Giving Together Catalog 2019

Give Together. Make a Difference. Change a life.
Dear friends,
Sometimes, little things make a big difference in a life. Imagine broadening
the cultural horizon of every 5 th grader in Brevard. Or equipping teens living
below the poverty line with the tools and resources to achieve academically.
Or fostering a sense of creativity and independence for children and adults
with special needs. What about providing much needed assistance to prevent
at-risk families from homelessness?
Each of these represents a real, tangible and immediate impact that you can
make through the 2019 Giving Together catalog.
The Giving Together catalog is exclusive to you as a fund holder of the
Community Foundation for Brevard. Not only is it one of our most popular
benefits, it helps advance our work to strengthen our nonprofit ecosystem
throughout our community.
Nonprofit programs chosen for this year’s catalog span impact areas from
arts & culture, education, the environment and animal welfare to basic needs
and more. Inside these pages, you’ll discover a broad array of opportunities
to foster a sense of home, enhance learning, or in many cases – save lives.
As you flip through, know the featured projects have been fully evaluated by
our professional staff, as well as a team of community volunteers, to ensure
they represent nonprofits working most effectively.
We ask you to join us in Giving Together to support our local community – we
are certain there’s a project to match your passion.
Theresa Grimison
President & CEO

The 2019 catalog includes the following
impact areas:
Adult & Families
Animal Welfare
Conservation &
Environment
Arts & Culture
How you use the
Giving Together
catalog is entirely
up to you!
You can choose to fulfill
an entire need, or a part
of several.
Educational Support
Health & Wellness
Housing, Food &
Basic Needs
* Organizations with Nonprofit
Endowment Funds at the Foundation
Please feel free to contact us
at 321.752.5505 with questions
about any of the projects,
or how you can make a grant
recommendation:
Theresa Grimison
TheresaG@CFBrevard.org
Lisa Davidson
LisaD@CFBrevard.org

Aging Matters in Brevard *
Funds will be used to purchase a new meat slicer for the kitchen, which
prepares up to 1,500 meals per day for the Brevard Senior Nutrition
Program. This program delivers meals on weekdays to homebound
seniors through its vital Meals on Wheels service and offers congregate
dining for seniors at 12 sites around the county.
Amount Requested:
$5,000
Amount Needed:
$2,770
Brevard County Legal Aid
The Health Excellence Advanced by Legal Services (HEALS) medicallegal
partnership with Parrish Medical Center was launched in 2018.
Funds will be used for a Program Director who will also serve as a
Volunteer Coordinator to recruit pro bono attorneys and pair them
with Parrish Medical Center patients who have health-harming legal
needs to help resolve those issues so the client may enjoy the best
possible outcomes for overall health and wellness.
Amount Requested:
$5,000
Amount Needed:
$5,000
Brevard PALS (Providing Autism Links and Supports)
CAMP-2-CAN, a 6-week summer camp for youth aged 8-22 with
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), offers a specialized experience by
supporting the individual needs of each camper - behavioral,
communicative or social. Almost daily field trips are led by highly
trained staff and volunteers. In addition, a doctor & staff from
Pediatrics of Brevard attends camp sessions so that children with ASD,
who also experience medical conditions such as diabetes or seizures,
can enjoy this camp experience. This is the ONLY recreational camp for
children with autism in Brevard.
Amount Requested:
$5,000
Amount Needed:
$5,000
Brevard Rescue Mission *
Brevard Rescue Mission works to permanently break the cycle of
homelessness in families by providing a long-term solution designed
for single mothers and their children. Families living at Casa Carol or
Joy's Place are provided with a fully stocked, safe apartment along with
a full array of the wrap around services needed to help them transition
into lives of self-sufficiency. Grant funds will support the immediate
living needs of the 13 families provided with housing and support.
Amount Requested:
$5,000
Amount Needed:
$5,000
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Brevard Symphony Orchestra
Broadening the cultural horizon of every 5th grade student in Brevard
County is the ultimate goal as they attend a unique concert by the
Brevard Symphony Orchestra in collaboration with Brevard County
Schools. During this concert, designed especially for the students, they
will learn how music makes us feel, think and experience life.
Amount Requested:
$5,000
Amount Needed:
$5,000
Club Esteem *
Ensuring underserved students have access to STEM learning and
educational support enabling them to finish high school and pursue
post high school education is crucial. Funding will provide tools,
resources, and the direct program support needed for students to
achieve academic and personal success at the middle and high school
levels. Additionally, we will be able to expand services to 20 additional
students in 6-12 grade currently on the waiting list.
Amount Requested:
$5,000
Amount Needed:
$5,000
Children’s Home Society of Florida
The proposed family literacy program will serve all families enrolled in
Early Head Start by providing early literacy materials for families to use
at home, parent education, and books for use in the program. The goals
of the Early Head Start Family Literacy program are to increase the
amount and quality of parent/child time spent engaging in language and
literacy related activities.
Amount Requested:
$5,000
Amount Needed:
$5,000
Community of Hope
Community of Hope serves homeless families who have children by
providing a variety housing options in an effort to move families from
homelessness to self sufficiency. Funding will allow them to develop
and publish a Family Stabilization and Transformation Guide with
standardized curriculum for both new clients and their assigned
mentors.
Amount Requested:
$4,955
Amount Needed:
$4,955
Daily Bread *
The Whole Heart Health program will help address a variety of mental
health emergencies. For many years, Daily Bread has focused on food,
physical hygiene and a variety of services. Today, with 60% of their
client base being homeless, more is required in recognizing the need
to further address possible mental concerns. This new program will
focus on the total scope of mental health services needed to allow
clients to stabilize and effectively treat their mental illness.
Amount Requested:
$5,000
Amount Needed:
$5,000
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Eastern Florida State College Foundation
Provide direct educational support in developing Brevard County's first
ever mechatronics courses at the State College level. Courses of study
in these emerging technologies are being developed in Brevard in
direct response to the region's recent and anticipated resurgence in
numerous high-demand, high-paying industries. The development of
this mechatronics lab will provide a pipeline of specialized and skilled
employees with high paying careers for local companies.
Evans Center
Funding will incentivize healthy food choices while addressing food
insecurity among SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program)
customers of the Evans Community Market, a not-for-profit, brand
new, grocery store serving an under-resourced neighborhood that has
been officially designated a USDA "food desert." Funds would provide
a dollar-for-dollar match (up to $8 per grocery shopping trip),
encouraging recipients to increase their consumption of fresh and/or
frozen fruits and vegetables.
The Haven for Children *
Providing children with a safe and engaging environment is extremely
important to their healing process. By keeping the facilities updated
we are able to provide the safest atmosphere for our kids. Grant funds
will be used to update flooring and paint in two of our residential
homes, as well as update the basketball court.
Amount Requested:
$5,000
Amount Needed:
$5,000
Amount Requested:
$5,000
Amount Needed:
$5,000
Amount Requested:
$5,000
Amount Needed:
$5,000
Health Council of East Central Florida
The Health Council operates the East Central Florida Cancer Control
Collaborative serving the needs of cancer patients and their caregivers
related to prevention, service access, and survivorship in Brevard and
six neighboring counties. The Collaborative Cancer Navigation App
connects patients, caregivers and case managers with local resources.
Currently, for Brevard, only 20 services are listed (most Orlando
based). Funding would allow us to add hundreds of identified cancer
care services in Brevard to the existing app.
Amount Requested:
$2,647
Amount Needed:
$2,647
The Historic Cocoa Village Playhouse
Now in its fifth year, the Playhouse engages 60 of Brevard’s youngest
STARS ages 10-12 in special performances designed for people of all
ages with physical and developmental challenges. Funds will be utilized
for our STARS of Tomorrow youth program and its affiliate Sensory
Sensitive Program to pay for royalties and associated production costs,
to accommodate families and persons living with Autism Spectrum
Disorder and other sensory sensitivities.
Amount Requested:
$5,000
Amount Needed:
$5,000
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Junior Achievement of the Space Coast *
Funding will support an additional 10 classrooms to receive the middle
school program, "JA It's My Future." This program, for 8th grade
students, provides practical information about preparing for the
working world by examining the 16 career clusters and career
mapping, learning about declining and high-growth careers and the
process of looking, applying, and interviewing for a job.
Amount Requested:
$5,000
Amount Needed:
$5,000
LEAD Brevard *
2020 Board Governance is a vital educational program for Brevard's
nonprofits; including leadership, staff, volunteers and board. As there
is no equivalent training offered in Brevard, this program is provided by
a nationally known subject matter expert who provides research based
best practices in board governance, including fundraising, which are
crucial topics for the success of our entire nonprofit sector.
Links of Hope
Funds will be used to support 22 parenting, anger management and
GED classes at the Brevard County Jail Complex (BCJC). The purpose of
the classes is to build strong families among inmates. We are the only
agency providing Parenting and Anger Management courses at BCJC.
Amount Requested:
$5,000
Amount Needed:
$5,000
Amount Requested:
$4,500
Amount Needed:
$4,500
Marine Resources Council of East Florida
Education staff and academic partners will create 3 STEAM lesson
plans aligned with science benchmarks of the biological, physical, and
chemical conditions of the Indian River Lagoon to prepare Brevard's
5th graders for the Florida Statewide Science Assessment Test. Lessons
will be developed, taught and evaluated during our 2019 summer day
camp held at the Lagoon House. Once evaluated and adjusted to meet
Florida standards, the MRC will offer the lessons to Brevard County 5th
graders for onsite school field trips.
Amount Requested:
$4,997
Amount Needed:
$2,497
M.O.R.G.A.N. Project
Morgan's Place is a safe and enriching place for children and young
adults with disabilities. The Innovative Sensorium is equipped with
wireless, state-of-the-art multisensory equipment to stimulate the
sensory pathways of touch, taste, sight, sound, smell, and movement
without the need for intellectual reasoning, providing a sense of
control to children that have very little control over their own lives.
Funding will be used to complete the interactive garden instruments,
as well as to offer a need-based, sliding scale co-pay for parents.
Amount Requested:
$5,000
Amount Needed:
$5,000
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National Association of Chiefs of Police
The Law Enforcement Education Program (LEEP), in partnership with
Eastern Florida State College and the Florida Dept. of Law Enforcement
will offer world-class strategic training to help local police officers face
21st century challenges. Funds will be utilized to purchase equipment
and cover some expenses for national trainers who will teach officers
better, faster and more appropriate responses to a variety of tactical
situations, thus saving both officer and civilian lives.
Amount Requested:
$5,000
Amount Needed:
$5,000
Neighbor Up Brevard *
The Dorcas Outreach Center for Kids (DOCK) summer camp includes a
combination of exciting field trips and academic activities which help
children retain educational gains achieved during the school year.
Funding will be used toward the Teens In Partnership program where
teens work at the DOCK assisting younger children as counselors
during summer camp.
Amount Requested:
$4,848
Amount Needed:
$4,848
Promise (Promise in Brevard)
One of Promise's planned social enterprises, the Promise Creative Arts
Center, began offering Mixed-Media Adult Art Classes in Summer 2018
to the general public covering a wide range of art mediums along with
twice-daily art classes for Promise residents with special needs. Funds
will be used to purchase necessary class supplies for the Promise
Creative Arts Center.
Amount Requested:
$5,000
Amount Needed:
$5,000
Salvation Army of North and Central Brevard
Supporting people in personal crisis to remain in their own homes and
feed their families until they can stabilize helps to alleviate the
emotional trauma and upheaval suffered by those affected. Funds will
be used for the Family Emergency Assistance Program to support
interim/emergency housing (to keep families housed and avoid
homelessness), food pantry, and daily feeding.
Amount Requested:
$5,000
Amount Needed:
$3,890
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Smiling Dog Rescue
Did you know pit breeds have one of the largest litters? They also
consistently comprise at least 75% of the dogs in Brevard County’s
primary shelter. The Snip-a-Pit Program offers free and low-cost
spaying/neutering of pit bulls and pit bull mixes to low-income owners
who otherwise could not afford the surgeries. The funds will be used
to pay for spaying/neutering approximately 50 pits at an average cost
of $100 per dog.
Amount Requested:
$5,000
Amount Needed:
$2,500
Society of Saint Vincent de Paul –
Holy Name of Jesus Conference
Funds will provide crisis resources/funding to the working poor when
they face major, unexpected, non-standard expenses that are beyond
their ability to pay.
Amount Requested:
$5,000
Amount Needed:
$5,000
South Brevard Sharing Center
The Coordinated Access Point project matches homeless and at-risk
households to permanent solutions best suited to their situation. By
providing services and light touch assistance for at-risk and homeless
households, particularly those who are transitionally homeless, they
are able to resolve situations quickly. Funding will provide households
with the financial assistance necessary for ending and preventing
homelessness with a goal of keeping them out of the homeless system
by empowering self-resolution whenever possible.
Amount Requested:
$5,000
Amount Needed:
$2,770
Titusville YMCA
Expand the reach and impact of their 10-week summer camp by
providing quality summer learning experiences for low income families
that would otherwise not have the capacity to attend. The national
YMCA curriculum philosophy is to provide a fun, safe atmosphere for
social, mental and physical development over 4 disciplines: (1) values
to reduce bullying, (2) reading to eliminate the summer slide, (3)
wellness to fight childhood obesity, and (4) fostering family
relationships.
Amount Requested:
$4,500
Amount Needed:
$4,500
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Other Ways to Give
Did you know that the Community Foundation has a number of
funds and programs that strengthen our ability to tackle critical
issues, develop solutions and provide services to the people
and organizations in our community at the right time?
Click on the
to give to one of our funds or programs:
Agency Endowment Funds – More than 30 visionary local nonprofit agencies are
building enduring assets and a stable revenue stream to ensure long-term sustainability
by establishing an endowment fund at the Foundation. Give today or learn how these
endowments can provide unique advantages for planned and estate giving.
Better Together Fund – These unrestricted gifts provide the Foundation with flexibility
in its charitable purpose, allowing the organization to respond to innovative projects
and changing community needs.
Brevard Relief Fund – The Brevard Relief Fund was seeded by a generous donor to help
address local needs in the aftermath of a disaster.
Children and Youth Fund – Youth development programs help under-served children
achieve their full potential by focusing on programs that build social, ethical, emotional
and physical health, as well as cognitive skills.
Community Foundation Fund – The engine that keeps the Foundation going. By
contributing to this fund, you are helping the Foundation grow faster to improve the
quality of life for all in Brevard County. In addition to supporting the day-to-day operations
of the Foundation, this fund also provides educational and training opportunities for
professionals in the nonprofit community, as well as individual donors across the County.
Community Scholarship Fund – Established in 2018 by a visionary anonymous donor, the
endowed Community Scholarship Fund provides financial aid for deserving Brevard County
residents pursuing post-secondary education, with priority for students who will be the first
in their families to receive a bachelor’s degree.
Endowment for the Arts – A thriving arts community supports economic development
and enhances quality of life by providing opportunities to socialize, learn and celebrate
the diversity and creativity of our community.
Veterans Fund – We recognize the opportunity in our community to support the strengths
and meet the needs of veterans and their families, through grants and the Brevard Veterans
Resource Network.
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GIVING TOGETHER
To make a grant recommendation
from your Donor Advised Fund,
please complete a:
GRANT
RECOMMENDATION
FORM
Then, return it to the
Community Foundation:
1361 Bedford Drive, Suite 102
Melbourne, FL 32940
PH: 321.752.5505
FAX: 321.752.5506
Email: info@cfbrevard.org
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Questions or need assistance,
contact our team:
Theresa Grimison, President & CEO
Licci Barham, Executive Assistant
Lisa Davidson, Director of Strategy & Communications
Brittani James, Grants Coordinator
Shari Richards, CPA, Director of Finance

1361 Bedford Drive, Suite 102
Melbourne, FL 32940
321-752-5505 CFBrevard.org