Lori White is superintendent of Sarasota County Schools and Larry Thompson is president of Ringling College of Art and Design and chairman of the Arts and Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County. Both are advocates of arts integration and experiential learning. Here is … Continue reading
Editor’s Note: Michael Oxman and Larry Clark are co-founders of No Margin, No Mission™, a social enterprise and national consulting practice that helps organizations with a social or environmental mission increase revenue, expand impact, and build a lasting future … Continue reading
Michele McLellan has been one of our key partners in the New Media Journalism Initiative, working with us to create the Block by Block Community News Summit and the business mentoring efforts we have pioneered for independent publishers. In this … Continue reading
Michele McLellan has worked with the New Media Journalism Initiative on the Block by Block Community News Summit and the Super Camp business mentoring program for independent local news publishers. This guest post also appeared on the Knight Digital Media … Continue reading
This post was originally published on the Students with Diabetes blog. Nicole Johnson, MPH, MA, DrPH (student) is the executive director of Bringing Science Home, a partnership between USF Health and The Patterson Foundation, and Miss America 1999. Internships and … Continue reading
By Susan M. Scott, Executive Director, Education Foundation of Sarasota County The seeds planted in a child’s mind today can lead to an entirely new world of experience. Sarasota County offers a diversity of cultural experiences – art, music, theater … Continue reading
By Jeff Stanger, Director of the Center for Digital Information Wayne Gretzky famously said that a great hockey player skates to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been. These are instructive words for philanthropic foundations and … Continue reading
By: Angela Hartvigsen, Sarasota County Schools Four years ago, I never thought my job or the world I work in would be the way it is now. I was a music educator working in the middle orchestra classroom and my … Continue reading
By: Susie Bowie, Director of The Giving Partner When three community foundations and The Patterson Foundation intersect, unexpected things can happen. Some say the 36-Hour Giving Challenge on March 27 and 28, 2012 provided another revenue source for participating nonprofits in Southwest … Continue reading
By Yvette Robison, Manager, North Sarasota Library What began as a simple exhibit of student art at the North Sarasota Library quickly grew into something greater, as the Library staff invited school and community partners to join the celebration. Imagine … Continue reading