Much has changed for the better in East Tampa since the 1980s when riots rocked the majority minority community and criminals ran rampant, but many challenges remain even as bold solution makers work to create jobs, new housing, education opportunities, access to healthcare, and a safe environment.
Plan Hillsborough, Walk Bike Tampa and other community partners have organized Safe Streets Week to work for solutions that address the significant community issue of pedestrian and bicyclist safety.
Across Tampa Bay, nonprofits and community groups mobilize for post-Helene relief and recovery efforts.
Photos from the second annual Tampa World Car-Free Day, a bike ride to a block party that promotes transportation options.
Nonprofit Wheels of Success celebrates 20 years of helping people down the road to success by providing the vehicles that get them to work.
D'Andra Green launched her grassroots effort, SEANS Love Project, in memory of the son she lost to gun violence. "All 4 Peace" on July 20th at University Park is the group's first community event.
With funding from the Children's Board of Hillsborough County, the Kiwanis Club of Tampa's StoryWalk installations in local parks promote exercise and children's literacy.
Presented in March 2023 at Stageworks Theatre, "When the Righteous Triumph" depicts Tampa's civil rights lunch counter sit-ins of 1960. Relatives of protest leaders and a former state senator who participated in the first sit-in as a high school student are raising money to restage the play at the Straz Center's Jaeb Theater.
Tampa nonprofit the Caribbean American National Development Organization, better known as CANDO, is on a mission to strengthen and celebrate the Caribbean American community.
In a collaboration of national and regional nonprofits, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded Community Foundation Tampa Bay $300k to fund grants to local nonprofits for hurricane recovery and preparedness.
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