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Giving Stories

Impact Story – BlinkNow Foundation

While most of our philanthropy is focused locally, our fundholders sometimes reach around the world with their generosity.

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 – 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.

Impact Story – Dunedin Cares Food Bank

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

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 – 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 – 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 – Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services

Gulf Coast JFCS exists to uplift lives for all people, regardless age, religious beliefs, race or gender.

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.

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 – 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+.

Corporate Philanthropy

Smith & Associates Real Estate Launches Philanthropic Foundation

Since its inception over fifty years ago, Smith & Associates Real Estate has been committed to its mission of positively impacting the community.

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 – 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 – 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 – 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.

Impact Story – Best Buddies

Best Buddies International is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to establishing a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment, leadership development, and inclusive living for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).

Impact Story – Humane Society of Tampa Bay

The Humane Society of Tampa Bay saves the lives of over 10,000 homeless pets each year.

Pinellas Impact Story – Reach St. Pete

Thanks to the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay we have been able to prevent over 400 families from going homeless and/or losing services due to the impacts of COVID 19.

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.

WORKING TOGETHER TO PERSEVERE, BUILD AND INSPIRE IN THE FACE OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Suddenly in mid-March 2020, as our state sheltered in place to combat the coronavirus, our nonprofit community found itself on the front lines – with increased demand for services, disrupted fundraising and abrupt closures.

Update: Connecting Philanthropy and Community Need During Covid-19

The Community Foundation of Tampa Bay has mobilized its funding resources and its ability to connect the community during the COVID-19 crisis by establishing collaborative tools to match local nonprofits’ needs with philanthropists.

Complete Tampa Bay Can Help You Return to Learn!

Complete Tampa Bay will provide free, personalized coaching and assistance for those with prior college or technical training experience.

Community Foundation of Tampa Bay receives $500,000 commitment from The Humana Foundation for COVID-19 response

The Community Foundation of Tampa Bay has received a $500,000 commitment from The Humana Foundation to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Tampa Bay region

LifePath Hospice received a donation from the Nonprofit Needs List for PPE

Connecting philanthropy with community’s needs during COVID-19

The Community Foundation of Tampa Bay has mobilized both its funding resources and its ability to connect to the community during the COVID-19 crisis by establishing collaborative tools to match local nonprofits’ needs with givers.

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Love IV Lawrence

Conversation, education decrease stigma around mental health

The family and friends of Lawrence Hundley Dimmitt IV wanted to take action after his death by suicide in 2017 at 32.

Celebrating generosity during 2019 National Philanthropy Day

Those who give can benefit as much as those who receive was the main takeaway from honorees at the recent National Philanthropy Day celebration

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