Reading Bigs News Today

Empower Potential, a $7.5 million effort, will centralize Big Brothers Big Sisters to reach and serve a wider area with its one-on-one matches.

All Faiths Food Bank gave Safe Children Coalition $2,000 so it could easily keep a sufficient supply of meat and perishable food on hand.

Libertore Fund for Children, Inc. has awarded $10,000 to Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Sun Coast for its site-based Reading Bigs program for children in kindergarten through third grade, in Sarasota and Manatee counties. The Reading Bigs initiative serves underprivileged students whose reading proficiency is below the minimum standards set by the students school board, and who have been identified by school personnel as unlikely to pass the Florida Standards Assessment for English Language A...

$59,583 from Edward Henry Lyman Charitable Fund of the Community Foundation of Sarasota County, in support of the maintenance, repair and general costs of the Food Banks fleet of vehicles; $73,000 from Share Our Strength, in support of the sackpack and school pantry programs in DeSoto County; and $105,000 from The Stone Foundation, in support of the Mobile Farm Market, backpack and veterans’ assistance programs. … Wawa Foundation has awarded a $3,000 grant to Big Brothers Big Sisters o...