September 25, 2023

Sarasota County Commission cuts childcare, homeless services, Boys and Girls Clubs funds

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Amid ongoing crises in housing and childcare, thousands of local children, working families, and residents facing homelessness will be hurt by major cuts to social service programs approved by…

May 5, 2023

Harvest House awarded $120,000 grant to support '2Gen' programs

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Harvest House has received a $120,000, three-year grant from the Community Foundation of Sarasota County to provide classroom equipment for the organization's Life Enrichment Campus and to sup…

February 28, 2023

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

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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

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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 25, 2023

From heartbreak to homecoming: Season of Sharing helps Sarasota family plant roots

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

Michael Knowles and partner Ginger Remington had spent two years fixing up the old RV. Some days, nine months pregnant with their third child, Ginger could be found up on a ladder, pounding aw…

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…

December 27, 2022

A simple accident: Venice woman helped by Season of Sharing after multiple setbacks

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

Cindy Brenner was an independent spirit, about to embark on a new chapter of her life. Leading up to that weekend in March, she expected her divorce to be finalized soon. Work was humming alon…

December 20, 2022

Returning home: Season of Sharing helps Bradenton couple with a dream of home

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

The day that Vicki Barber spread her mother’s ashes at Sanibel Island, she knew it was her time. Time to live her own life. Her kids were grown. Her dear mom gone. Her cancer in remis…