Newest Ukraine relief fund in Tampa includes match for donations

Community Foundation Tampa Bay seeks donations to a new Ukrainian relief fund established by the Lindell family of Tampa.

By Diane Egner

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April 4, 2022

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Physician Lyda Tymiak Lindell and her husband Carl Lindell, a Tampa Bay Area developer and former car dealer, have created a new Ukrainian relief fund at Community Foundation Tampa Bay.

“This tragedy has hit me personally. I am of Ukrainian heritage and it was my first language,” says Lyda Tymiak Lindell in describing what motivated her and her husband. “My parents escaped from Ukraine after World War II with only the clothes on their backs and their education. When my father was a student he was imprisoned by the Soviets in a basement and survived a bomb attack when the bomb did not detonate. My family never lost sight of the importance of freedom and democracy.”

To learn more and make a donation to the UNICEF Ukraine Crisis Relief Campaign, follow this link.

Author

Diane Egner is a community leader and award-winning journalist with more than four decades of experience reporting and writing about the Tampa Bay Area of Florida. She serves on the boards of the University of South Florida Zimmerman School of Advertising & Mass Communications Advisory Council, The Institute for Research in Art (Graphicstudio, the Contemporary Art Museum, and USF’s Public Art Program) Community Advisory Council, Sing Out and Read, and StageWorks Theatre Advisory Council. She also is a member of Leadership Florida and the Athena Society. A graduate of the University of Minnesota with a BA in journalism, she won the top statewide award for editorial writing from the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors while at The Tampa Tribune and received special recognition by the Tampa Bay Association of Black Journalists for creative work as Content Director at WUSF Public Media. Past accomplishments and community service include leadership positions with Tampa Tiger Bay Club, USF Women in Leadership & Philanthropy (WLP), Alpha House of Tampa Bay, Awesome Tampa Bay, Florida Kinship Center, AIA Tampa Bay, Powerstories, Arts Council of Hillsborough County, and the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce. Diane and her husband, Sandy Rief, live in Tampa.