Community Foundation of Greater Sun City Center

PREVIOUS GRANTS

 

Donors of the Women's Fund hear Voices for Children of Hillsborough County

The Guardian Ad Litem program of Voices for Children of Hillsborough County was the recipient of this year's grant from the Women's Fund within the Community Foundation of Greater Sun City Center.  The presentation of the check for $15,000 was made by Foundation Council Chair Evelyn Lunsford at the annual luncheon held November 19, 2009 at Club Renaissance in Sun City Center.

OTHER GRANTS

South Shore Arts Council	For the community mural project, the Big Draw, SSAC music, drama, dance and literature events, and the high school arts competition
Humane Society of Tampa Bay	To fund the Free shot clinic
Apollo Beach Elementary School	To build a covered pavilion
LifePath Hospice	To fund a Spanish version of the Hospice manual
South County Career Center	Using TABE and school-wide reading to improve achievement
Calvary Lutheran Church / Calvary's Community Cupboard	To help feed the needy
SCC Community Association / Men's Chorus	To help purchase new shirts
Sawdust Engineers	For the dust collection system
Society of St. Vincent de Paul	For the St. Anne conference
Our Lady of Guadalupe Food Pantry	To restock the food pantry and help feed the needy
Earl J. Lennard High School	To support the wrestling and baseball teams and to provide items necessary to complete the LPN Program
Riverview High School	For the presentation of two plays
International Independent Showmen's Museum	For digitalization and internet site for Museum
Youth Environmental Services	For participation in the Summer Olympics Program
South Shore Regional Library	For teen art classes
Museum of Science and Industry	For Hispanic Scientist of the Year Award
Military Officers Benevolent Corporation	To support homeless women veterans
Bloomingdale High School Orchestra	To support an orchestral salute to the 2008 Beijing Olympics
South Shore Junior Longhorns	For the start-up cost (a Pop Warner sports organization)

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION AWARDS $100,000 CHALLENGE GRANT

The Community Foundation of Greater Sun City has awarded LifePath Hospice a challenge grant to help generate support for its innovative hospice program.  Under terms of the grant, the Foundation will match the first $100,000 of donations made or pledged to this program by other donors and are secured by February 2009.

The residential program provides the ability to serve patients who are suffering from life-limiting illness, but who do not require the more acute level of care provided in the Hospice House setting.  This also gives patients and families more options when the patient has no suitable place to live, or is unable to receive adequate care at home.

"This program is unique in the hospice movement and currently does not get reimbursed by traditional payment sources, to the extent that inpatient care in the Hospice House does," said Donna Badgero, R.N., LifePath Hospice Residence clinical team leader.  "The Residence provides a wonderful option for many of our patients, and donations from the community are needed to help defray the costs."

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ó With a grant from the George A. Lutz Estate within the Community Foundation of Greater Sun City Center, the Ruskin Historical Society was able to establish the South Shore Children's History and Science Club.  The mission of the club is to preserve, promote and educate South Shore residents about local history and science issues.

ó The Community Foundation of Greater Sun City Center showed its support in the education of children through a donation to the Redlands Christian Migrant Association Academy in Wimauma.  The funds will provide supplemental assistance to low-income families who can't afford the full price of school program.

ó With generous contributions from Sun City Center resident Arlene Oakley and the Community Foundation of Greater Sun City Center, renovations to the Rollins Theater has begun.  Plans are in place for a new sound system, more comfortable seating, new flooring, and much more.

ó Hazel Bryson, a founding donor of the Community Foundation of Greater Sun City Center, established her field-of-interest fund to benefit literacy programs for pre-school and elementary school children. The local Council has continued Hazel's focus on literacy by recently awarding $4,500 to Gibsonton Elementary School for the purchase of a Leap Frog Leap Pad Learning System which would benefit 510 Kindergarten through third grade students.

     At the same meeting, the Council approved $5,000 to The Hope Fund for the Children of Bethune Park. This grant will be used to purchase books for the recently established Reading Room located at the park and operated by The Hope Fund.

ó Continuing support for its local Hispanic population, the Sun City Center affiliate again provided funding for the annual Hispanic Scientist of the Year Award sponsored by MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry). The grant provides transportation and cost of attendance to the dinner for south county students as they see their role models recognized.


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