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Until midnight tonight local organizations are working hard to raise money for worthy causes for Give Day Tampa Bay. Initiatives including developing affordable studios for local artists, creating a LitSpace for aspiring writers, providing educational materials to young students, free museum admission for large classes and free enrollment to Summer camps in the St. Pete area are on the board today. Local businesses are opening their doors as well to help push donations. In case you're wondering where to donate, we made a little list to simplify the process. Just follow the links below to donate and to learn more about the organizations listed.
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These organizations only represent a fraction of the worthy causes you can contribute to. For a full list of participating organizations follow this link.
Academy Prep Center of St. Pete
Academy Prep Center of St. Petersburg is a private, non-profit middle school for grades 5-8 serving students from low-income families. Our mission is to break the cycle of generational poverty in our community through a rigorous college preparatory education, enrichment activities, and 8 years of graduate support. Students attend Academy Prep 11 hours a day, 6 days a week, 11 months a year. Follow this link to read our article about the school, the services they provide young minds and their amazing robotics program.
The American Heart Association is helping to build healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke. Your donation will help keep the Tampa Bay area fit, happy and active.
American Stage Theatre Company
American Stage Theatre has contributed to the vitality of Tampa Bay as a non-profit professional theatre since 1977. With a $3 million annual economic impact, American Stage is a valued arts institution, employer and economic driver for our locale. Programming consists of a Mainstage 6 play series, American Stage in the Park, After Hours and Emerging Masters Play Reading Series and American Stage Education. Our social and educational impact in the community elevates the quality of life for Florida residents and visitors alike.
The St. Pete Arts Alliance is an advocate for the arts. They also facilitate the growth of the arts community and drive arts-related economic development in St. Pete.
Bill Edwards Foundation for the Arts
The Mahaffey Theater is committed to providing unparalleled entertainment, the Class Acts youth cultural arts education programs and the brightest stars of stage, screen and theater. When you make a commitment to support the Bill Edwards Foundation for the Arts, you join arts advocates who believe that creative expression, cultural engagement and educational opportunities are vital to our community. Your support and membership – through any of our opportunities – allows you to help fund all of these important initiatives and play a "starring role" in helping mold young minds and guaranteeing educational opportunities for all. Follow this link for more information about becoming a member. For interested business partners, follow this link.
You are on the front lines of Boys & Girls Club of Suncoast (BGCS) being successful with Give Day Tampa Bay. Our (very attainable) goal for the effort is just $2,000, our stretch goal is $5,000, but it would be great to blow both of those totals out of the water. They are raising money for the Jim Coats Scholarship Fund, which provides a Club membership to any kid who wants one regardless of means.
The Children's Dream Fund was founded in 1981 with the single purpose of fulfilling dreams for children ages 3-18 who have been diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. Over 82% of every dollar raised goes directly to fulfilling dreams for sick children.
CLP exists to empower the most vulnerable in the community through the provision of free legal representation and legal assistance, education about legal rights and responsibilities, and community outreach. They provide these services relying almost exclusively on the private attorneys in our community who donate their services free of charge to assist those in the community who otherwise could not afford to hire an attorney.
Creative Clay & CASA – EDGE District
Creative Clay's vision is to make the arts accessible for all. Creative Clay's mission is to provide expressive, educational and vocational opportunities in the arts for people with obstacles to arts access. CASA's mission is to raise voices against violence through advocacy, empowerment, and social change.
Since January 2009, the Edible Peace Patch Project has been developing an innovative, community oriented, sustainable farm-to-plate food and education system in south St. Pete.
Equality Florida Institute is the largest civil rights organization dedicated to securing full equality for Florida's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
Florida CraftArt is a statewide organization representing over 300 fine craft artists in Florida in their retail and exhibition galleries. The annual CraftArt Festival is held on the weekend before Thanksgiving with 120 national fine craft artists, craft beers, food trucks and art activities. Visit artists in the 18 art studios on the 2nd floor of the building which once was home to the historic Rutland Department store. Florida CraftArt's mission is to grow the statewide creative economy by engaging the community and advancing Florida's fine craft artists and their work.
Florida Holocaust Museum – The Seven Dollar Difference
The Florida Holocaust Museum, founded in 1989, works to provide education and teach the lessons of the Holocaust to students, visitors and community members, to use the lessons of the past to create a better future for all. In 1994, the Museum successfully sponsored legislation which mandated Holocaust education in public schools. The Museum provides free resources to schools throughout the country with its Teaching Trunks program.
Grand Central District Association
The Grand Central District Association is a 501c3 non-profit organization that works to support and promote the District’s economic development and revitalization in an effort to make it a retail, dining and entertainment destination for St. Petersburg visitors and residents.
Keep St. Pete Lit celebrates and promotes greater St. Petersburg’s literary community – past, present and future – through arts, education and events with a literary twist. The LitSpace project will provide aspiring writers the inspiration, instruction and tools to realize their full literary potential.
The Morean Arts Center connects people with art through innovative community-oriented art and arts education. The Morean Arts Center hosts the largest visual art camps in the area for young artists. Their week-long themed art camps focus on the exploration of art materials through hands-on guided and self-guided learning, interactive art play and skill development. The Morean Arts believes camp should be an educational experience, but most importantly FUN! The Morean Arts Center is pleased to offer Camp Scholarships for students to participate in our renowned art, clay and glass camp programs. Each scholarship provides access to one week of FUN per budding artist and is valued at $175. Scholarships are based on student interest, family income and need. Your contribution will help make it possible for a child to develop her or his artistic talents.
The purpose of the Museum of Fine Arts is to increase and diffuse knowledge and appreciation of art; to collect and preserve objects of artistic interest and merit; to protect works of art; to provide facilities for research; and to offer instruction and opportunities for aesthetic enjoyment of art for all. Founded by art collector and philanthropist Margaret Acheson Stuart and community leaders in 1965, the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) has brought world-class exhibitions, permanent collection, and outstanding educational programs that connect the community through art for a half century.
This charitable giving day will raise funds to help NOMAD continue their mission of getting art outreach programs into the diverse neighborhoods of the Tampa Bay area. Every $500 they receive on Give Day will allow them to provide a day of visual arts enrichment programming in an at-risk community. NOMAD's goal is 80 donors or $2,000. They will document all enrichment days and send updates so donors can see the impact their generosity makes.
Rescue Writing Children's Alliance
Help support your local schools! Rescue Writing is a social enterprise providing creative, interactive thematic storytelling tools with the goal of igniting the passion of writing in children. Help improve the community and assist us in reaching our goal of providing the 500+ schools in the Tampa Bay area with Rescue Writing storybooks! A Rescue Writing storybook is written by students in a classroom and works to cultivate their writing skills while meeting Common Core standards. Rescue Writing storybooks turn every student into a published author and are at the beginning of their life-long journey with written word. Support the development of children's writing by sponsoring a classroom for only $99 or donate any amount to Rescue Writing so students can write their own stories!
The Saturday Morning Market is a weekly outdoor market that brings fresh sustainably grown food to our community. We offer food programs that include SNAP/EBT, match for SNAP, Healthy Prescription program, and Taste Education giving cooking lessons and a chance to taste a new recipe each week.
Named as Tampa Bay Business Journal’s 2014 Nonprofit of the Year, Southeastern Guide Dogs is internationally accredited, and Charity Navigator’s highest rated guide dog school in the United States. Founded in 1982, the organization employs the latest in canine development and behavior research to create and nurture partnerships between visually impaired individuals and extraordinary guide dogs. Southeastern Guide Dogs serves more than 400 graduates across the U.S. and continues to place more than 100 dogs each year into careers benefitting people with visual impairments and veterans. The charity provides all of its services free of charge and receives no government funding.
The St. Petersburg Free Clinic provides for the unserved and underserved families and individuals who are in need of temporary assistance with basic needs such as food, shelter, medical care, limited financial assistance, and referral information.
St. Petersburg Museum of History
For nearly a century, the St. Petersburg Museum of History has been collecting, preserving and presenting Florida's history. Stroll through the Museum and explore the world's first commercial airline; the world's largest collection of autographed baseballs; a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy and the exploration and discovery of La Florida! The Museum's archives – open to the public – contain over 30,000 artifacts and 8,000 images of St. Petersburg, Tampa Bay and Florida from pre-Spanish arrival to the arrival of the Tampa Bay Rays!
Warehouse Arts District – ArtsXchange
The Warehouse Arts District is a membership organization with the goal of supporting artists and the arts community as a whole. Typically, artists get priced out of their workplaces after they have redeveloped a rundown, inexpensive area. The Warehouse Arts commnity is looking to remedy this issue by providing sustainable, affordable studios within a complex for 50+ working artists. In 2014, the Warehouse Arts District acquired property now named the ArtsXchange, a compound of six warehouse buildings with over 50,000 sq. ft. of space that will be renovated into affordable working studios, galleries, classrooms and performance spaces. This project will revitalize nearly three acres of blighted property in the heart of the Warehouse Arts District near Midtown.
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