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Take a Tampa adventure with local artist Mishou Sanchez

The local artists's coloring book, “Poppi Pink’s Tampa Adventure,” explores the city through a pop-surreal lens.

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Tampa Bay community leaders seek affordability solutions

Tampa Bay community leaders seek solutions to region's rising cost of living.

Season’s readings: Our Tampa Bay holiday guide

Our epic guide to holiday events in Tampa Bay.

Hillsborough collaboration promotes safe sleep for babies

Healthy Start Coalition of Hillsborough County's Safe Baby program hosts National Safe Sleep Awareness Month community education event.

The Redefining Refuge team, with founder and Executive Director Natasha Nascimento in the center, during Operation Dragon Eye, a two-week missing child operation across Tampa Bay considered the most successful child recovery operation is U.S. history
Redefining Refuge: Natasha Nascimento’s mission of hope for exploited children

Launched in 2010, Tampa Bay nonprofit Redefining Refuge has a vital, heart-wrenching role in providing care, support, and advocacy for children and youth recovered from exploitation and trafficking.

Heard 'Em Say's monthly open mic, the only youth open mic in Tampa, is a cornerstone program for the nonprofit.
Heard ‘Em Say helps young people find their voice through poetry, performance

Heard 'Em Say Youth Arts Collective, the nonprofit behind Tampa’s only youth open mic event, uplifts adolescent and teen voices through poetry, storytelling, and the arts. 

Artwork by Prodigy participants on display during a March 2024 showcase event at the University Area CDC Community Center
Arts at heart of University Area revitalization

The University Area Community Development Corporation is transforming a North Tampa neighborhood through creativity, community-building, and youth empowerment.

Suncoast Community Health Centers’ Mobile Dental Program brings dental care to the community
Coalition works to break down barriers to dental care access in Hillsborough, across Florida

Florida faces a dental care access crisis. Suncoast Community Health Centers’ innovative Mobile Dental Program and the coalition Floridians for Dental Access are part of the effort to solve it.

erasers, backpacks, etc. You name it, they probably Hillsborough County Public Schools teachers and instructional staff may "shop" for free at the Teaching Tools Resource Center twice a semester and four times a school year
Hillsborough Education Foundation supply drive supports teachers, students

Because of uncertainty over the impact of tariffs on school supply prices, Hillsborough Education Foundation is getting an early start on the annual donation drive to stock the nonprofit's free store for Hillsborough County Public Schools teachers. 

The Tampa Fringe Festival returns to Ybor City June 11th through 22nd with shows like the satire "American Fever Dream."
June arts: Tampa Fringe returns, Stageworks season finale, Studios @ 5663, more

The Tampa International Fringe Fest returns to Ybor City. Plus, "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill" at Stageworks Theatre, “VISIBLE: SEEN and HEARD" at Studios @ 5663, and much more.

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