Total Amount Awarded this Cycle $4,172,445
ALSO Youth
$20,288
Mental Health Therapy – 2 week Summer Camp and printer/copier
Big Brother Big Sisters
$20,000
Mentoring services – Beyond School Walls
Boys & Girls Clubs of Manatee
$35,000
Healthy Eats program, identification and preparation of healthy nutritious food.
CCH dba Turning Points
$192,147
Fund 208 hours of dentist time to provide free dental services to qualifying low/no income people.
Early Learning Coalition
$50,000
Fund Spot On – weekly professional development and collaboration at childcare centers.
Easter Seals
$50,000
Summer Excel – summer program for children with disabilities.
Forty Carrots
$50,000
Fund Partners in Play Program offered at six Manatee County Libraries.
Healthy Teens
#35,500
Sustain the operations – support staff in recruiting, training, and mentoring teens.
Help to Home
$1,500,000
Support for Phase I of building supportive housing units – 53 total.
Jewish Family & Children’s Services
#35,000
Support Camp Mariposa – addiction prevention program for youth impacted by a family member’s addiction.
Mote Marine
$1,000,000
4th year of 5 year pledge for education support at new facility near UTC mall.
Meals on Wheels Plus
$35,000
Purchase of a new forklift, with $2500 trade in from old forklift.
NAMI – Sarasota and Manatee Counties
$80,900
Funding to support program staff and related expenses to increase their long term outreach/peer support.
Parenting Matters
$25,000
Funding to support adoptive families – education, counseling, case management, respite care.
Second Heart Homes
$400,000
Purchase of a third home for homeless adults with mental health issues/the underserved in Manatee County.
Stillpoint Mission
$17,500
To provide utility assistance to those who are low income.
UF Foundation
$200,000
Increase support for IBD/Celiac Disease Researching genomics, therapies, patient support, nutrition/ed.
United Way Suncoast
$120.110
Work with 60 1st graders to increase reading skills, fund family literacy nights – funding in home libraries.
Visible Men Academy
$150,000
Support 2 year implementation of project to recruit/retain boys with mild to moderate learning and behavioral challenges.
American Cancer Society
$156,000
Pledge for 2022 for cancer research