Since our founding by the Southwest Florida Estate Planning Council in 1979, the Community Foundation of Sarasota County has been making the important connection between individuals’ personal memories, passions and dreams, and the fulfillment of their charitable goals. By actively listening to the desires of our donors, we help create permanent charitable funds that ensure people of vision have an enduring impact on our community and the causes they hold dear. Our motto — “Be the One” — reflects our deeply-held belief that anyone can be a philanthropist and give back to our community, regardless of means. With assets of $417 million in more than 1,500 charitable funds, we have the expertise and ability to award millions of dollars in grants and scholarships to local students and nonprofits each year. Since our founding, more than $274 million has been invested back into the communities we serve throughout the region in the areas of education, health and human services, the arts, animal welfare, and the environment. Our support for local nonprofits branches out beyond grantmaking to include building upon their strength and capacity to ensure our donors’ charitable dollars create meaningful impact through our nonprofit resources, workshops and trainings, and volunteer consultants. Additionally, we connect with local professional advisors to provide highly personal and impact-orientated support, information, and expertise on planned giving and estate planning. It is this mosaic of donors, nonprofits, professional advisors, and community members that drives and empowers our mission to create lasting impact through charitable giving in our shared community. For more information, visit www.CFSarasota.org.

The REALTOR® Association of Sarasota and Manatee (RASM) is the largest real estate trade association in Sarasota and Manatee counties, serving over 9,000 members. RASM provides technology, training, networking and business support to members, and supports a healthy real estate market by upholding high professional and ethical standards through a Code of Ethics, ongoing education and certification programs. As the advocate for the real estate brokerage industry, RASM is the Voice for Real Estate® in the Sarasota/Manatee region. For more information, call (941) 952-3400 or visit www.myrasm.com.

The Aerospace Center for Excellence (ACE), a 501(c)(3) non-profit, has emerged as a nationally recognized leader in STEM-related and aerospace education through its various learning centers, outreach programs, scholarships, and summer camps aimed at engaging, educating and accelerating the next generation of aerospace professionals. ACE is the home of the SUN ‘n FUN Aerospace Expo, one of the largest aviation events in the world, the Florida Air Museum which is Florida’s official Aviation Museum and Education Center, and the Lakeland Aero Club which is the country’s largest high school flying club. ACE is the world’s leader in producing licensed teenage private pilots and delivers youth programs that engage over 50,000 students a year. For more information, www.ACEedu.aero.

We are an independent insurance agency and payroll provider dedicated to proactively managing, servicing, and differentiating ourselves to provide clients and new customers with a one stop full service agency. For our clients, employees, carrier relationships, vendor partnerships, and community we pledge to provide the highest standard of professionalism, knowledge, integrity, and ethics. We strive to provide competitive rates with the latest and most diverse portfolio of insurance products to tailor specific solutions for each client’s needs, objectives, and goals. We are passionate about what we do and proud to be a company that respects our employees and clients with the same standard of care.

ELC Manatee serves the public by providing eligibility and enrollment for families needing assistance with childcare or VPK. The Coalition also strives to improve the quality of early education through guidance for early childhood educators and brings many services directly into the community through our outreach programs.

Pelican Cove Resort and Marina an Islamorada hotel with the relaxed lifestyle of the Florida Keys makes it the perfect Florida Keys hotel to relax and enjoy life.

HEART RHYTHM CONSULTANTS, PA is a medical practice company based out of 3920 Bee Ridge Rd building E suite F Sarasota, FL Florida, United States. 389 commercial court ,suite D Venice FL Electrophysiologists, or EP doctor for short, are cardiologists who have additional education and training in the diagnosis and treatment of abnormal heart rhythms. Cardiac EPs could also be considered “heart electricians.” Cardiac health is an important factor, especially as we get older. Every lifestyle choice we make, at any age, plays a role in our overall cardiac condition. At Heart Rhythm Consultants, it is our goal to help our patients manage their condition, whether they suffer from arrhythmias or other irregularities with the heartbeat. Dr. Dilip J. Mathew, Dr Smriti Banthia and Dr. Rajesh Malik are electrophysiologists serving residents of Sarasota, Venice, Tampa, Port Charlotte and Sun City Center, giving every patient the care and attention they deserve.

We envision a future where the human and natural worlds of Southwest Florida flourish together. Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast works with you to save land, forever, preserving those special natural lands that shape our cultural heritage, make our region extraordinary, and our quality of life superb. We partner with landowners, businesses, and government to preserve the environmental excellence of our lands and waters in Manatee, Sarasota, Charlotte, Lee, and Collier Counties. By saving land forever, we protect wild places for kids and grown-ups, for wildlife and waterways. And we can't do it without you. Together, we protect those places that make a difference in our lives – giving us clean water to drink, protected habitat for plants and animals, beautiful natural places to enjoy, great spots to hike and fish, a world class shoreline, and a reason to live, work and play here on Florida’s Gulf Coast.

Parker Street Ministries is committed to Gospel-centered, holistic transformation of impoverished neighborhoods beginning in Lakeland, Florida's Parker Street neighborhood. Volunteers and staff impact lives through stabilizing activities in four core areas: lifetime learning, financial fitness, beautiful neighborhood and healthy community. Many staff and former staff live in the neighborhood in order to understand and address problems through relationships, listening, and shared experiences. We passionately believe our work is vital. Without our efforts and partnerships with other organizations, the crime characteristic of under-served neighborhoods proliferates, significant education and income gaps develop, substandard housing continues, and the effects of isolation, with its corresponding hopelessness and depression, remain unaddressed. We serve an impoverished, high crime area with 650 addresses. Replication is part of our mission so that as successful programs develop, the intention is to help other agencies repeat them in similar areas. We are excited to already be sharing practices with other ministries in the southeast. Because of decades of brokenness, meaningful change will be a generational process. Our work is slow and plodding, but even in the short term, our strategies move us forward. We desire to see neighbors who are: -influential lifetime learners who reach their full potential; -living in a mixed-income neighborhood containing exceptional businesses and housing; -financially healthy stewards and generous through dependence on God; and -pursuing healthy community as all people are created in God’s image.

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CHARLOTTE COUNTY is a nonprofit organization management company based out of 21450 GIBRALTER DRIVE #10, PORT CHARLOTTE, Florida, United States.

Talbot House is Lakeland's most comprehensive provider of services for homeless men and women. Through food, shelter, free medical and dental care, residential recovery programs, employment training and placement, and affordable housing opportunities, we restore hope and empower homeless men and women in Polk County to achieve self-sufficiency. We believe every life matters, and we offer hope and help, one person at a time.

The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee continues to meet the challenges of modern Jewish life and provide the necessary financial resources needed to fund our myriad services, programs and activities in order to sustain and grow the Jewish community in Sarasota-Manatee. Our mission is: To save Jewish lives and enhance Jewish life in Sarasota-Manatee, in Israel and around the world. We work to advance this mission by: • Meeting the human needs of the local Jewish community and of fellow Jews world-wide. • Promoting a positive Jewish identity. • Supporting Israel. • Involving and building community among the Jews of Sarasota-Manatee. • Strengthening ties between the local Jewish community and the broader society in which it exists. Our vision is: A vibrant Jewish community. In these economically challenging and uncertain times, the Federation is proud to be a financially responsible organization that has no debt, a healthy balance sheet, and generous donors who are committed to supporting our Jewish communities locally, nationally and globally.