September 11, 2023

Sarasota's growing number of short-term rentals may have an impact on housing crisis

By Homepage - Story of Impact, Saundra Amrhein,

Noise, traffic and changes to community character are the topics that tend to dominate recent debates about the area's booming increase in short-term vacation rentals.

But Cicely Ho…

March 6, 2023

Home is Where the Heart Is

By Blog, Roxie Jerde, Homepage - Story of Impact,

Our basic need for a home—for the shelter, security, and sanctuary a home provides—is a universal human need. While headlines are aswirl with stories of rent escalations and affor…

March 6, 2023

New Sarasota housing collaborative partners with landlords for more rentals amid crisis

By Blog, Homepage - Story of Impact, Saundra Amrhein,

Jonathan Frankel has called Sarasota home for 33 years. His kids went to local schools, he owned a nice house, and he ran a thriving tiling business. “I was the marble man for the rich a…

February 28, 2023

Community Foundation of Sarasota County Taps Unique Funding to Support Affordable Housing Opportunity for Project 180

By Press Release, Blog,

Through a combination of grant and program-related investment, formerly incarcerated citizens remain sheltered and connected In a bid to circumvent homelessness that can lead to recidivi…

February 13, 2023

Season of Sharing raises $3.67 million from community to help neighbors in crisis

By Blog, Homepage - Story of Impact, Saundra Amrhein,

After a year in which a hurricane piled another crisis atop many already weighing upon working families, local residents came through once more to help their neighbors – raising more tha…

January 30, 2023

Season of Sharing helps Sarasota teacher and family displaced by storm

By Story, Homepage - Story of Impact, The Herald-Tribune Media Group, Saundra Amrhein,

For years, Chris Rhodes, a special education teacher in Chicago, felt stunted and overworked. With teaching prospects in Florida, Chris and his wife jumped at the chance to move. Before long…

January 18, 2023

Broken to belonging: Venice man transforms with help from Season of Sharing

By Homepage - Story of Impact, Saundra Amrhein,

The night his life would start to change, Daniel Vowell was drunk and high. And his father, like many times before, was in his face, telling him to stop his ways, turn his life around. To Dani…

January 10, 2023

Power of laughter: Season of Sharing helps Lakewood Ranch couple raising grandkids

By Blog, Homepage - Story of Impact, The Herald-Tribune Media Group, Saundra Amrhein,

Angie and Marvin Gore craved a fresh start. Behind them was a string of disasters – a tornado, a stroke and a burned-down house. When they visited Florida five years ago, Manatee County…

January 4, 2023

Season of Sharing helps dozens of families after halt in Sarasota County childcare aid

By Story, Homepage - Story of Impact, The Herald-Tribune Media Group, Saundra Amrhein,

Victoria Lopez and Lee LaVallee were just starting to feel caught up. The parents – military veterans raising three kids in a working-class neighborhood of North Port – had good, w…