2022-2025 Community Investments in Early Learning, Youth Success and Financial Stability: Uplifting ALICE Families

Investment Overview

United Way Suncoast has committed $18 million to support 100 programs across our five county region from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025. Our investment in these partners supports our strategic plan initiatives ensuring quality early learning for children, foundational futures for youth and long term financial stability for families.

The kind of community challenges that UWS and our partners are tackling aren’t solved in one-year increments. Funding programs over three years provides stability to our partners and allowing them to focus on doing the work, not writing new grant applications. Our multiyear partnership will also create opportunities for stronger data collection and measurable collective impact.

Our investments multiply the impact of every dollar given to United Way Suncoast by convening together like-minded leaders as well as creating opportunities for technical assistance and collaboration beyond the value of the check provided. Our investments support programs but also fuel relationships, allowing us to impact individual lives as well as influence conditions for community level change.

With over $50 million worth of requests received from nonprofits across the region, the need remains great. Read below to learn more about our community investments, and click here to support more efforts benefiting ALICE Families. 

 

Strategic Community Partnerships

Below is a list of our multiyear community investment partners in each of the five counties we serve. Our investments in Hillsborough/Pinellas cover Early Learning, Financial Stability and Youth Success; in Sarasota/DeSoto, Early Learning and Financial Stability; and in Manatee, we focus on Early Learning.

For more detail you can download a list of our partnerships by impact area here, or by county of focus here.

Hillsborough and Pinellas

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay, Inc.
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Suncoast
Champions for Children
Children’s Home Network
Family Studies Center – University of South Florida
Frameworks of Tampa Bay, Inc
Healthy Start Coalition of Pinellas County, Inc.
Learning Empowered, Inc.
Lions Eye Insitute for Transplant & Research Foundation, Inc
Lutheran Services Florida
Metropolitan Ministries
Pinellas County Education Foundation, Inc
Preserve Vision Florida
R’Club Child Care, Inc.
REACH Services Inc
Redlands Christian Migrant Association, Inc. (RCMA)
Seniors in Service of Tampa Bay, Inc.
Sunrise Children’s Services, Inc
Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA, Inc.
The Shirley Proctor Puller Foundatoin
United Food Bank and Services of Plant City
YMCA of the Suncoast, Inc.
AMSKILLS INC
Bay Area Legal Services, Inc.
Brookwood Florida, Inc.
Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa, Inc
Dawning Family Services (Alpha House of Tampa)
Daystar Life Center, Inc.
Dress for Success Tampa Bay Inc
ECHO
Enterprising Latinas, Inc.
Feeding Tampa Bay
Florida Dream Center
Gulf Coast Jewish Family & Community Services

 

Gulfcoast Legal Services
Habitat for Humanity of Hillsborough County
Hispanic Services Council, Inc.
Homeless Empowerment Program
Homeless Leadership Alliance of Pinellas
MacDonald Training Center
People Empowering and Restoring Communities (PERC-Pinellas Ex Offender Reentry Coalition)
Pinellas County Urban League
Project Prosper, Inc
Rebuilding Together Tampa Bay
Hope Villages of America (RCS, Inc.)
St Petersburg Free Clinic
Suncoast Voices for Children Foundation, Inc
CareerSource Tampa Bay
Tampa Housing Authority
University Area Community Development Center
Academy Prep Foundation, Inc
Artz 4 Life Academy
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay, Inc.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Tampa Bay
Eckerd College
Florida Education Fund, Inc.
Friends of the Children – Tampa Bay
Gentlemen’s Quest of Tampa, Inc.
Girl Scouts of West Central Florida
Girls Empowered Mentally for Success, Inc. (GEMS)
Golden Generations, Inc.
Hillsborough Education Foundation
Pace Center for Girls Hillsborough
Pinellas Opportunity Council
Starting Right, Now
The SPARK Initiative
The Skills Center

Manatee

Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Sun Coast, Inc.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Manatee County
Children’s Home Society of Florida, Suncoast Region
Educational Consultants Consortium, Inc.
Feeding Tampa Bay
Myakka City Community Center
Palmetto Youth Center
Parenting Matters
Step Up Suncoast, Inc.
The D. L. Randall Foundation, Inc.
United Community Centers, INC

Sarasota DeSoto

All Faiths Food Bank
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Sun Coast, Inc.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Sarasota and DeSoto Counties
Children First
Dreamers Academy, Inc
Goodwill Industries-Manasota, Inc.
Gulfcoast Legal Services
Harvest House (Harvest Tabernacle of Sarasota, Inc.)
Jewish Family and Children’s Services of the Suncoast
Preserve Vision Florida
Redlands Christian Migrant Association, Inc. (RCMA)
SOAR Learning Center, Inc
The Florida Center for Early Childhood
Women’s Resource Center, Inc
YMCA of Southwest Florida Inc.

By the Numbers

 

Thank you for visiting our 2022-2025 Community Investments page.  The process is now closed and grantees will be announced in July. Please check back then. Thank you! – UWS Team

thumbnail of 2022 UWS Community Investment Guidelines FINALPlease use the 2022 UWS Community Investment Guidelines to prepare your application. This document provides an in depth overview of UWS and our funding process, and provides key information about what programs we are looking to support and how to complete your application successfully.

Questions or need assistance?  Email communityinvestments@uwsuncoast.org

2022-2025
Community Investments

Throughout the month of November, we hosted four virtual information sessions about our investment process and how to begin your application. Click the video to view a recorded session. See the instructions below.

Watch the Presentation Below

Instructions

Beginning on December 1, you may sign into the grant application portal. Existing partners with UWS should use current log in information; new applicants will be guided to create an agency profile. Once you’ve successfully logged in, you will be able to select the appropriate Letter of Intent process for your content and geographic focus areas.  ► Click HERE to begin the application.

thumbnail of 2022 UWS Community Investment Guidelines FINALPlease use the 2022 UWS Community Investment Guidelines to prepare your application. This document provides an in depth overview of UWS and our funding process, and provides key information about what programs we are looking to support and how to complete your application successfully.

The Letter of Intent process will close on December 15 at 5pm EST. Organizations will be notified by January 24 as to whether or not they have been invited to submit a full application. 

Click HERE to learn more about the ALICE population and why we invest in programs who serve ALICE families.

Questions or need assistance?  Email communityinvestments@uwsuncoast.org

Investment Framework

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CIP Slideshow

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Letter of Intent Questions

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RFP Questions

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Watch the video below to learn more about the ALICE population and why we invest in programs who serve ALICE families.

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