Pinellas Impact Story – Creative Clay
Creative Clay’s mission is to help people with disabilities achieve full and inclusive lives through access to the arts by providing expressive, educational and vocational experiences.
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Julia Eccles||Concept College participant Julia Eccles
Concept College inspires students to aim high
Julia Eccles has always struggled with school.
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Competitive Grants Focus: Positive Education
Positive Education is one of five focus areas for competitive grantmaking in 2019-20.
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What’s Right with Tampa Bay – Fox 13 Tampa Bay – 10/17/22
Wonderful to be featured on this Fox 13 Tampa Bay news segment along with our friends at Academy Prep Center of Tampa.
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Virtual Enterprises International brings real-world business education to local students
Virtual Enterprises International has created a digital, international economy of 7,000+ student-run businesses in 40+ countries.
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Walter C. Jaap presents scholarship to awardee
Walter C. Jaap Scholarship Award
On Thursday, July 27, University of South Florida College of Marine Science student Sarah Sullivan became the second recipient of the annual Walter C. Jaap Memorial Scholarship, during a presentation at the Marine Sciences Laboratory.
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Thrive by Five Pinellas to recognize 24 local companies for family-friendly workplaces
Thrive by Five Pinellas, a nonprofit with a mission to support families with young children, will host the first annual Family Friendly Virtual Business Awards Oct. 19 to honor 24 area companies that have taken the lead in implementing family-friendly policies in the work place.
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Thrive by Five Pinellas has a new home at Community Foundation Tampa Bay
Community Foundation Tampa Bay has become the new backbone organization for Thrive by Five Pinellas, a nonprofit focused on supporting families with young children.
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Urban League of Hillsborough County, LEAP Tampa Bay College Access Network and Knack Announce Partnership to Support Complete Tampa Bay Initiative
The Community Foundation of Tampa Bay is pleased to announce a partnership between the Urban League of Hillsborough County (ULHC), LEAP Tampa Bay College Access Network and Knack that will encourage ULHC clients with a desire to return to education or training to do so with the help of an initiative called Complete Tampa Bay (CTB).
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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.
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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.
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Needa Spells
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LEAP Tampa Bay Receives 2021 Member of the Year Award of Excellence from National College Attainment Network
LEAP Tampa Bay College Access Network received the 2021 Member of the Year Award of Excellence from the National College Attainment Network.
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LEAP Tampa Bay Launches New Website Geared Toward Helping Students Reach Their Goal of Education and Training Beyond High School
LEAP Tampa Bay College Access Network (LEAP), a network of more than 70 community partners committed to changing lives by connecting residents to education and training beyond high school, has launched a newly improved website at www.leaptampabay.org.
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Introducing Jerrica Peets, Ph.D., FAAME Project Manager LEAP Tampa Bay College Access Network
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Jerrica Peets to our LEAP Tampa Bay team as the new Project Manager for our Florida African American Male Experience (FAAME) grant partnership with St. Petersburg College (SPC).
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Impact Story – Seniors In Service
Seniors in Service of Tampa Bay is a nonprofit founded in 1984 that provides solutions to community challenges by engaging volunteers age 55+.
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Impact Story – Tampa Bay Watch
Tampa Bay Watch’s large-scale environmental education program, Estuary EDventures, strives to empower Tampa Bay area students to act as stewards of the Tampa Bay estuary by providing field experiences that combine classroom resources with hands-on field experiences at the Tampa Bay Watch Marine Education Center in Tierra Verde.
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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.
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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.
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Impact Story – BlinkNow Foundation
While most of our philanthropy is focused locally, our fundholders sometimes reach around the world with their generosity.
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Harold Corrigan
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Diana Santangelo, Ph.D. joins Community Foundation Tampa Bay as Director, Thrive by Five
The Community Foundation Tampa Bay is pleased to welcome Dr. Diana Santangelo as the new Director, Thrive by Five, a cross-sector network focused on supporting families with young children.
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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.
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Community Foundation Tampa Bay awards eight grants to increase positive education opportunities
The Community Foundation Tampa Bay awarded $221,966 to eight area nonprofit projects in the area of Positive Education, designed to promote environments that meet students where they are developmentally, and to emphasize a growth mindset in students.
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Bay News 9 – 11/28/22 – Hernando schools host mock ‘Shark Tank’ competition
Hernando County Schools hosted its own version of the popular show “Shark Tank” where middle school students created their own businesses & gave their “elevator pitch” to local entrepreneurs.
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Barbara Ann Cole
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