The Boys & Girls Clubs of Sarasota and DeSoto counties has received a $1 million investment from Gulf Coast Community Foundation to help build its new Gene Matthews Boys & Girls Club in North Port. The original club was destroyed by Hurricane Ian in September 2022.

The Patterson Foundation has announced it will contribute $500,000 in seed funding to the Community Foundation of Sarasota County’s Suncoast Disaster Recovery Fund. The funding will support ongoing and future long-term recovery efforts in areas of Charlotte, DeSoto, Manatee and Sarasota counties impacted by disasters.

Sarasota Opera has been awarded a $60,000 Empowering Arts Grant from Gulf
Coast Community Foundation, which will support the opera's programming and operations throughout the 2025-2026 season. 

The Susan Terry Foundation, which launched last month, has awarded its inaugural $25,000 grants to support two projects in the Sarasota and Tampa Bay area: Church of the Trinity Metropolitan Community Church in Sarasota, to create a space honors the history and victims of the AIDS epidemic; andTampa General Hospital and University of South Florida Department of Emergency Medicine to establish a pioneering Peer PrEP Navigator program within the Emergency Department at Tampa General to connect high-risk individuals with HIV prevention resources.

The Florida Center for Early Childhood has received a $10,000 grant from the Wilson-Wood Foundation to provide speech-language and occupational therapy to children who are uninsured, underinsured, or unable to pay for services.