Category: News

Funded Partner Spotlight: She Wins Totally

Nov 23, 2024News

Lifelong St. Petersburg resident Kenyatta Rucker launched her nonprofit four years ago, after helping people informally for years before that. She Wins Totally received a $10,000 capacity-building grant from the Foundation and Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital. Tell us a little about your nonprofit: It’s named She Wins Totally because she never gives up. We started […]

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Speakers Who Inspire: Author Linda Villarosa to Discuss the Link Between Health and Racism Dec. 10th

Nov 21, 2024Events,Media, Journalist, & PR Professionals,News,Press Release

New York Times Magazine writer and Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Linda Villarosa will discuss the hidden toll of takes on individual and community health at this free event Dec. 10th   (St. Petersburg, Florida) – Join us for an extraordinary evening December 10th with acclaimed journalist and author Linda Villarosa, a contributor to the New York […]

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Their Stories, Our Voices Youth Griot Program

Nov 21, 2024News

The application for our Youth Griot Program is now open! Calling all high school freshmen, sophomores, and juniors: Do you like telling stories? Do you care about local Black history? Do you live or attend school in St. Petersburg? Do you want to strengthen your communication skills and earn a $1,000 stipend in the process? […]

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Funded Partner Spotlight: One Community Grocery Co-Op

Oct 31, 2024News

The vision for One Community Grocery Co-op originated six years ago when a small group of dedicated individuals gathered to discuss the need for food accessibility and sovereignty in South St. Petersburg. The conversation grew, pulling in more and more residents. Today, One Community is focused on a campaign to build their base to 300 […]

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Funded Partner Spotlight: Rise and Thrive Foundation

Sep 30, 2024News

When Kay-Kay Smith moved to St. Petersburg from Miami in 1994, she quickly found herself facing a host of challenges. A career in cosmetology offered her a way to provide for her young son and find stability, even through hard times. Today, she directs the Rise and Thrive Foundation, with a mission of disrupting cycles […]

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Funded Partner Spotlight: Sickle Cell Disease Association – St. Pete Chapter

Aug 30, 2024News

When Mary Murph’s daughters were diagnosed with Sickle Cell Disease more than 50 years ago, information on the condition was hard to find. In her quest to better understand what her daughters were facing and how she could help, Murph wrote dozens of letters to groups all over the country before finally receiving a handful […]

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Funded Partner Spotlight: 360 Eats

Jul 31, 2024News

After graduating from college, Cameron Macleish found himself living in a dumpster diving community in Melbourne, Australia. At first, rescuing food seemed like a major life hack to save money. Soon after, however, he saw the amount of food waste he was witnessing as a major problem – and also an opportunity. After returning home […]

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Funded Partner Spotlight: The Modern Griot Corporation

Jun 28, 2024News

When Modern Griot Corporation Founder Lola Morgan lost her brother in 2016, her family didn’t have the resources to process their grief and work toward healing. Eight years later, Morgan is a certified mental health first aid practitioner and life coach who offers others what she wishes someone had offered her. “After losing my brother, […]

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Juneteenth Events

Jun 13, 2024News

On June 19, 1865, more than two months after the Civil War officially ended, Union troops arrived in Galveston, TX, to inform enslaved people there (and the people who enslaved them) that they were free. Described as a second independence day, Juneteenth commemorates the day when enslaved people in the farthest reaches of the South […]

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Funded Partner Spotlight: SailFuture

Apr 30, 2024News

Ten years ago, SailFuture Co-Founder and CEO Mike Long was a student at New College of Florida when his former high school principal, who had expelled him, reached out with an invitation. “I was really lucky to be where I was at in my life based on the choices I had made when I was […]

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