True service takes root in
putting others before oneself. True
service is the ability to derive
happiness from another person’s
positive development.”
“I want to express
how much it means to me that I was
chosen for this scholarship. The
help it offers to my mother and me
will open doors of opportunity that
otherwise would have been shut,"
says O'Connell.
The quiet commitment of this band of
brothers to carry on Jack Romano’s
legacy wasn’t about to be stopped by
mere market turmoil. Their mission
prevailed as they refilled the
scholarship coffers rather than
allow a year to pass without doing
something that mattered for an
outstanding Plant High School senior
– in honor of the memory of their
brother, Jack Romano.
For 20 years, your Community
Foundation has enabled residents and organizations to make a positive impact on our communities
-
by safeguarding the funds entrusted to it
and
-
by
distributing
earnings to many
programs and
projects deemed
worthy by our
donors, grants
committee, and
trustees.
The Community Foundation is a vehicle that supports new and existing programs of local nonprofit organizations in addition to its own community- focused programs. Its endowment is a flexible source of capital used to meet the changing needs that time and growth bring to a community.
Highlights from the
2009 Donor Appreciation Celebration
at Lowry Park Zoo
and more!
Charitable Bang
Per Buck
Biggest
Here
Read The
Tampa
Tribune's "slam dunk"
editorial about the Foundation's
efficiency.
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