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Causes: Community Foundations, Philanthropy
Mission: To build a better community through creative philanthropy, vision and leadership in partnership and collaboration with donors, nonprofits, community and business leaders, professional advisors, volunteers and the residents of our five-county region.
Programs: Give day tampa bay - the event held may 2, 2017 was part of a national day of giving movement to raise the profile of charitable giving in the tampa bay region. The event especially targets first-time donors and millennial donors. The one-day event depends laregly on social media to spread the word. Secure donations are collected online. In its fourth year, give day tampa bay generated $1. 75 million for 525 registered nonprofits. Contributions came from 10,400 individual donors.
leadership development - the community foundation of tampa bay is dedicated to building nonprofit capacity through leadership development for ceos and trustees. Cftb's ceo leadership program, in its sixth year, annually provides 21 nonprofit executives with an intensive, year-long program to better understand their leadership styles, strengths and areas for development. The program brings together the ceos for peer group sessions one day a month with an additional monthly one-on-one coaching session that focuses on specific issues related to leading a nonprofit organization. The sessions are designed to create a confidential, supportive and safe environment to discuss challenge such as isolation, fundraising, and board development. Practical solutions often arise that can be applied back at the office. Participants also attend a two-day leadership seminar at eckerd college's leadership development institute, which includes elements such as a 360 degree assessment of leadership style and behavior, the videotaping of each ceo engaging in a fundraising conversation, and peer feedback giving insight into how the leaders are perceived by one another. In addition to the ceo leadership program, cftb conducts a nonprofit governance initiative, which sent nine local nonprofit trustees to harvard business school's "governing for nonprofit excellence" program as an expansion of its nonprofit leadership training. The board members participating in the harvard program all came from nonprofits who's ceos are graduates of the nonprofit ceo leadership program. When they returned from harvard, they shared what they learned with other nonprofit board members in a series of collaborative sessions.
leap, hillsborough college access network - the community foundation of tampa bay joined numerous public and private community stakeholders to launch leap, hillsborough's college access network. The goal of leap is to ensure that 60% of hillsborough's working-aged adults secure a postsecondary degree or credential by the year 2025. Leap is the ninth local college access network, operating under the guidance of the florida college access network. Cftb acts as the backbone agency of the collaborative. The creation of leap, hillsborough's college access network, rallies civic and business leaders alongside educators to reach the community goal of increasing the number of working-aged adults who have a high-quality postsecondary degree to 60 percent by the year 2025.
the composition of 4d is as follows - $10,968,536 of expenses including grants of $10,259,764 which are explained below:unallocated program service and grants administrative expenses- $708,772 of expensesscholarships - $359,925 of expenses including grants of $359,925grants to chartiable organizations - $9,899,839 of expenses including grants of $9,899,839