We need people (young, old, skaters, skaters-at-heart) to help us with or skateboard build days and various distribution events. If you like to teach kids how to get started with their boards or you want to help us flip burgers at a distribution party – let us know and plan to attend one of our…

Brushing and preparing the horse and riding equipment (tack) for a rider, and/or taking off tack and caring for the horse after a ride is completed.  Special training for this task is also provided.

Guiding a specially trained horse before, during and after a rider is mounted, as directed by the riding instructor.  Volunteers undergo training to ensure their comfort and confidence in horse handling and leading prior to being assigned this duty.

Thanks to a recent small grant from the Tampa Bay Resilience Fund, the HOME Foundation is able to offer some free counseling sessions to children and families, including essential workers. Right now the sessions are through a secure Telehealth service until our office reopens this Summer. If you are interested in obtaining counseling sessions for…

With the current world wide crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic the single-mother families we serve have been effected financially. Shepherd’s Village provides affordable housing and life skill resources for working low income single-mothers. During this crisis more than half of our moms have experienced a job loss or significant decrease in wages, all while having…

We are in need of masks for our teaching staff as well as our children. Learning Empowered has four Centers for Early Learning working with children from two  months to VPK (four years). As we begin to plan the beginning phases of re-opening our centers, one of the items we are in need of are…

BONITA SPRINGS — Chris Jeffray had it all planned. His father Russ, now in his fourth year as a cancer survivor, would join his mother Karen and fly down from New Jersey for the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life of Estero/Bonita Springs on April 4 at Bonita Springs High School. He also had friends…

On our Tampa campus, we still need volunteers for our outreach services and environmental (janitorial) teams as well. We are practicing social distancing and groups will be limited to 10 individuals or less per area.

Our most pressing task is helping to prepare ‘Boxes of Hope’ for people that need food assistance. Sign up on our website or reach out by email above. We are practicing social distancing and groups will be limited to 10 individuals or less per area.

With many people at home now or working from their homes or families with children home from school, it would be a perfect way to spend your time and redirect your attention away from what is scary and concerning to all of us. It would be a wonderful learning skill for your children as well…