Grants Awarded in 2006 Grant Cycle

           

Organization

 

Amount

Purpose

Boys and Girls Clubs of Sarasota Count

$

70,000

Fund year two of the Culinary Arts program for $40,000 and year three for $30,000

 

 

 

 

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

$

5,000

Sponsor “Great Strides” 2007

 

 

 

 

Florida Studio Theatre

$

50,000

Write-A-Play program continuation for the 2007/2008 academic year

 

 

 

 

Habitat for Humanity Sarasota

$

50,000

Help fund the renovation of apartments on Royal Palm Drive

 

 

 

 

Police Athletic League of Sarasota County

$

50,000

Help fund renovation of Sailor Circus performing area.  Payable $15,000 December 2007, $25,000 December 2008

 

 

 

 

Ringling School of Art and Design

$

500,000

Support the design and construction costs to renovate and restore Sarasota High School into the Visual Arts Education Center.  Payable $250,000 December 2008 and $250,000 December 2009

 

 

 

 

Ringling School of Art Library Association

$

30,000

Sponsor the 2008 Town Hall tonight series

 

 

 

 

Sarasota Family YMCA

$

300,000

Fund multi-year project to develop Operation Graduation for Newtown youth.  Payable $150,000 December 2006, $100,000 December 2007 and $50,000 December 2009

 

 

 

 

Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation

$

1,000,000

Purchase an intravascular cardiac catheterization electrophysiology system.  Payable $300,000 December 2006, $250,000 December 2007 and 2008, $200,000 December 2009

 

 

 

 

Sarasota Opera Association

$

100,000

Capital Campaign “Building on the Vision” to support planning, development, and construction costs for essential improvements.  Payable $50,000 December 2006 and $50,000 December 2007.  Naming of Center Orchestra Box.

 

 

 

 

Senior Friendship Center

$

35,000

Purchase and decorate 50 benches to be placed by SCAT at bus stops throughout the county.

 

 

 

 

Grants Awarded in 2005 Grant Cycle

 

Organization

 

Amount

Purpose

American Red Cross, Southwest Chapter

$

50,000

National Disaster Relief Funding

 

 

 

 

Boys and Girls Clubs of Sarasota County

$

69,957

Fully fund first year of a 3-year Culinary Arts program for 120 teenagers at the Fruitville site

 

 

 

 

Child Protection Center, Inc.

$

30,000

Fund Sexual Abuse Program

 

 

 

 

Children First

$

38.685

To purchase new school bus for field trips, medical appointments, pick-up of donated items

 

 

 

 

Children's Haven and Adult Community Services

$

15,000

Support Kaleidoscope Touring Company including coordinator position and transportation for the actors

 

 

 

 

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

$

10,000

Sponsor "Great Strides" the 2006

 

 

 

 

First Step of Sarasota

$

50,000

Renovate exiting Detox facility to increase bed capacity and convert to a locked facility

 

 

 

 

Florida Studio Theatre

$

100,000

Expand Write-A-Play program to Title I students in Sarasota and Manatee counties and provide scholarships for youth education sessions for the 2004/2005 season

 

 

 

 

Forty Carrots of Sarasota

$

10,000

Parenting Program "On Wheels: Target North Sarasota County project" at North County Library for additional year

 

 

 

 

Habitat for Humanity Sarasota

$

105,000

Sponsor two homes to be constructed for Phase III/IV of Jordan's Crossing [$100,000] and youth building and tools [$5,000]

 

 

 

 

Literacy Council of Sarasota

$

10,000

Replenish outdated and/or damaged tutor resource and instructional materials; printing and office supplies; administrative support and project costs

 

 

 

 

Mana-Sota Lighthouse for the Blind

$

14,860

Purchase computer hardware to provide backup and support system

 

 

 

 

Pines of Sarasota Foundation

$

250,000

Help fund construction of new 122-bed skilled nursing facility with naming recognition at the Main Entrance of Skilled Nursing Center

 

 

 

 

Resurrection House

$

24,000

Purchase new 7-passenger van

 

 

 

 

Ringling School of Art & Design

$

7,500

Sponsor the 2006 Best of Ringling: Annual Student Competition

 

 

 

 

Ringling School of Art Library Association

$

20,000

Sponsor the 2007 Town Hall tonight series

 

 

 

 

Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center

$

25,000

Purchase and remodel building adjacent to existing center and connect the two buildings

 

 

 

 

Sarasota Season of Sculpture

$

25,000

To be lead sponsor of the International Sculpture Symposium in February 2006 with naming recognition for exhibit

 

 

 

 

Sarasota Pops Orchestra

$

10,000

Offset venue costs, guest artists, and to purchase original musical scores for February 18, 2006 and April 1, 2006 concerts at Van Wezel with sponsorship recognition

 

 

 

 

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens

$

56,600

Fund design, fabrication, and installation of interpretive graphics and teaching carts throughout Gardens campus.  Naming recognition on carts.

 

 

 

 

University of South Florida Foundation

$

250,000

Capital enhancement of the Crosley Campus Center.  Naming opportunity for the Lecture/Exhibition Hall Pavilion

 

 

 

 

             Total Grants

$

1,171,602

 

Grants Awarded in 2004 Grant Cycle

 

Organization

 

Amount

Purpose

American Red Cross, Southwest Chapter

$

55,000

Response Support Trailer and Cargo Van to pull the trailer to support field disaster operations

 

 

 

 

American Red Cross, Southwest Chapter

$

25,000

National Disaster Relief Fund in connection with Hurricane Charley Relief in Charlotte, DeSoto and Hardee counties

 

 

 

 

Big Brothers Big sisters of the Sun Coast, Inc.

$

10,000

Purchase computer back up and support systems

 

 

 

 

Children's Haven and Adult Community Center

$

10,000

Partially fund ongoing Early Intervention, Education and Educational Therapeutic services to Selby Preschool children birth to three

 

 

 

 

Circus Sarasota

$

20,000

To hire world-class artists for the 2005 winter season, "Live the Dream"

 

 

 

 

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

$

10,000

Sponsor the 2005 Annual Fundraising Event

 

 

 

 

Florida Studio Theatre

$

220,000

Expand Write-A-Play program to Title I students in Sarasota and Manatee counties and provide scholarships for youth education sessions
$100,000 for the 2004/2005 season
$120,000 for the 2005/2006 season

 

 

 

 

Forty Carrots of Sarasota

$

10,000

Parenting Program "On Wheels: Target North Sarasota County project" at North County Library

 

 

 

 

Foundation for Dreams

$

6,000

Provide 10 weekend camping scholarships at $600 each to special needs children residing in Sarasota County

 

 

 

 

G.WIZ

$

26,501

Purchase conference tables and chairs and other equipment and furnishing to make the facility usable as a rental site for community-based adult education programs

 

 

 

 

Girl Scouts of Gulfcoast Florida

$

150,000

Capital Campaign "For Her Future" for new Sarasota Campus with naming recognition for the Performing Arts Stage
$50,000 for 3 years

 

 

 

 

Girls Incorporated of Sarasota County

$

46,689

Purchase desktop computers, computer tables, other furniture and equipment

 

 

 

 

Gulf Coast Heritage Association

$

25,000

Underwrite rehabilitation work to the Palmer Gardens at Historic Spanish Point

 

 

 

 

Habitat for Humanity

$

3,000

Provide tee shirts for Youth Building Program at Jordan's Crossing

 

 

 

 

Habitat for Humanity

$

100,000

Construction of two houses in Jordan's Crossing

 

 

 

 

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens

$

35,650

Support educational exhibit of Margaret Mee paintings from Kew Gardens London, January 8-April 3, 2005

 

 

 

 

Mote Marine Laboratory

$

75,000

Partially fund the construction of a shark exhibit in the aquarium

 

 

 

 

National Parkinson Foundation

$

5,000

Partially fund addition of a Speech and Language Therapy component to Sarasota Surf N' Turf support group program

 

 

 

 

New College Library Association

$

14,160

Children's author fees and expenses and special programs for the 2004 and 2005 Sarasota Reading Festival

 

 

 

 

The Players

$

38,700

Partially fund "The Legend of Yin and Yang" ballet and opera

 

 

 

 

Resurrection House

$

1,250

Sponsor the 2005 "Evening to Remember"

 

 

 

 

Ringling School of Art & Design

$

7,000

Sponsor the 2005 Best of Ringling: Annual Student Competition

 

 

 

 

Ringling School of Art & Design

$

10,000

Sponsor the 2006 Town Hall tonight series

 

 

 

 

Ringling School of Art & Design

$

4,000

Sponsor the 2005 Town Hall tonight series

 

 

 

 

Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center

$

20,000

Add two transitional housing apartments for one year for victims of domestic violence

 

 

 

 

Sarasota Ballet of Florida

$