Starting Right, Now is a program meeting the needs of the growing population of homeless families and children in Hillsborough County. They intervene in a uniquely holistic way for their clients. They create an individualized program for each family or youth. Starting Right, Now exposes students to everything in the community taking them to…
To improve the culinary arts and hospitality education of Pinellas County students through scholarships for post-secondary education & support of culinary programs. The Ryan Wells Foundation was established in 2005 in honor of Ryan Wells with a vision of enabling students to live out Ryan’s dream of pursuing a career in the culinary arts and…
Pasco County has approximately five hundred thousand residents with 28% of them senior citizens. One in six of these seniors are food insecure. They are known as the “hidden hungry” because they are homebound and no one ever sees them. Feeding Pasco’s Elderly delivers meals to 800 seniors throughout Pasco County. It is their mission to…
Suncoast Voices for Children is an organization the provides for the unmet physical, psychological, educational and social needs of abused, abandoned and neglected children in Pinellas and Pasco Counties. Established in 2004 this agency has fulfilled every request within their mission. Those requests come from Department of Children & Families case managers, Child Protective Investigators, Guardians…
Since 1972 Metropolitan Ministries has been servicing poor and homeless families in the Tampa Bay area. They are a local, independent, faith-based nonprofit committed to providing hope. They offer many different services from providing food to those who are in need to housing and caring for homeless families. Homelessness is especially…
Everyday Blessings is an organization that serves foster children who have been removed from their homes due to neglect, abuse, or abandonment. They have two locations one in Hillsborough County and one in Sarasota County. The “campus” in Hillsborough County currently serves 28 children. The purpose of Everyday Blessings…
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay’s mission is to provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever. They have been serving the children from Hillsborough, Pinellas, Polk, Pasco, Citrus, Hernando and Sumter counties for nearly 50…