Grants
Awarded in 2006 Grant Cycle
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Organization |
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Amount |
Purpose |
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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 |
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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation |
$ |
5,000 |
Sponsor “Great Strides”
2007 |
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Florida Studio Theatre |
$ |
50,000 |
Write-A-Play program continuation for the
2007/2008 academic year |
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Habitat for Humanity |
$ |
50,000 |
Help fund the
renovation of apartments on |
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Police Athletic League of |
$ |
50,000 |
Help fund renovation of
Sailor Circus performing area. Payable
$15,000 December 2007, $25,000 December 2008 |
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$ |
500,000 |
Support
the design and construction costs to renovate and restore |
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Ringling |
$ |
30,000 |
Sponsor the 2008 Town
Hall tonight series |
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$ |
300,000 |
Fund multi-year project to
develop Operation Graduation for |
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$ |
1,000,000 |
Purchase an intravascular cardiac catheterization electrophysiology
system. Payable $300,000 December
2006, $250,000 December 2007 and 2008, $200,000 December 2009 |
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$ |
100,000 |
Capital Campaign “Building on the Vision” to support planning,
development, and construction costs for essential improvements. Payable $50,000 December 2006 and $50,000
December 2007. Naming of Center
Orchestra Box. |
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$ |
35,000 |
Purchase and decorate 50 benches to be placed by SCAT at bus stops
throughout the county. |
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Grants
Awarded in 2005 Grant Cycle
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Organization |
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Amount |
Purpose |
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American Red Cross, Southwest Chapter |
$ |
50,000 |
National Disaster Relief Funding |
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Boys and Girls Clubs of |
$ |
69,957 |
Fully fund first year of a 3-year Culinary Arts program for 120 teenagers at the Fruitville site |
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Child Protection Center, Inc. |
$ |
30,000 |
Fund Sexual Abuse Program |
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Children First |
$ |
38.685 |
To purchase new school bus for field trips, medical appointments, pick-up of donated items |
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Children's Haven and Adult Community Services |
$ |
15,000 |
Support Kaleidoscope Touring Company including coordinator position and transportation for the actors |
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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation |
$ |
10,000 |
Sponsor "Great Strides" the 2006 |
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First Step of |
$ |
50,000 |
Renovate exiting Detox facility to increase bed capacity and convert to a locked facility |
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Florida Studio Theatre |
$ |
100,000 |
Expand Write-A-Play program
to Title I students in |
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Forty Carrots of |
$ |
10,000 |
Parenting Program "On Wheels: |
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Habitat for Humanity |
$ |
105,000 |
Sponsor two homes to be constructed for Phase III/IV of |
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Literacy Council of |
$ |
10,000 |
Replenish outdated and/or damaged tutor resource and instructional materials; printing and office supplies; administrative support and project costs |
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Mana-Sota Lighthouse for the Blind |
$ |
14,860 |
Purchase computer hardware to provide backup and support system |
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Pines of |
$ |
250,000 |
Help fund construction of new 122-bed skilled nursing facility with naming recognition at the Main Entrance of Skilled Nursing Center |
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Resurrection House |
$ |
24,000 |
Purchase new 7-passenger van |
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$ |
7,500 |
Sponsor the 2006 Best of Ringling: Annual Student Competition |
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Ringling |
$ |
20,000 |
Sponsor the 2007 Town Hall tonight series |
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Safe Place and |
$ |
25,000 |
Purchase and remodel building adjacent to existing center and connect the two buildings |
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$ |
25,000 |
To be lead sponsor of the International Sculpture Symposium in February 2006 with naming recognition for exhibit |
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$ |
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 |
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Marie Selby Botanical Gardens |
$ |
56,600 |
Fund design, fabrication, and installation of interpretive graphics and teaching carts throughout Gardens campus. Naming recognition on carts. |
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$ |
250,000 |
Capital enhancement of the |
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Total Grants |
$ |
1,171,602 |
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Grants
Awarded in 2004 Grant Cycle
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Organization |
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Amount |
Purpose |
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American Red Cross, Southwest Chapter |
$ |
55,000 |
Response Support Trailer and Cargo Van to pull the trailer to support field disaster operations |
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American Red Cross, Southwest Chapter |
$ |
25,000 |
National Disaster Relief Fund in connection with Hurricane Charley Relief in Charlotte, DeSoto and Hardee counties |
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Big Brothers Big sisters of the Sun Coast, Inc. |
$ |
10,000 |
Purchase computer back up and support systems |
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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 |
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Circus Sarasota |
$ |
20,000 |
To hire world-class artists for the 2005 winter season, "Live the Dream" |
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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation |
$ |
10,000 |
Sponsor the 2005 Annual Fundraising Event |
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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 |
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Forty Carrots of Sarasota |
$ |
10,000 |
Parenting Program "On Wheels: Target North Sarasota County project" at North County Library |
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Foundation for Dreams |
$ |
6,000 |
Provide 10 weekend camping scholarships at $600 each to special needs children residing in Sarasota County |
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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 |
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Girl Scouts of Gulfcoast Florida |
$ |
150,000 |
Capital Campaign "For Her Future" for new Sarasota Campus
with naming recognition for the Performing Arts Stage |
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Girls Incorporated of Sarasota County |
$ |
46,689 |
Purchase desktop computers, computer tables, other furniture and equipment |
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Gulf Coast Heritage Association |
$ |
25,000 |
Underwrite rehabilitation work to the Palmer Gardens at Historic Spanish Point |
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Habitat for Humanity |
$ |
3,000 |
Provide tee shirts for Youth Building Program at Jordan's Crossing |
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Habitat for Humanity |
$ |
100,000 |
Construction of two houses in Jordan's Crossing |
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Marie Selby Botanical Gardens |
$ |
35,650 |
Support educational exhibit of Margaret Mee paintings from Kew Gardens London, January 8-April 3, 2005 |
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Mote Marine Laboratory |
$ |
75,000 |
Partially fund the construction of a shark exhibit in the aquarium |
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National Parkinson Foundation |
$ |
5,000 |
Partially fund addition of a Speech and Language Therapy component to Sarasota Surf N' Turf support group program |
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New College Library Association |
$ |
14,160 |
Children's author fees and expenses and special programs for the 2004 and 2005 Sarasota Reading Festival |
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The Players |
$ |
38,700 |
Partially fund "The Legend of Yin and Yang" ballet and opera |
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Resurrection House |
$ |
1,250 |
Sponsor the 2005 "Evening to Remember" |
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Ringling School of Art & Design |
$ |
7,000 |
Sponsor the 2005 Best of Ringling: Annual Student Competition |
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Ringling School of Art & Design |
$ |
10,000 |
Sponsor the 2006 Town Hall tonight series |
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Ringling School of Art & Design |
$ |
4,000 |
Sponsor the 2005 Town Hall tonight series |
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Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center |
$ |
20,000 |
Add two transitional housing apartments for one year for victims of domestic violence |
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Sarasota Ballet of Florida |
$ |
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