Spirit of giving, dedication to homeless alive in downtown Jacksonville
As Northeast Florida’s largest provider of comprehensive services for homeless men, women and children, I. M Sulzbacher Center plays a major role in the city’s…
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Volunteering teens gain confidence
When Sandalwood High School teacher Maria Gumbayan first brought her students to volunteer in The Salvation Army’s food pantry 12 years ago, the experience came…
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Meeting the needs of the hungry without discrimination
As a well-known advocate for the lost, the vulnerable, the needy, the poor, the hurting, the helpless, and the hopeless, it comes as no surprise…
Read MoreThe Salvation Army in Jacksonville holds Back to School supplies drive for local kids in need
This summer, The Salvation Army in Jacksonville will help local families send their kids back to school prepared by holding a Back to School supplies…
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Church group provides tuna casserole, served with love
On the last Friday of every month, Bill Kornmayer and his wife, Rita, join a small team of volunteers from Our Lady Star of the…
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Nonprofit provides 20 years of compassionate care to Beaches’ homeless
It’s been 20 years since members of four Beaches churches joined together to create Mission House, the only day facility at the Jacksonville beaches that…
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Commitment to underserved shines through agency’s work
It was Lutheran Social Service’s mission to fill in the gaps for neighbors in need of a meal that attracted Jeff Viau and his wife,…
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Feeding the many faces of hunger
For more than 35 years, employees at Lutheran Social Services (LSS) have been working to nourish hungry Northeast Florida residents though a wide array of…
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CLIFF’S BAR & GRILL RAISES OVER $10,000 for SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA
An Arlington sports bar delivered more than bar bites and trivia for over 1,600 Special Olympics Florida athletes and unified partners this season. Special Olympics…
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TPC Red Coats, Lucy Gooding Charitable Foundation Trust purchase bus for youth center
Over 100 school-age children and youth served by The Carpenter’s Shop Center’s after-school program gathered May 17, 2018 in the facility’s playground with staff, parents,…
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Checks roll in for Nemours Children’s Specialty Care
Nemours launches first-ever comprehensive fundraising campaign After 30 years of quietly offering quality medical care to children in the Jacksonville community, leaders at Nemours Children’s…
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Retired volunteer busies herself by giving back
For seven years Paula Caplan has served once a week at the Jewish Family and Community Services’ Max Block Food Pantry. Although she wishes she…
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Food pantry aims to help people help themselves
Falling in line with the century-old Jewish Family & Community Service’s mission to “help people help themselves,” JFCS’s Max Block Food Pantry does not discriminate…
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Nonprofit provides alternate way to feed people in need
Since its inception five years ago, Hunger Fight has distributed more than 3,711,943 prepackaged meals to children and families deemed food insecure throughout the Southeast….
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Becoming part of “something bigger than myself”
It was the song “Fill a Heart” Tori Kelly wrote for the campaign Child Hunger Ends Here that inspired the Williams sisters, Khadjah and Vivica,…
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Major food bank distributes food so hungry can be fed
There is no single human need greater than food, and because hunger triggers crime, and affects unemployment, worker productivity, and education, Feeding Northeast Florida is…
Read MoreHumana Foundation includes Jacksonville in planned health-focused communities
The Humana Foundation, philanthropic arm of Humana Inc. for the past 37 years, announced the details of its planned health-focused community investing work for 2018…
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Working hard so no one will go hungry
It was fear of being bored in retirement that eventually led Emma Holt to volunteer at the Farm Share warehouse on Jessie Street, where she…
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Making sure good food doesn’t go to waste
Every year more than 40 percent of the food grown by farmers is either dumped in a landfill or left in the field to rot…
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First a client, then a volunteer
Richard DuMiller may have lost the lower half of his left leg in Vietnam but that does not prevent him from volunteering 52 hours a…
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