2025 Grant Finalists
Arts, Culture & History
Florida Cultural Group
Initiative Name: Play it Forward: Outfitting a Home for Community Music
Description: The proposed initiative would create a fully furnished, acoustically optimized, and turnkey-ready rehearsal room in the new Sara’s Studios conservatory with the funding of percussion instruments, musician chairs, and music stands.
WSLR+Fogartyville
Initiative Name: Built for Belonging: Fully-Equipped, Flexible, Community-Driven Space for Creativity and Participation
Description: The proposed initiative would convert its static listening venue to a fully equipped, welcoming venue for the community through targeted technology and infrastructure upgrades to its gathering space.
Education
Early Learning Coalition of Manatee County
Initiative Name: ReadingPals and Storytimers
Description: The proposed initiative would strengthen early literacy and school readiness in underserved communities in Manatee County with the addition of family engagement kits and take-home books for the current program for 4-year olds and adding engaging, story-based literacy sessions for 3-year olds.
Selah Freedom
Initiative Name: Safeguarding our Youth - See The Signs
Description: The proposed initiative would raise detection skills for middle school and high school students about the red flags of unhealthy relationships that can lead to trafficking with the addition of a new Prevention Advocate for Sarasota and an age-appropriate video to show in classrooms.
Environment, Recreation & Animal Welfare
Oyster River Ecology
Initiative Name: Suncoast Community-Led Oyster Reef Revival
Description: The proposed initiative would accelerate the restoration effort to revive the important oyster habitat and improve water quality in the Manatee River with the purchase of a cargo trailer, a skiff boat and a pickup truck.
Save Our Seabirds, INC
Initiative Name: Wings of Hope: Pelican Initiative
Description: The proposed initiative would increase the number of birds that can be rehabilitated and ideally returned to their natural habitat with the reconstruction of a hurricane-damaged 20’ x 50’ flight pen enclosure and the addition of an identically-sized structure using stronger materials.
Family
Academy at Glengary, Inc.
Initiative Name: Blueprint of Self-Support (BOSS): A Family Affair
Description: The proposed initiative would help members and their families create personalized plans for independent living, employment, finances, legal needs, special needs trusts, and housing when their caregivers can no longer provide support by funding a Family Care Coordinator.
Manatee Children's Services
Initiative Name: Healing Paws, Helping Hands: Coordinating Treatment and Compassion for Child Abuse Victims
Description: The proposed initiative would strengthen volunteer engagement and help children recover from the trauma of abuse and neglect with comfort, trust, and healing by funding a Volunteer Coordinator and introducing a therapy dog program.
Health & Wellness
Hand Up To Victory
Initiative Name: Next Steps Sarasota
Description: The proposed initiative would support individuals from Sarasota County who are exiting incarceration, detox, treatment programs, or homelessness, significantly improving the outcome for those at the highest risk of relapse or instability by providing immediate housing and essential recovery support.
Loveland Center, Inc.
Initiative Name: Ride Together, Rise Together
Description: The proposed initiative would ensure that individuals with disabilities and seniors residing at Loveland Center have dependable transportation to live active, connected lives with the purchase of four additional accessible vans and minibuses.
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