St. Petersburg Free Clinic’s Beacon House Provides Support.

St. Petersburg Free Clinic’s Beacon House provides safe, supportive, transitional shelter to single, homeless men serving up to 25 men at any one time. With the aid of Beacon House staff and volunteers, men are motivated and guided through the process of transitioning from homeless life to long-term housing, independence and financial stability. Pinellas Community Foundation is proud to be a long-time supporter of Beacon House.

This short video tells the story of how Beacon House changed one man’s life. With a major support system in place, Beacon House is making a difference by aiding homeless men — giving them a place to sleep, helping them get a job and finally move into their own apartments. For more information about the Beacon House visit http://stpetersburgfreeclinic.org/.

Creative Clay Part 2: How This Non-profit Helps the Pinellas Community

The staff and teaching artists at Creative Clay endeavor daily to inspire adults and children with disabilities, veterans and those in healthcare settings. Their vision is to make the arts accessible to all, according to Executive Director Kim Dohrman.

Creative Clay helps individuals to grow as artists and to reach their greatest potential. Creative Clay enables its participants to continue to grow and make the arts accessible through the generosity of wonderful community partners like Pinellas Community Foundation. And through their generosity, they’ve been able to offer scholarships to children who attend Creative Clay’s summer camp – who might one day grow up to be a working, successful artist like Ali.

Ali is not content to rest on her current successes. She has goals as well: 

· Take an art class outside of Creative Clay, possibly at the Morean Center for Clay or University of South Florida.

· Show her work outside of Creative Clay’s Good Folk Gallery.

· Create 14 new paintings to fill her artist tent at St. Petersburg’s Folkfest event.

· Participate in speaking presentations with local groups, such as Rotary and Kiwanis.

“Our whole vision is to make the arts accessible to all,” says Dohrman. And the Pinellas Community Foundation helps by providing grants for Creative Clay’s operating expenses – which helps make that vision possible.

Photos from 2016 “The Longest Table” Event in St. Petersburg

The Longest Table event was a unique dining experience set in beautiful downtown St. Petersburg. This epicurean adventure takes the most grandly set tables and places them in the middle of a city street just along the waterfront. The Pinellas Community Foundation was one of the proud sponsors of this event benefiting WUSF Public Media.

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Sponsoring Public Media at THE LONGEST TABLE

It will be an exciting and breathtaking evening when WUSF lays out tables down the middle of Bayshore Drive in St. Petersburg on April 14, 2016. It is all for The Longest Table, WUSF Public Media’s annual spring benefit. The Longest Table is an epicurean experience that showcases prix fixe menus from the area’s finest restaurants. Following dinner, the party continues at the Museum of Fine Arts with friends from WUSF Public Media and the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg.

WUSF Public Media, the only public radio and television organization in the Tampa Bay area, provides meaningful and relevant content that enhances quality of life in our community. In addition to its unique blend music broadcasting, WUSF also provides a wide range of original programing with a focus on education, healthcare, the environment and military affairs.

The Longest Table is a fundraiser celebrating the 50th anniversary of WUSF. Funds from the event support the continuance of public media in the Tampa Bay area. Pinellas Community Foundation is proud to sponsor The Longest Table. Click here for photos of last year’s event.

Tickets Available Now: Click Here.

WHERE & WHEN:

Location: Downtown St. Petersburg

Date: Thursday, April 14, 2016

Time: 5:30 PM

Professional Advisors: Nonprofit and Charity Funding

If your client is thinking about making a charitable gift, the Pinellas Community Foundation offers a variety of giving vehicles. These vehicles provide specific tax benefits to your clients and help them achieve their financial, charitable, and business goals. Six main benefits of working with the Pinellas Community Foundation:

1. The Foundation has over 40 years of experience serving individuals, families, nonprofits, businesses and private foundations.
2. Your clients can use the Foundation to support multiple charities – locally or nationally.
3. You have the opportunity to help create an enduring legacy for your clients through funds that fulfill their charitable wishes.
4. We offer a full range of philanthropic services to meet your clients’ specific needs, such as choosing the right giving strategy or identifying the best organizations to support.
5. We provide expertise on community issues, as well as organizations that help and support them.
6. Your clients will receive the maximum tax advantages allowed by law.

Your client supplies the passion and ideas, while we provide the expertise and infrastructure.

For additional information you can go to the Pinellas Community Foundation website or call 727.531.0058.

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Private vs. Family Foundations

The Pinellas Community Foundation is a time and cost saving alternative to a private or family foundation. The Foundation assumes all of the administrative and reporting requirements and helps the donor to avoid or decrease all the extensive legal costs and paper work. This type of fund can be created in a day versus several months.

A fund with the Foundation offers many advantages, along with greater charitable tax benefits. For example, gifts of cash or ordinary property to the Foundation are deductible up to 50% of adjusted gross income (AGI). Gifts to private or family foundations are deductible only to 30% of AGI. Similarly, gifts of appreciated property to community foundations can be credited for 30% compared to 20% for a private foundation. There are no excise taxes on community foundations as there are on private foundations and community foundations do not have a requirement that a certain percentage must be distributed each year.

To learn more, contact the Pinellas Community Foundation at (727) 734-2609.

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