Community Impact
Community Care
Community Care
Caring for our community means being a resource during challenging times. We invest in emergency needs, disaster relief and recovery, programs that provide and sustain stability, food security and quality healthcare, our environment, and animal welfare, so that those who live here can enjoy a high quality of life.
Empowerment & Success
Empowerment & Success
A fulfilling life comes from support, encouragement, wisdom, and experience that guide us to our dreams. We invest in literacy support, student enrichment, scholarships & mentoring, career development & advancement, and opporutnities to create lifelong connections so that everyone can be empowered to realize their potential.
Belonging and Culture
Belonging and Culture
To have a place or group where you belong inspires passion and creativity. By supporting organizations whose work Bridge Generations and Unites the Community around Cultural Development & the Arts, we are here to help build the community we all want to live in.
Stories of Impact
'Thank God for Season of Sharing': High Costs Hit Sarasota Families
While the Sarasota area has passed another fall free of hurricanes so far, residents are facing a different type of storm. This month, as Season of Sharing launches its annual fundraising camp…
Community Foundation Continues Strategic Support for Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe
Last year, Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe (WBTT) was awarded a three-year Strategic Partnership grant totaling $150,000 from the Community Foundation of Sarasota County (Community Foundation).…
JoshProvides Receives Grant to Expand Epilepsy Care Services
A grant of $10,000 awarded by the Community Foundation of Sarasota County will assist JoshProvides Epilepsy Assistance Foundation in the funding of transportation to diagnostic testing and out…
November 9, 2026
The Service We Honor and the Support We Owe
While my grandfather was serving overseas in the Navy, he would write home to my grandmother, scribbling down his thoughts, sealing them up in an envelope, and shipping them home, halfway arou…