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Strengthening Communities Across Tampa Academy Prep Center of Tampa Skills for life. Our volunteers teach a social skills program for students at Academy Prep Center of Tampa, a private, nonprofit middle school for inner-city children who qualify for need-based scholarships and who have the desire to succeed in a rigorous academic program. Children’s Cancer Center A brighter day. We sponsor and staff a Fall Festival and Spring Carnival, which each draw crowds of more than 200 people whose lives have been touched by cancer. For children who are newly diagnosed with cancer, we assemble special love bundles with items that the children can use while at the hospital for treatments. Children’s Literacy Project My own library. We send trained volunteers into kindergarten classrooms at Hillsborough County Title I schools to conduct storytelling sessions and give each child 16 books per year to take home. Support materials are also distributed to the classrooms for hands-on experiences with literature. Community Action Helping hands. Junior League of Tampa members provide funding and hands-on volunteer service in the community to qualified agencies for short-term or one day projects or events. Connected by 25 Extending the connection. We assist Connected by 25 with preparing foster children, ages 13 to 17, for adulthood and life after foster care. We also sponsor events to allow the older youth to reconnect with their younger siblings who reside with other families. DACCO Building healthy families. Our volunteers will implement a training program to help women, who are moving beyond drug addiction, build healthy family relationships, maintain a donated clothing closet, and financially assist with new construction. Food 4 Kids Filling empty bellies. The League provides food for all children enrolled in the Kids’ Café program at the Wilbert Davis-Belmont Heights Boys and Girls Club to eat over weekends and holidays when the meals they typically receive at school and at the club are not available. Glazer Children’s Museum Building for the future. The Junior League of Tampa pledged $250,000 to support the construction of the new museum. Once it opens, we will give volunteer hours focused on providing museum access and programming to disadvantaged children. Hope Prep Hands-on learning for students that need it most. We provide four classes, from preschool to 5th grade, with learning centers unique to each grade level’s needs and volunteers to facilitate the activities. Kids Connect Find a forever family. Our volunteers plan, coordinate and facilitate two events each year that provide a fun, natural environment for hard-to-place foster children and prospective parents to meet and spend quality time together. Kids in the Kitchen Fighting childhood obesity. By promoting family health through innovative, fun programming like Kids in the Kitchen, The Junior League of Tampa continues to build on a tradition of involvement in important community matters. Love Bundles Labor of love. Our volunteers provide children in foster care and protective custody with special backpacks containing essential developmental items and immediate needs. Each year, virtually every child removed from his or her home receives one of our Love Bundles. Mary Lee’s House A safe haven. We continue our support of this center where children, who have been abused, receive comprehensive assessments and services ‘under one roof’ ensuring that they are not traumatized again by the systems designed to protect them. Treasures for Tampa Fulfilling needs. A transformation of the former Thrift Sale into a community service project, Treasures for Tampa volunteers collect, sort, and distribute member merchandise donations to community organizations with specific needs.
Executive Committee Board of Directors Community Advisory Board Jennifer Johnson President 2008-2009 Jennifer Carlstedt President-Elect Laura Hobby Community Vice President Allison Burden Membership Vice President Laura Lee Glass Recording Secretary Kathleen Thaxton Corresponding Secretary Betsy Graham Treasurer Stephanie Wiendl Assistant Treasurer Fundraising 2008 Holiday Gift Market November 7 – 9 Entertainment Hall Florida State Fairgrounds The Junior League of Tampa Cookbooks are available for purchase online at www.jltampa.org. The Life of the Party EveryDay Feasts Savor the Seasons The Gasparilla Cookbook Tampa Treasures Heather Barrow Weatherly Bentley Megan Berrigan Christina Boe Wendy Brill Susan Brindise Mary Brooker Laurie Ann Burton Christina Canody Paula Cardoso Stacy Carlson Kimberly Carswell Patti Cowart Kimberly Davis Stacie Dickey Terrie Dodson Stacy Hahn Sarane Harrell Susan Hawkins Lauri Kleman Meg F. Korakis Leigh Lambert Andrea Layne Kari Lennon Lisa Lockhart Shannon Longo Lee Lowry Allison Beard Luzier Cindy McGinness Whitney Moyer Darla Nutter Sarah Perron Kathleen Purdy Amie Ragano Clara Reynolds Lynette Russell Kelly Scaglione Sheri Schobert Paula Sincell Dori Siverio-Minardi Jennifer Johnson Sober Elaine Sweeney Heather Vermette Christina Volini India Witte Lizabeth Wolfe Richard Adams President and CEO Heritage Bank of Florida Carolyn Bricklemyer Former Chairman Hillsborough County School Board Mike Bridenback Trial Court Administrator Thirteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida Joseph W. Clark President Eckerd Family Foundation Hosetta Coleman HR Director Fifth Third Bank, Tampa Bay Nikki Daniels, L.C.S.W. Executive Director Family Justice Center of Hillsborough County, Inc. Bobbi N. Davis, Ph.D. Resource Development Manager Children’s Board of Hillsborough County Bruce Faulmann Vice President of Advertising and Sales The Tampa Tribune and Florida Publishing Group Stephen Fluharty Office Executive and Senior Vice President The Bank of Tampa John Giordano Shareholder Bush Ross Attorneys at Law Irene Guy Director of Public Policy and External Affairs Verizon Communications Heidi Heinz Director of Marketing and Promotions WQYK 99.5 and WBZZ 1010-AM Mark Lenker, CPA The Junior League of Tampa Auditor Nobles, Decker, Lenker & Cardoso Winnie Magnon Marvel President and Owner Alvin Magnon Jewelers Brian McEwen, Ph.D. Associate Director Child Abuse Council Harold W. Mullis, Jr. President and Founding Member Trenam Kemker Attorneys Paul Pizzo Shareholder Fowler White Boggs Banker Attorneys at Law Frannie Reynolds Sustainer of the Year The Junior League of Tampa Kelly Ring Anchor Fox 13 Tampa Bay Aileen Rodriguez Gulf Coast Regional Director Office of U.S. Senator Mel Martinez Staci Schaible Anchor WFLA News Channel 8 Hon. Michelle Sisco Thirteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida Robert Yelverton, M.D. CEO and Medical Director Tampa Bay Women’s Care
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