Physical Health and Mental Wellbeing

Competitive Grants Focus: Mental Well-Being

Mental Well-Being is one of five focus areas for competitive grantmaking in 2019-20.

Mental Health First Aid

Grants

Community Foundation of Tampa Bay launches new mental health initiative, opens Pinellas County office

The Community Foundation of Tampa Bay has launched a new mental health initiative as it also opens a new Pinellas County office.

Vibrant and Engaged Communities

What’s Right with Tampa Bay – Fox 13 Tampa Bay – 11/28/22

A mother and son are serving up a fresh idea. They are bringing meals into needy communities by using food that would have gone to waste.

Tampa Bay Partnership and the USF Muma College of Business unveil key economic findings at ‘State of the Region’ annual event

he Tampa Bay Partnership and University of South Florida Muma College of Business announced the release of two key economic competitiveness reports that benchmark the regions’ advancements against 19 comparable communities.

Man putting up metal shutters on a window

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant aids hurricane recovery & increases disaster preparedness

The Community Foundation Tampa Bay has received a $300,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which is committed to improving health and health equity in the United States.

Restoring Hope at Mary & Martha House After Hurricane Helene

When Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton struck, their devastation was felt throughout South Hillsborough County.

Young children running into school in their uniforms and with their backpacks

Rebuilding Futures: Supporting Children and Schools Though Hurricane Recovery

In the aftermath of hurricanes like Helene and Milton, our community’s K-12 children face enormous challenges.

Philanthropic partnership meets Sun City Center residents’ needs

The face of food insecurity wears many masks. It may be your neighbor across the street, the little kid in the crosswalk that waves to you each morning on your commute, or the elderly lady so readily eager to give you smile as you pass her walking her dog.

Critical Needs List

PCAT Literacy Ministries: Supporting Students and Families Through Hurricane Recovery

When Hurricanes Helene and Milton swept through Tampa Bay, they left behind more than damaged buildings and flooded streets—they uprooted lives.

Critical Needs List

Endowments

One year later, our community’s needs are greater than ever

Over the past year, COVID-19 has attacked much more than our physical health.

Impact Story – Sun City Center Emergency Squad

Every year the Emergency Squad responds to over 5000 calls for emergency service.

Impact Story – Voices for Children

The mission of Voices for Children is to provide support and advocacy for the abused, neglected, and abandoned children in our community.

Impact Story – PARC, Inc.

A lot has changed since 1953, when PARC was founded, but one thing has remained the same and that is PARC’s mission, to provide opportunities for children & adults with developmental disabilities to exercise their independence and experience life to the fullest.

Impact Story – Pasco Kids First

The mission of Pasco Kids First is to keep kids safe, strengthen families through empowerment and enhance our community by preventing child abuse and healing children from trauma.

Impact Story – Hindu Family Support Services

HFSS is a faith-based nonprofit that provides culturally sensitive services to empower survivors of gender-based violence in the South Asian diaspora through awareness, advocacy and economic agency.

Impact Story – Florida 1.27

Many churches want to help solve the foster crisis, but they don’t know where to begin – that is where Florida 1.27 has been making an impact since 2015.

Impact Story – Girls on the Run Greater Tampa Bay

We are proud to see Dana using her “Jar of Joy” full of positive comments and “activating her Star Power” that she is learning at GOTR! – Laura Moore, Executive Director of Girls on the Run Greater Tampa Bay

Impact Story – Good Samaritan Health Clinic of Pasco

Good Samaritan Health Clinic of Pasco (GSHC) just celebrated its 30 year anniversary of operations in Pasco County, Florida.

Hillsborough

Impact Story – Enterprising Latinas

Founded in 2009, Enterprising Latinas set out to promote economic mobility among women to enable them to achieve their personal goals and aspirations, to teach skills and offer tools that lead to greater prosperity, and transform community challenges into new economic opportunities in places like Wimauma.

Impact Story – Dunedin Cares Food Bank

Since opening in 2015, Dunedin Cares Food Pantry has come a long way.

Impact Story – Crisis Center of Tampa Bay

The mission of the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay is to ensure that no one in our community has to face a crisis alone.

Impact Story – Champions for Children’s Talk Read Sing

TALK READ SING Tampa Bay is a community awareness campaign led by Champions for Children that educates Tampa Bay residents, especially parents, about the importance of talking, reading and singing beginning at birth to build brain architecture and increase language development.

Impact Story – CASA (Citrus County Abuse Shelter Association, Inc.)

Since 1983, Citrus County Abuse Shelter Association, Inc. (CASA) has been helping victims of domestic violence and their children to become free of abusive relationships and violent homes.

Vibrant and Engaged Communities

Impact Story – 360 Eats and Addressing Food Insecurity

The Community Foundation Tampa Bay often makes early investments in nonprofits that are taking a creative or nontraditional approach to addressing a community need.

Hurricanes & Mental Health: Helping Nonprofits Make a Lasting Impact

When hurricanes strike, the physical toll is obvious—damaged homes, disrupted lives, and communities left to rebuild.

Community Initiatives

Community Foundation of Tampa Bay offers Mental Health First Aid training program in Spanish

The Community Foundation of Tampa Bay is now offering its “Mental Health First Aid” nationally certified training course in Spanish.

Community Foundation of Tampa Bay’s South Shore Council grant expands mental health services in south Hillsborough County

Hillsborough County families received much-needed access to mental health care through a grant to Seniors in Service from the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay and Hillsborough County.

Community Initiatives

Community Foundation of Tampa Bay expands Mental Health First Aid training program

The Community Foundation of Tampa Bay is expanding the ways that people can take part in its “Mental Health First Aid” nationally certified training course.

Community Foundation Tampa Bay awards funding to 10 local nonprofits during Mental Health Awareness Month

The Community Foundation Tampa Bay has provided over $200K in funding to ten local nonprofits to increase mental well-being among residents.

Grants

Quality Child and youth Education

Environmental Resiliency and Sustainability

Vibrant and Engaged Communities

Community Foundation Tampa Bay awards $1.7M in grants to local nonprofits

The Community Foundation Tampa Bay has selected 58 projects from local nonprofits to receive a total of $1,706,006 through its competitive grant process including $1,313,182 for the FY23 competitive grant process and 9 organizations being awarded multi-year opportunities totaling $392,824 in additional investments.