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25 YEARS, BETTER TOGETHER

 

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TWO IRREPLACEABLE HEROES

REMEMBERING CHARLES AND MARGERY BARANCIK

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TRANSFORMING MENTAL HEALTH CARE

A new study lays out recommendations to create a true system of care for our community's youth and their families.

 

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Together with our donors, we transform our region through bold and proactive philanthropy.

LATEST NEWS

Assuming the Best of Others, Expecting More of Ourselves

Gulf Coast's President|CEO Mark Pritchett's September 19 column in SRQ Daily is about three things: real leadership, common-sense solutions and believing in the potential of everyone.

Gulf Coast Community Foundation Awards Over $600,000 in Scholarships

As the fall semester begins at colleges across the country amid the uncertainty of COVID-19, hundreds of local students have at least one thing they can rely on: scholarship funding to help ease the challenges of an unprecedented return to school.

The Smithsonian Comes to Town

Gulf Coast helped bring Voices and Votes: Democracy in America, a Smithsonian Institution traveling, interactive exhibit to the Betty J. Johnson North Sarasota Public Library. This two-month exhibition is truly nonpartisan and tells the history of voting and democracy from our Founding Fathers to the infamous Florida 2000 election to protests you see today. Gulf Coast's President|CEO delves deeper into the exhibits timeliness and importance in his August 15 column in SRQ Daily.
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COVID-19 LAUNCH

Gulf Coast, Barancik Foundation Launch COVID-19 Response Initiative 

Gulf Coast Community Foundation and Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation have introduced a philanthropic initiative to fortify key health and safety organizations in the region amid the growing COVID-19 crisis.The foundations announced their joint effort on Saturday with total commitments so far of $1.5 million to support the initiative. They positioned the funding as a challenge to Gulf Coast donors and other philanthropists in the community to match that amount.

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