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My Family’s Future (www.myfamilysfuture.org) was launched in early October to help Tampa Bay families build stronger financial futures. The site contains a wide range of information about banking accounts, home buying, loans, credit, as well as a searchable listing of organizations that can help families through workshops, courses, and financial services, and financial counselling. The web site is free to use and organizations listed on the web site must meet certain criteria to ensure that they are recognized service providers with a track record.
Service providers of financial education, counselling, and other services are invited to get a free listing on the web site. Please take a look at the criteria and if there is a match, please register. Click HERE. Financial institutions (banks and credit unions) are encouraged to sign up as well).
My Family’s Future is supported through a lead sponsorship from SunTrust.
The United Way of Tampa Bay and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers teamed up on October 10, 2007 to provide new sports equipment to Sulphur Springs Elementary School as part of the National Football League’s nationwide collaboration, Hometown Huddle.
Through the efforts of the United Way’s community impact initiative, Buccaneers players Sammy Davis, Ike Hilliard, Matt Lehr, and Maurice Stovall joined team mascot, Captain Fear, in personally delivering the equipment for the school’s Physical Education Department. Jump ropes, baseballs, footballs, soccer balls and goals, basketballs and nets were donated for use in the school’s Physical Education curriculum.
Led by Sulphur Springs principal Cora Wimberly, the school was in frenzied form for the arrival of their beloved Buccaneers. Handmade pennants, hats, banners adorned the school’s playground, while many children and teachers were dressed in Buccaneer jerseys and t-shirts honoring their hometown team. Chants of ‘Let’s Go Bucs’ were echoing throughout the school’s playground as the players arrived.
The Buc players joined Emery Ivery, Vice President of Community and Partnership Development, in talking about the community impact efforts of the United Way and the importance of hard work and success. They then put the new equipment to good use, playing basketball, jumping rope, and participating in parachute games with the kids. The NFL and United Way’s Hometown Huddle is a collection of hands-on volunteer projects implemented simultaneously on a single Tuesday in different NFL cities across the country.
Thanks to Hometown Huddle 2007, the Buccaneers and United Way ensured that the children in Sulphur Springs will enjoy their physical education experience on a daily basis.
The Highland Pines Playground received a new play site on September 27, 2007. The project was the result of a collaboration resources between the City of Tampa Parks and Recreation Department, KaBoom, Home Depot, the United Way of Tampa Bay, and the Friend of the Parks and Recreation.
The playground build was the result of a two month process of meetings and planning to provide the children who reside in Highland Pines with a new playspace. The build included volunteers from Home Depot, community residents, youth from Mayor’s Corp, students from Tampa Bay Tech, and city of Tampa employees. The build day included assembling a playground, mulching the play surface, and side projects which were a horse shoe pit, painting a map of the United States, painting cubbies for the recreation center, and games for the youth to play.
The playground official opened for play on September 29, 2007 and is a testimony to how partners from all sectors can come together to make a difference in the lives of children.
