To help our community recover from Hurricanes Helene and Milton through Season of Sharing and the Suncoast Disaster Recovery Fund, click here

August 7, 2023

Propel to Excel

For more than a dozen years now, I’ve called Sarasota County home. While I may have lived a longer span of time elsewhere, I feel at home here because of both my love for the location, a…

December 28, 2021

Sarasota residents will soon have a quality of life digital dashboard

Using massive amounts of anonymous public data, New College's Applied Data Science students are working with Community Foundation of Sarasota County to build a tool to help decision-makers fin…

October 25, 2021

New College of Florida and the Community Foundation of Sarasota County Partner on Data-Based Initiatives

SARASOTA, FL – A new data-centric initiative has been established between New College of Florida and the Community Foundation of Sarasota County to share community trends and enhance the…

June 29, 2021

A Marathon, not a Sprint

The words diversity, equity, and inclusion have the power to emit a range of emotions. Context, personal background, and field of experience are all factors that influence the lens in which we…

May 1, 2021

Guiding with Solutions from the Head and Heart

Dear Friends: Last weekend I took a Florida road trip with my husband, Mike, to celebrate our 44th wedding anniversary. We took the back roads to Cape Canaveral to admire the feats accomplish…