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Celebrating a Community Hero: Honoring Vevie Dimmitt
Community Foundation Tampa Bay is proud to celebrate fundholder Genevieve Lykes Dimmitt, or Vevie as we know her, for being named a Tampa Bay Lightning Foundation Community Hero. This honor recognizes individuals whose service has made a meaningful and lasting difference, and few embody that spirit more fully than Vevie.
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Legacy giving: A simple plan to get started
You and your team no doubt understand how transformational bequests and legacy gifts can be for your organization. In 2024, total charitable giving in the United States reached $592.5 billion, according to the Giving USA 2025 report.
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Resilient Roots: A Competitive Grant Investment in Environmental Resilience
Community Foundation Tampa Bay is proud to support Keep Pinellas Beautiful as they work to restore natural habitats and strengthen storm resilience across our region. Their project, Resilient Roots, was selected to receive funding through our Competitive Grants cycle because it addresses a clear and timely community need: rebuilding the tree canopy lost during the 2024 hurricane season.
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Competitive Grant Awards: Physical Health and Mental Wellbeing
This year, we proudly awarded more than $710,904 across three targeted subcategories within Physical Health and Mental Wellbeing.
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Community Foundation Tampa Bay Awards Over $2.2 Million Through Competitive Grants
Community Foundation Tampa Bay is pleased to announce the recipients of our FY2025 Competitive Grants.
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Standing Out in a Competitive Field: What to Know Before You Apply for Community Foundation Tampa Bay’s Competitive Grants
Each year, Community Foundation Tampa Bay is fortunate to receive hundreds of grant applications from nonprofit organizations that are making a real difference in our region.
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Rising to the Challenge: How C.A.R.E. Animal Shelter and a Generous Fundholder Created a Transformative Opportunity
When generosity meets determination, incredible things happen.
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PCAT Literacy Ministries: Supporting Students and Families Through Hurricane Recovery
When Hurricanes Helene and Milton swept through Tampa Bay, they left behind more than damaged buildings and flooded streets—they uprooted lives.
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Your Charitable Planning Cheat Sheet
At Community Foundation Tampa Bay, we’ve recently been asked by attorneys, CPAs, and financial advisors for “cheat sheet” resources to make it easy to determine which type of charitable planning tool is best for a particular client.
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Match Opportunities at Community Foundation Tampa Bay: 4 Ways to Amplify Your Impact
At Community Foundation Tampa Bay, we are dedicated to maximizing the impact of philanthropic giving through a variety of matching opportunities.
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Hurricanes & Mental Health: Helping Nonprofits Make a Lasting Impact
When hurricanes strike, the physical toll is obvious—damaged homes, disrupted lives, and communities left to rebuild.
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Rebuilding Futures: Supporting Children and Schools Though Hurricane Recovery
In the aftermath of hurricanes like Helene and Milton, our community’s K-12 children face enormous challenges.
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Generous Donors Drive Hurricane Recovery Efforts
To amplify and inspire giving during these challenging times, donations to the Tampa Bay Rapid Response Fund will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to $250,000.*
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Restoring Hope at Mary & Martha House After Hurricane Helene
When Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton struck, their devastation was felt throughout South Hillsborough County.
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Resources for those affected by Hurricanes Helene and Milton
Local, state and federal resources – both government and nonprofit – have mobilized to help with the immediate, emergency needs of those who affected by Hurricanes Helene and Milton.
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Community Foundation Tampa Bay commits $1.2M to hurricane relief
The Community Foundation Tampa Bay is committing $1.2M to ongoing hurricane relief and recovery efforts.
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BEST supports academic success while increasing diversity in medical field
Friday, June 28 marked a milestone for Brain Expansion Scholastic Training (BEST).
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant aids hurricane recovery & increases disaster preparedness
The Community Foundation Tampa Bay has received a $300,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which is committed to improving health and health equity in the United States.
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Join Us for Competitive Grant Information Sessions
Please join the Community Foundation Tampa Bay and members of our Regional Councils as we share the details of our annual competitive grants process and ways in which we work with your organizations.
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Help in the aftermath of Hurricane Idalia
Now that the devastating storm has passed, our communities in Citrus, Hernando, Pasco, Pinellas and Hillsborough counties and our neighbors to the north face the long task of recovery.
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Walter C. Jaap Scholarship Award
On Thursday, July 27, University of South Florida College of Marine Science student Sarah Sullivan became the second recipient of the annual Walter C. Jaap Memorial Scholarship, during a presentation at the Marine Sciences Laboratory.
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Community Foundation Tampa Bay awards ten grants designed to empower women and girls
The Community Foundation Tampa Bay has awarded $204,720 in funding to ten nonprofits for projects designed to empower women and girls. In addition, two of the organizations received multi-year opportunities totaling $140,000 in additional investments.
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Needa Spells
Your legacy gift through the Community Foundation Tampa Bay ensures that your values and passions live on.
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Harold Corrigan
Your legacy gift through the Community Foundation Tampa Bay ensures that your values and passions live on.
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David Baldwin
Your legacy gift through the Community Foundation Tampa Bay ensures that your values and passions live on.
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Barbara Ann Cole
Your legacy gift through the Community Foundation Tampa Bay ensures that your values and passions live on.
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