This spring was a feast for the senses for so many Sarasota County students. From watching a live opera by the MET to the sweet sounds of the Sarasota Orchestra, these experiences are connecting with kids in many ways. Sarasota … Continue reading
Michael Dossett, private sector program manager for the Kentucky Division of Emergency Management, shared the complex issues facing businesses in disasters at the 2012 State of Florida Public Sector-Private Sector Disaster Preparedness Summit. Many of his lessons learned were based on … Continue reading
Writing a weekly blog has its ups and downs. The downs include at times struggling to find inspiring content and dealing with the sometimes-empty comment areas. Sitting at my desk mulling over what to write about this week, I decided … Continue reading
When The Patterson Foundation partners with another entity, it’s a win-win for everyone who will be “playing in the sandbox” and beyond! A great example of this is the collaborative Season of Sharing (SoS) campaign. Think of who is at … Continue reading
I am attending the 2012 State of Florida Public Sector-Private Sector Disaster Preparedness Summit. This is a conference long overdue and critical for any community’s preparedness for a disaster. As I prepare, I reflect on the two faces of the … Continue reading
In my last blog, I asked readers to share their knowledge about who is doing cool stuff to build the appetite of nonprofit leaders for collaboration models. Reader Christa Mannario advanced her opinion, saying that for change to occur it … Continue reading
What value do journalists bring to the news? Boiled down, that’s the question that newspapers, independent news publishers, journalism schools and individual reporters have been contemplating for the last decade. Exactly what is it the news consumers have been paying … Continue reading
SCOPE has spent the past few months sharing the results from the Aging with Dignity & Independence research with just about anybody willing to listen and think about this. Elected officials, chambers of commerce, nonprofit service providers, business associations, and … Continue reading
Each one of us has 86,400 seconds per day to live, work, love, play and/or fritter away.Indeed time is the nonrenewable resource. Threaded through the last weeks, I have reached out to colleagues in the foundation sector to be sure … Continue reading
Leslye Louie is the poster child for a Boomer retiree. After a long and successful career with Hewlett-Packard, the talented and vibrant Louie found herself outside of the corporate world and wondering, “what’s next”? Louie says she wandered for a … Continue reading