Sunday’s Child, a Pensacola Bay Area member-based philanthropic group that promotes LGBTQ+ inclusion and equality by awarding grants to significant charitable and economic initiatives, recently announced its 2023 Grant Cycle finalists. The finalists were selected after a thorough vetting process and site visits by Sunday’s Child members. The nonprofits and their projects vying for one of six grants in the amount of $20,000 are:
• Washington High Softball Booster Club: Project – If We Build it, They Will Come
• Dixon School of Arts and Science: Project – Dixon Cultural Immersion Lab
• Community Health Northwest Florida: Project – Closing the Treatment Loop for the LGBTQIA+
• Bright Bridge Ministries: Project – A Comfortable Space is a Welcoming Place
• Re-entry Alliance Pensacola, Inc.: Project – Modernizing an Outdated System
• Stamped LGBTQIA Film Festival: Project – Growing Up: Expanding LGBTQIA+ Programs for Children and Families at Stamped Film Festival
• Pensacola Little Theatre: Project – On the Same Page: Race and Censorship at the Clark Family Cultural Center
• Valerie’s House Pensacola Chapter: Project – Gender Neutral Bathrooms
• Council on Aging of West Florida: Project – Someone Waits for Me, too
Funding for the grants comes from Sunday’s Child members. Since 2014, Sunday’s Child has awarded $764,250 to local charities in the Pensacola Bay Area. Sunday’s Child President Jacey Cosentino announced in January that the 2023 membership drive had resulted in $120,000 raised from among its 182 members that would enable the organization to award six grants of $20,000 each to 501(c)3 nonprofits in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties that demonstrate a commitment to diversity, inclusion and equality. Cosentino stated, “We are so pleased to announce nine deserving organizations from within our community; each has a shared passion for making everyone feel included and welcomed.”
Sunday’s Child members will select the six grant recipient charities and their projects from among the nine finalists at its annual meeting on June 25, 2023. For more information on Sunday’s Child and its grant process, visit sundayschild.org.