Children’s Board of Hillsborough County

Mission

The Children’s Board invests in partnerships and quality programs to support the success of all children and families in Hillsborough County. The Children’s Board of Hillsborough County provides grants to nonprofit organizations in the community.

Their funding levels fall into the following categories:

• Level (1) – INVESTMENT GRANTS A contract awarded to an organization that primarily provides universally accessible services throughout the county with a collaborative approach to service delivery that supports one or more strategic focus areas.
• (Level 2) - UNITING GRANTS A contract awarded to an organization that primarily serves a geographic area or offers accessible services countywide with a collaborative approach to service delivery that supports one or more strategic focus areas.
• (Level 3) - LEADING GRANT A contract awarded to organizations that primarily provides neighborhood-based services that support at least one strategic focus area to meet emerging needs or targets underserved populations.
• (Level 4) - TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE (TA) GRANTS One-time awards to organizations with a total budget of less than $2,000,000 to support efforts in the areas of capacity building.

Project Opiod Tampa Bay

Mission

Our efforts are intended to be collaborative, complementary, and constructive, bringing new energy, new conversations and, ultimately, more resources to this effort.

Project Opioid Tampa Bay is part of a statewide initiative funded by Florida Blue Foundation to drastically reduce the number of opioid related fatalities by bringing together business, faith, and philanthropic leaders in key markets throughout Florida. Project Opioid initiatives are being launched in Central Florida, Jacksonville, Miami-Dade County, Broward County, and Palm Beach County.

They seek to reduce opiod deaths by:

• Researching the regional impact of the opioid epidemic and identifying the types of treatment and resources available within the community.
• Strategies developing an actionable strategy to reduce opioid deaths in the Tampa Bay region.
• Educating and improving policies in the workplaces.
• Collaborating with those professionals who have long worked on the front lines in the battle to end this epidemic.
• Advocating for the funding and dissemination of best practices across our region.
• Dedicated to raising awareness of this crisis within our community.

West Florida National Association of Hispanic Nurses

Mission

The West Florida Chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses, provides an importnt voice for Hispanic nurses and those interested in the Hispanic community. Its members are active in various causes at the local, state and national level. They are committed to increasing educatuonal and professional opportunities for Hispanic nurses and nursing students through networking and mentoring. Its members are also instrumental in providing culturally competent health care for Hispanic consumers.

Reach-Up Head Start & Early Head Start

Mission

Reach-Up Head Start and Early Head Start provides comprehensive education and support services that strengthen young children and their families who are experiencing low income.

Programs

• Kindergarten Transition Services
• Birth-Three Early Head Start
• Full-Day Services
• Three-Five Head Start

One More Child

Mission

Our mission is to provide Christ-centered services to vulnerable children and struggling families.

Programs

• Foster Care
• Child Hunger: If children don’t have food then they can’t dream and if they can’t dream they can’t live the lives God desires for them
• Single Moms: We help provide the hope and possibility for a better future for families who hve experienced hardships
• Anti-Traficking: We have a team of compassionate experts who understnd the emotional, physical and spiritual condition of victims and vulnerble persons.
• Family Support

Central Florida Behavioral Health Netwrok, Inc.

Mission

Central Florida Behavioral Health Network: Managing a quality behavioral health system of care that brings help and hope to individuals, familieas and communities.

Programs

• Business Development & Marketing
• Information Management
• Consumer Family Affairs
• Network Deveopment & Clincal Services
• Finacial Management
• Quality Improvement

Wellcare

Mission

Offering Medicare benefits you deserve.

Program

Wellcare Medicare Advantage plans are affordable and provide coverage that goes beyond Original Medicare. Wellcare plans give you Part A and Part B coverage, plus much more.

Hope & Health Project

Mission

Hope and Health Project is dedicated to connect, collaborate, and partner with groups and organizations that help others in need in any part of the world. We are very concerned with the lack of medical, dental care, access to education, hygienic living conditions and safe shelter for residents in underdeveloped countries or places that have been devastated due to natural disasters.

Programs

• Bahamas Disaster Relief
• Project World Health USF
• Doctors for Puerto Rico

Assemblies of God

Mission

The Assemblies of God is committed to fulfilling a four-fold mission. Its primary reason for being is:

1. Evangelize the lost.
2. Worship God.
3. Disciple believers.
4. Show compassion.

Gary White Training & Consulting

About

Gary White Training & Consulting, LLC (GWTnC) is a nationally sought-after veteran- and minority-owned business leveraging over 20 years of leadership, healthcare, non-profit and public health practice experience to provide exceptional executive/leadership and workforce consulting, coaching, and training services. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has certified GWTnC as a veteran-owned small business. Gary’s training and experience includes organizational transformation, leadership development, trauma-informed environmental strategies, mental wellness skills facilitation (especially in High-Reliability Organizations – HROs), National Opioid Response Network and building community coalitions. In addition to serving as president of GWTnC Gary also serves as Chief, Leadership Performance Officer for Marathon Consulting Group, Inc. (GA), Prevention Consultant for the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (RI) and is a certified facilitator with the National Council for Behavioral Health. Gary’s formal Public Health educational experiences include Johns Hopkins University (Bloomberg School of Public Health), University of South Florida (College of Public Health – Executive Public Health Practice) and the University of Tampa (FL).

Gracepoint

Mission

Immediately responding to all people seeking to improve their lives by delivering integrated mental health, substance abuse and medical care to promote health and wellness.

Programs

• Adult & Child Crisis Stabilization
• Adult & Child Outpatient Counseling
• Affordable housing (over 350 apts.)
• Adult & Child Psychiatric Medication Clinics 
• Adult Outpatient
• Supportive Housing
• Forensic Inpatient Diversion
• Children’s Services
• Homeless Services

McCullagh & Scott General Contractors

About

Founded in January 1987, McCullagh & Scott, Inc. is a general contracting firm providing complete design/build services for a wide range of commercial facilities and developments. The owner and president Jim McCullagh has used his technical expertise combined with solid business administration to establish a construction firm whose principles are committed to provide professional services backed by integrity, trust and experience. The McCullagh & Scott team, with our years of commercial business experience, has assembled the highest quality professionals, craftsmen and suppliers .

Gresham Smith

About

Gresham Smith is a team of diligent designers, creative problem-solvers, insightful planners and seasoned collaborators who work closely with clients to improve the cities and towns we call home. Our employees are diverse in experience, yet we all have one thing in common: genuine care for each other, our partners and the outcome of our work. From roadways and pathways that connect people and places, to hospitals that promote well-being and recovery, to corporate campuses that encourage productivity and teamwork, we have the pleasure of designing communities’ most vital institutions and infrastructure.

Crisis Center of Tampa Bay

Mission

The mission of the Crisis Center is to ensure that no one in our community has to face crisis alone.

Programs

• Interpreters
• Suicide & Crisis Hotline
• Sexual Assault Services
• Substance Abuse Hotline
• 211 Resource Database

Hillsborough County Sheriffs Office

Mission

The mission of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office is to serve, protect, and defend the community while preserving the rights and dignity of all. It’s our duty to make Hillsborough County, Florida a safer place. We do this by working together with the community. It's one of our greatest strengths.

Programs

• Bicycle Registration Program
• Ride Along Program
• Teen Driver Challenge Program
• Academies
• Advisory Councils
• Crime Prevention

Opiod Response Network

About

ORN was created through a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA) grant awarded to the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP) in collaboration with the Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network, at the University of Missouri - Kansas City, Columbia University Division on Substance Use Disorders and a large coalition of over 40 national professional organizations. ORN provides training and technical assistance (TA) via local experts across the country, focusing on applying evidence-based practices in prevention, treatment and recovery to meet locally identified needs. TA activities are designed to enhance efforts already underway throughout the United States and territories.

83 Degrees Media

About

Based in the Tampa Bay region of Florida, 83 Degrees Media is a weekly digital magazine leveraging the power of solutions-based and narrative journalism. One of several Issue Media Group publications, 83 Degrees and other IMG e-magazines aim to connect readers to their city’s most visionary and active people, businesses, and organizations – increasing the openness, aesthetics, and social offerings of communities. We work with like-minded stakeholders who have shared values and missions through an underwriting model of publishing. Our journalists engage the community through regular conversations to build trusted relationships with leaders and residents that shape the community’s unique stories. 83 Degrees began publishing in November 2009. Issue Media Group incorporated in 2005 in Detroit, MI.

Floria Blue Foundation

Mission

Help people and communities achieve better health.

Focus

We believe in enhancing the capacity of programs deemed to have lasting impact more than investing in approaches that may have high numbers served with little or no sustained impact. Similarly, we believe that it is better for an applicant to have a clear focus rather than try to use funds in numerous ways that rapidly diffuse the impact of limited financial, human and other resources.

Moffitt Cancer Center

Mission

To contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer.

About

As Florida’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center and one of only 30 leading cancer centers in the U.S. participating in the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, Moffitt is at the very forefront of cancer centers worldwide in pioneering advances like CAR T-cell therapy.

Moffitt is committed to the health and safety of our patients. That’s why we think and act differently, matching the courage of our patients with the courage to boldly innovate, so we can save more lives by providing the best care today. We're proud to have earned the highest accolades in numerous fields, as shown through our various awards and recognitions.

Faces and Voices of Recovery

Mission

Changing the way addiction and recovery are understood and embraced through advocacy, education and leadership.

Programs

Faces & Voices of Recovery works hard to advocate for public policies and funding that supports addiction recovery for all.

• Stigma Reduction
• Public Policy
• Recovery Advocacy Movement
• Recovery Voices Count Recovery Bill of Rights
• Family Recovery Advocacy

Florida Muticultural District

Mission

We exist to resource and serve, pastors, ministers, churches, and missionaries to fulfill the great commission.

About

The Bible is our all-sufficient rule for faith and practice. This Statement of Fundamental Truths is intended simply as a basis of fellowship among us (i.e., that we all speak the same thing, 1 Corinthians 1:10; Acts 2:42. The phraseology employed in this Statement is not inspired nor contended for, but the truth set forth is held to be essential to a full-gospel ministry. No claim is made that it covers all Biblical truth, only that it covers our need as to these fundamental doctrines.

USF Health

About

We are an enterprise for change in the way we understand health and how it transforms our quality of life. USF Health's mission is to envision and implement the future of health. Our commitment is to improve the full spectrum of health, from the environment, to the community, to the individual. Together through talent and innovation, USF Health is integrating research, education and health care to reach our shared value - making life better.

USF Health is the partnership of the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, the College of Nursing, the College of Public Health, the College of Pharmacy, the School of Biomedical Sciences and the School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences, and USF Health's multispecialty physicians group. USF Health is an integral part of the University of South Florida, a high-impact, global research university dedicated to student success.