The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office Charitable Foundation, Inc., is pleased to announce the addition of Dennis B. Murphy, Jr. to the Board of Directors. Murphy is President and CEO of Gulfside Bank. Mr. Murphy has been active in the Sarasota and Bradenton communities since moving to the area in 2004. The mission of the independent Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office Charitable Foundation, Inc. is to assist individual employees of the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office who are experiencing unexpected, extraordinary personal or family crisis. The Foundation is an independent 501(c)3 organization, organized by a group of local citizens who recognized that despite the incalculable contribution law enforcement agents make to our quality of life, the economic protection they receive is often inadequate in the face of personal or family need. It was with these challenges in mind that the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office Charitable Foundation was formed in 2014, to support our law enforcement through crisis grants during times of extraordinary hardship. Murphy joins Chair Michael Quillen, and current Board, Peter Abbott, Captain Debra Kaspar (SSO Retired), Captain John Walsh (SSO Retired), Anne Rollings, Jason Toale and Foundation Administrator, Kim Noyes on the SCSOCF Board. The Board proudly serves on a voluntary basis and is a confidential resource of community solidarity to SSO employees in times of crisis. For more information on the work of the Foundation, visit www.scsocharitablefoundation.org or contact Foundation Administrator, Kim Noyes at 941.925.2970 or scsocharitablefoundation@gmail.com.