Recent funding from the Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation focuses on the community’s most pressing issues. Grant recipients included Mote Marine Laboratory to fight red tide; Legal Aid of Manasota to eliminate legal hurdles for foster kids and assist in foster aid; All Faiths Food Bank to feed hungry children and assist in mental health services and housing; Sarasota Bayfront Planning Organization to restore the public Sarasota waterfront; The Florida Center for Early Childhood for mental health intervention for children; Forty Carrots Family Center to support their mission to educate parents to help children thrive; the Boys and Girls Clubs of Sarasota County to expand theie youth night programs; Parenting Matters to prevent child abuse/neglect; the Gulf Coast Community Foundation to help in the search to solve chronic adult homelessness; Mothers Helping Mothers to strengthen efforts supporting women, and many more. An additional $1.5 million in funding was awarded to provide annual support and sponsorships for partner organizations.

Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation