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Sunday’s Child Announces 2023 Grant Finalists
PENSACOLA, Fla. (May 1, 2023) – Sunday’s Child, a Pensacola Bay Area member-based philanthropic group that promotes LGBTQ+ inclusion and equality by awarding grants to significant charitable and economic initiatives, recently announced its 2023 Grant Cycle finalists. The finalists were selected after a thorough vetting process and site visits by Sunday’s Child members. The nonprofits and their projects vying for one of six grants in the amount of $20,000 are:
Washington High Softball Booster Club: Project - If We Build it, They Will Come
Dixon School of Arts and Science: Project - Dixon Cultural Immersion Lab
Community Health Northwest Florida: Project - Closing the Treatment Loop for the LGBTQIA+
Bright Bridge Ministries: Project - A Comfortable Space is a Welcoming Place
Re-entry Alliance Pensacola, Inc.: Project - Modernizing an Outdated System
Stamped LGBTQIA Film Festival: Project - Growing Up: Expanding LGBTQIA+ Programs for Children and Families at Stamped Film Festival
Pensacola Little Theatre: Project - On the Same Page: Race and Censorship at the Clark Family Cultural Center
Valerie's House Pensacola Chapter: Project - Gender Neutral Bathrooms
Council on Aging of West Florida: Project - Someone Waits for Me, too
Funding for the grants comes from Sunday’s Child members. Since 2014, Sunday’s Child has awarded $764,250 to local charities in the Pensacola Bay Area. Sunday’s Child President Jacey Cosentino announced in January that the 2023 membership drive had resulted in $120,000 raised from among its 182 members that would enable the organization to award six grants of $20,000 each to 501(c)3 nonprofits in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties that demonstrate a commitment to diversity, inclusion and equality. Cosentino stated, “We are so pleased to announce 9 deserving organizations from within our community; each has a shared passion for making everyone feel included and welcomed.”
Sunday’s Child members will select the six grant recipient charities and their projects from among the 9 finalists at its annual meeting on June 25, 2023. For more information on Sunday’s Child and its grant process, visit sundayschild.org.