A 'Do List' to Improve Water Quality
The following guest column by Gulf Coast President/CEO Mark Pritchett appeared in the January 16 edition of SRQ Daily. He provides additional background information on how the Community Playbook for Healthy Waterways came to be.
Gulf Coast Releases Groundbreaking 'Water Quality Playbook'
Gulf Coast Community Foundation has published a first-of-its-kind resource to spur and guide community-wide action to transform environmental water quality throughout the Sarasota County region.
Scholarship Application Open Now
Gulf Coast Community Foundation is now accepting applications for its 2021-22 scholarship program. The deadline to apply is Thursday, March 4.
Inside Philanthropy: Community Foundations Helping County Go Green
“Our whole goal is not, so to speak, working within the Gulf Coast, but working within the community so it becomes a community movement,” said Jon Thaxton, senior vice president for community investment at Gulf Coast Community Foundation.
Stories from the Front
For our final blog of 2020, we asked some members of our Gulf Coast team to share a favorite moment of philanthropy from this year that other might not have seen...
$13 Million in Grants from Gulf Coast Donors
Gulf Coast Community Foundation awarded $13.1 million in grants on behalf of donors to the foundation from September through November. “Our donors have been amazingly generous to our community this year,” said Kirstin Fulkerson, senior vice president for philanthropy.
For Some, A Year Worth Remembering
The following guest column by Gulf Coast President|CEO Mark Pritchett appeared in the December 19 edition of SRQ Daily. He reflects on some of the great things that came out of such a difficult year.
Here4YOUth on Mental Health
In Mark Pritchett's November 21 guest column in SRQ Daily, he reminds us how important it is to support the local youth programs on the frontline for mental health services.
Informing Decisions on Mental Health
A first-of-its-kind analysis of the mental-health system in Sarasota County has found several opportunities to increase ROI on our community's investment in mental and behavioral health supports.
An Update on The Bay
Today marks seven years to the day that Gulf Coast Community Foundation got involved on the ground floor of The Bay, the once-in-several-generations opportunity...