Nonprofits Diversify Funding with Energy Improvements
Partners for Green Places was launched last fall to inspire local organizations to implement sustainability measures through energy- and water-efficiency improvements. Recently, the initiative awarded $161,379 in matching funds to help 10 environmental and human service agencies make cost-saving improvements to their facilities.
What's Next?
More than six weeks into our COVID-19 Response Initiative, we’ve started seeing shifts in funding requests as nonprofits look toward longer-term stabilization and planning.
I3Digital: Here for Our Nonprofit Community Now, and Always
Invest in Incredible, or I3, is Gulf Coast’s initiative to help our regional nonprofit partners achieve their greatest potential. That ambition has held on thro...
Goodwill Manasota: Caring for Its Own amid COVID-19
The coronavirus forced Goodwill to furlough over 600 team members across four counties. A $33,700 grant from Gulf Coast's COVID-19 Response Initiative helped Goodwill quickly hire back five GoodPartner Coaches, who began working immediately to connect with their furloughed Sarasota-area teammates.
$2.7 Million in Direct Grants to Nonprofits for COVID-19 Relief
The latest grants from the COVID-19 Response Initiative target mental-health needs, childcare for first responders, financial assistance for displaced workers, and more.Optimism and Courage in the Face of a Crisis
In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity. Over the past several weeks, many of our nonprofit partners have transformed their operations to meet urgent new community needs. More so, they have done it amid staggering hits to their own operations, personnel and even future viability.
Foundation Grants nearly $1 Million to Arts Groups in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic
With the new round of “Arts Appreciation” Grants, Gulf Coast Community Foundation provides unrestricted funding to 10 cornerstone cultural organizations.Foundations, Donors Grant Over $1.8 Million for COVID-19 Relief
Gulf Coast Community Foundation and Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation have awarded over $880,000 in grants from their joint COVID-19 Response Initiative, providing relief to nonprofit organizations leading the region’s COVID-19 assistance efforts.
New Grants Awarded from Joint COVID-19 Response Initiative
Gulf Coast Community Foundation and Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation awarded 16 grants totaling $573,550 from their joint COVID-19 Response Initiative over the past week.