Gulf Coast Awards Over $537,000 in Scholarships
Gulf Coast Community Foundation has awarded over half-a-million dollars in scholarships to hundreds of local students for the 2019-20 academic year. More than $215,000 was awarded from the Gulf Coast Community Foundation Scholarship Fund, an endowment established by the foundation’s Board in 1997 to help local students pursue meaningful higher education.
Civility Squad Making District-Wide Difference
One initiative that spread positive change throughout the Sarasota County School District last year was the Civility Squad. Teachers and administrators say the characters lived up to their motto: Saving our (school) community one good deed at a time!
Venice Siblings Engineering Bright Futures
Brothers Trevor and Connor Poole are Venice natives and Venice High School graduates. Both are also students in the Gator Engineering @ SCF program. Trevor was a part of the inaugural class accepted into the program in 2017. His younger brother, Connor, just graduated from Venice High and will be in the program’s third cohort this fall.
Mrs. Iversen and the Power of Endowment
In his latest guest column for SRQ Daily, Gulf Coast President/CEO Mark Pritchett shares Dorothy Iversen's story and the power of endowed philanthropy.Fast-track to successful careers in Sarasota and Manatee Counties
Thanks to fast-track training programs created by CareerEdge and supported by local employers and philanthropists, the days of labor shortages in high-demand technical fields in our region may be numbered.
Homeless Services System Working in Sarasota County
Homelessness in our community is trending downward, according to the latest formal count. And the decrease follows directly from strategic, community-based efforts to serve the unique needs of individuals experiencing homelessness.70% chance of sun, 100% chance of solar growth
On average, there are 251 sunny days per year in Sarasota, which is approximately 70% of the year. As of Earth Day 2019, we should have had roughly 79 wonderful...