Foundations Help Sarasota High Schools Get ‘Innovative’
Sarasota County Schools unveiled six redesigned ILA classrooms created and implemented through a partnership with Ringling College of Art and Design, Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation, and Gulf Coast Community Foundation. The innovative classrooms are part of a larger effort to transform the learning experience for ILA students by improving content delivery, student engagement, and teacher retention.
Gulf Coast Community Foundation Hosts Board Institute Reunion
Sixty-two nonprofit board members from across the region gathered at the Venice Yacht Club for the first ever Gulf Coast Board Institute (GCBI) reunion. GCBI is a part of Gulf Coast’s Invest in Incredible initiative (I3) to provide high-level board governance training to new and veteran nonprofit board members in the Gulf Coast region.
Reading Recovery Continues to Shine in Sarasota Schools
The results are in: Reading Recovery in Sarasota County Schools has outpaced the national average of success for this widely implemented literacy intervention f...
Social Media Expert Shares “Future of Marketing” with Region’s Nonprofits
On October 17, Gulf Coast Community Foundation presented “The Future of #Marketing,” a half-day seminar for nonprofit organizations led by social-media marketing expert and author Carlos Gil. It was this year’s signature event for Gulf Coast’s nonprofit capacity-building initiative, Invest in Incredible.
Girls Join Gulf Coast Staff for Hike of a (Young) Lifetime
Imagine being born and raised in Florida and never seeing an alligator? It’s probably more common than you realize, but one young Sarasota girl recently spotted...
Donor’s Legacy Continues to Empower Women in Charlotte
Gulf Coast Community Foundation’s Board of Directors recently approved three grants totaling $67,000 from the Miriam P. Raines Charitable Fund, an endowment cre...
Preventing homeless youth—one family at a time
We can all agree that every child deserves a home. Yet as many as 1,000 students in the Sarasota County public school system are identified as homeless each year. Let that sink in. In a school district with roughly 43,000 students, one in 43 is homeless.
HOT Teams Help Homeless Find Path to Housing
The City of Sarasota’s Homeless Outreach Team, or “HOT team,” works day in and day out to offer assistance to homeless individuals. Staffed by Sarasota Police Department law-enforcement officers and civilian case workers, the City’s HOT team meets individuals in need of housing where they are—geographically, psychologically, and emotionally. Homelessness is unlikely to ever be eradicated. But since our community began working together to transform Sarasota’s homeless crisis response system, we have remained focused on making the experience of homelessness here rare, brief, and nonrecurring.
The Academy: Part of the Solution on Mental Health
The Academy serves an unmet need in Sarasota County, helping individuals with mental illness recover and reintegrate into the community through employment. The niche training facility offers members opportunities in three vocational areas: culinary arts and hospitality services, graphic arts and design, and community relations. When they’re ready, members are able to pursue some of the careers in high demand in our region.