Meet Our 2024 Grant Finalists
Arts, Culture & History
Rise Above Performing Arts Inc.
Initiative Name: Rising Above Expectations to Provide the Ultimate Theatre Environment
Description: The proposed Initiative will enhance and broaden experiences for student performers and audience members by funding upgraded lighting and sound systems, livestreaming equipment, seating, and a new stage.
Wish List (Coming Soon)
The Circus Arts Conservatory
Initiative Name: Circus Arts Conservatory's Magnet School Program Expansion for Booker Middle and Sarasota High Schools
Description: The proposed Initiative will enroll and educate more students in a unique and innovative circus-centric learning program in its existing Magnet School Program with the funding of two additional coaches, class materials and training attire.
Wish List (Coming Soon)
Education
Children's Home Society of Florida
Initiative Name: Pathway to Health and Success
Description: The proposed Initiative will provide nutrition and other educational classes, and access to meat, dairy and fresh produce for area families by expanding Food Pantry and Parent Resource Center services to Manatee and Daughtry Elementary Schools in Manatee County.
Wish List (Coming Soon)
The Florida Center for Early Childhood
Initiative Name: Starfish Academy Transformation Project
Description: The proposed Initiative will enhance it's early education program by creating a new welcoming and authentic learning environment that inspires curiosity and collaboration with the purchase of classroom furniture for its preschool.
Wish List (Coming Soon)
Environment, Recreation & Animal Welfare
Save Our Seabirds
Initiative Name: Avian Hospital - Expansion of Services
Description: The proposed Initiative will expand their geographic service area, improve the quality of medical care given to birds, and allow the Avian Hospital to be open additional hours per week and treat more birds by funding a new hospital technician and twelve paid interns.
Wish List (Coming Soon)
SunCoast Blood Centers
Initiative Name: Sun-Powered Lifesavers: Transforming Bloodmobiles for a Sustainable Future
Description: The proposed Initiative will reduce noise and air pollution and ensure a quiet, reliable, environmentally sustainable and cost-effective blood collection system by converting two bloodmobiles from gas powered generators to solar and battery powered generators.
Wish List (Coming Soon)
Family
Centerstone
Initiative Name: Centerstone's Transformative Children's Wing and New Evidence-Based Therapies to Support Children and Families in Crisis
Description: The proposed Initiative will allow clinical staff to more deeply address children who have experienced trauma by transforming a portion of the Sarasota outpatient clinic into a sensory room in their new Children's Wing.
Wish List (Coming Soon)
Foundation for Dreams, Inc.
Initiative Name: Dream Oaks 2.0: A New Chapter
Description: The proposed Initiative will enhance experiences for children with special needs and chronic illness who attend he Dream Oaks year-round residential and day camps and facilitate coordination of programs by significantly updating their administration building.
Wish List (Coming Soon)
Health & Wellness
NAMI Sarasota and Manatee Counties, Inc.
Initiative Name: Journey to Mental Wellness
Description: The proposed Initiative will increase access to and therefore, participation in NAMI's "You Are Not Alone" (YANA) wellness drop-in centers, reducing depression, improving physical health outcomes, and helping individuals take an active role in their care, with the purchase of a 15 passenger van and hiring of a part time driver.
Wish List (Coming Soon)
Valerie's House
Initiative Name: Supporting Grieving Children in our School System
Description: The proposed Initiative will expand its peer-to-peer grief support services to additional Sarasota County schools, helping students process their grief in a free and accessible manner, with the hiring of a new full time group program coordinator.
Wish List (Coming Soon)
Congratulations to the Ten Nonprofit organizations
selected as 2024 Grant Finalists!
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