Gulf Coast helps Selby Gardens support underserved families; SCC 'Angels' need assistance - Sarasota Herald-Tribune

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Selby Gardens receives $60,000Gulf Coast Arts Appreciation Grant

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens has received a $60,000 Arts Appreciation Grant from the Gulf Coast Community Foundation to enactment 2 exhibitions astatine The Living Museum. The grant, funded successful portion by the Mildred and Garrett Eelman Charitable Fund, besides helps Selby Gardens supply yearlong household memberships for underserved younker and their families done the My Garden program.

“We are grateful for this endorsement of our enactment successful the section arts and taste community,” Selby president and CEO Jennifer Rominiecki said. “Gulf Coast’s Arts Appreciation backing means we tin link much radical to creation and quality successful innovative ways and we tin invited much families to our bayfront sanctuaries who mightiness not different beryllium capable to visit.”

The Arts Appreciation Grant volition assistance underwrite the Jean & Alfred Goldstein Exhibition, "Tiffany: The Pursuit of Beauty successful Nature." The amusement volition item the innovation of American creator and decorator Louis Comfort Tiffany and opens astatine Selby Gardens’ Downtown Sarasota field successful February. Gulf Coast besides continues its Lead Sponsorship of "Seeing the Invisible," which is connected presumption regular astatine the Historic Spanish Point field successful Osprey.

Gulf Coast’s Arts Appreciation Grants enactment arts and taste organizations that are starring contributors to the determination system and taste estimation of Sarasota County. In all, the instauration awarded $710,000 successful Arts Appreciation Grants to 13 nonprofit organizations this year.

SCC's Angels Program seekscommunity's vacation support

The Safe Children Coalition's Angels Program is seeking assemblage members who tin supply vacation privation database items to foster children and different susceptible children successful Sarasota, Manatee and DeSoto counties.

"The vacation play provides the cleanable accidental to springiness backmost to radical who are facing challenges wrong our communities," Safe Children Coalition president and CEO Brena Slater said. "For foster children and different susceptible youths, who person been done truthful overmuch successful their young lives, adjacent a small kindness and compassion tin spell specified a agelong way."

Families, businesses, nonprofits, and spiritual institutions tin motion up for a privation database at sccfl.org/angels, and past bring the gifts to the Safe Children Coalition. Monetary donations besides tin beryllium made that assistance enactment programs for children who are homeless, abused, and neglected. Gifts are being accepted done Dec. 16. For much accusation oregon to petition a privation list, visit sccfl.org/angels, email angels@sccfl.org, oregon telephone 941-356-9445.

Children First gains fundingfor Changemaker Challenge

Children First, which serves hundreds of Sarasota County children and their families surviving astatine oregon beneath the Federal Poverty Level, has received a $50,000 assistance done the Gulf Coast Community Foundation and the Jarrett Family Fund to enactment the agency’s $600,000 Changemaker Collective Challenge Match.

“Gulf Coast Community Foundation has been a steadfast spouse successful helping america marque our ngo imaginable each and each day," CEO Philip Tavill said. "Over 25 years, Gulf Coast and its donors person provided much than $4.9 cardinal successful nonstop enactment to those we serve."

The Changemaker Collective is an inaugural for leaders who spell supra and beyond successful serving the assemblage and privation to marque an concern successful the tools children and families request to execute their afloat potential. All enactment volition beryllium matched with an wide extremity to rise $1.2 million. Children First besides received a $50,000 assistance from Gulf Coast to enactment its children, families, and unit members pursuing Hurricane Ian.

Sarasota County Long Term Recovery Group plans meeting

Community members, leaders, and stakeholders with an expertise and passionateness for helping Sarasota County retrieve from the devastation of Hurricane Ian are invited to be the Sarasota County Long Term Recovery Group Kickoff Meeting connected Dec. 13.

The radical includes representatives from faith-based, nonprofit, government, concern and different organizations that are moving to assistance individuals and families retrieve from disaster. The gathering volition beryllium 3:30-5 p.m. astatine the Emergency Operations Center, 6050 Porter Way, Sarasota.

Registration is disposable astatine bit.ly/3Y7tG0e oregon by calling the United Way of South Sarasota County bureau astatine 941-484-4811. All are invited to be the gathering and larn more.

Around and astir ...

First Methodist Church is hosting a festival and fundraiser, "Eat Pierogi, Save Ukraine," contiguous from noon-5 p.m. astatine 104 S. Pineapple Ave., Sarasota. The lawsuit volition see unrecorded music, dancing, and taste workshops. Donations of lukewarm covering and toys for children besides volition beryllium accepted. All proceeds volition enactment Ukrainians and Ukrainian refugees. 

• The 31st yearly Englewood United Methodist Church Community Christmas Dinner is scheduled Dec. 25 arsenic a drive-through and pickup lawsuit successful the church's parking batch astatine 700 E. Dearborn St., Englewood. Delivery volition beryllium disposable for homebound individuals. Donations are appreciated but not required. Info: 941-474-5588 Monday-Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Submissions by Christine McKelvey, Greg Luberecki, Sharon Kunkel, Evan Ackerman, Jaiden Johnson, Ilona Sakovich, Caroline McCoy.