Category: 10 Years of Impact
10 Year Spotlight: Data & Research Through the Decade
A Decade of Making a Difference Through the Foundation’s decade of impact, we’ve helped produce and fund more than a dozen research reports on topics ranging from education, to the access and utilization of medical care, to economic opportunity. One of the most notable reports we helped produce for our community is An Equity Profile […]
10-Year Spotlight: Pinellas County Medical Legal Partnership
A Decade of Making a Difference In 2018, the Foundation awarded a transformative grant of just more than $1 million to fund a unique collaboration designed to improve patient health and outcomes by connecting medical and legal services. The Pinellas County Medical-Legal Partnership Project worked to integrate legal professionals into a health care setting at […]
10 Year Spotlight: Shifting Narratives, From Reunion to Razed
A Decade of Making a Difference In 2021, the Foundation helped fund a reunion of the Gas Plant and Laurel Park neighborhoods, bringing together former residents and family members who were displaced from their homes to make way for the construction of Tropicana Field. In doing so, the Foundation helped create a space for residents […]
10 Year Spotlight: Q&A with Gaylynn Driver
A Decade of Difference-Making: Celebrating the Foundation’s First 10 Years Ten years ago, the Foundation hired its first team members and began work in our local community. Office Administrator Gaylynn Driver was there. As our longest serving team member, here since day one, Gaylynn has seen it all – from the formation of our team […]
10 Year Spotlight: Meeting the Moment – COVID Response
A Decade of Making a Difference Crisis calls for rapid adaptation and, in 2020, the Foundation board, partners, and community rose to meet the challenge. Early in the pandemic, we opened our Center for Health Equity to community partner 211, who used the space to process $1.5 million in federal financial assistance for people in […]
10 Years of Impact Spotlight: Thrive by Five Tampa Bay
A Decade of Making a Difference In December 2017, the Foundation was the first funder of a new initiative designed to unite different sectors of the community around a common goal: to increase the percentage of Pinellas County children ready to succeed in kindergarten. Today, more than seven years after that initial grant, Thrive by […]