Gulf Coast Awards $728,000 In Leveraged, Community Grants
Gulf Coast Community Foundation’s Board of Directors recently awarded nine Leveraged Grants totaling $462,000 for a range of major nonprofit programs and servic...
Reading Recovery Continues to Shine in Sarasota Schools
The results are in: Reading Recovery in Sarasota County Schools has outpaced the national average of success for this widely implemented literacy intervention f...
Social Media Expert Shares “Future of Marketing” with Region’s Nonprofits
On October 17, Gulf Coast Community Foundation presented “The Future of #Marketing,” a half-day seminar for nonprofit organizations led by social-media marketing expert and author Carlos Gil. It was this year’s signature event for Gulf Coast’s nonprofit capacity-building initiative, Invest in Incredible.
Girls Join Gulf Coast Staff for Hike of a (Young) Lifetime
Imagine being born and raised in Florida and never seeing an alligator? It’s probably more common than you realize, but one young Sarasota girl recently spotted...
Donor’s Legacy Continues to Empower Women in Charlotte
Gulf Coast Community Foundation’s Board of Directors recently approved three grants totaling $67,000 from the Miriam P. Raines Charitable Fund, an endowment cre...
Preventing homeless youth—one family at a time
We can all agree that every child deserves a home. Yet as many as 1,000 students in the Sarasota County public school system are identified as homeless each year. Let that sink in. In a school district with roughly 43,000 students, one in 43 is homeless.