Out of Darkness

This is What It's Like to Work With a Guide Dog

The dogs at Palmetto's Southeastern Guide Dogs are the product of two years and thousands of dollars worth of intensive training and selective breeding.

10/01/2018 By Isaac Eger

Construction

'Puppy Academy' Opens

Southeastern Guide Dogs this week opened its new Grant & Shirle Herron Puppy Academy.

04/13/2017 By staff

Going to the Dogs

Superheroes on Parade Fill Downtown

The sculpture campaign benefiting Southeastern Guide Dogs winds up Oct. 8 and 9 with this display.

10/03/2016 By Kay Kipling

Weekend Planner

Your Top 5 Things to Do: Sept. 22-28

Van Wezel’s last Friday Fest of the season; this Saturday’s free at South Florida Museum, Historic Spanish Point and The Ringling; and lots more.

09/22/2016 By Ilene Denton

My New Hometown

Steel Sculptor Pamela Olin Moves to Sarasota

Pamela Olin goes to the dogs—the Southeastern Guide dogs, that is.

05/02/2016 By Ilene Denton

Giving

This Week's Good Deeds

All Faiths Food Bank recently kicked off its annual Campaign Against Summer Hunger, plus other great examples of locals giving back.

04/07/2016 Research by staff

Puppy Love

Oddity Tattoo's Travis Franklin Tapped to Paint Sarasota Magazine's Southeastern Guide Dogs Sculpture

Oddity Tattoo's Travis Franklin will paint Sarasota Magazine's sculpture for Southeastern Guide Dogs' "Superheroes on Parade" initiative.

03/21/2016 By Megan McDonald

Article

Dining in the Dark

A fun event for Southeastern Guide Dogs.

09/29/2015 By Hannah Wallace

Article

Pick the Name of Our Southeastern Guide Dog Puppy!

And the nominees are...

07/29/2015 By Sarasota Magazine

Article

Southeastern Guide Dogs: A New Breed of Superhero

A Palmetto nonprofit is now producing some of the best guide dogs on earth. Adam Davies sniffs out the story.

08/27/2014 By Adam Davies

Article

Charities Gain New Income Selling Products and Services

Seattle-based No Margin No Mission encourages charities to create products and services to make money; four Sarasota nonprofits took on the challenge.

08/26/2014 By Hannah Wallace

Article

Sarasota Nonprofits Share How They’d Use $25,000 to Help Veterans

We asked five nonprofits how they would use $25,000 to help veterans.

09/02/2013 By Griffin Guinta

Guiding Lights

Southeastern Guide Dogs Give Hope to the Blind

Almost every Southeastern Guide Dogs graduate has the same response when asked how having a guide dog has changed his or her life: These animals have set them free.

03/01/2009 By Megan McDonald