Ashley Heath Dietz previously served as senior director of community partnerships and operations for United Way Suncoast, where she led the integration of the community investment process, partnership strategies and regional contract management process across the organization’s five-county footprint. She also was selected part of Leadership Tampa 2022, which is coordinated by the Tampa Bay … Read more
It’s a love story fitting for 2022. Two professionals keep running into each other at networking events, a first unofficial date at a Tampa Bay Lightning game. Love blossoms, resulting in marriage and a blended family. Greg Zolkos and Nicole “Nikki” Stokes, now Zolkos, married on Nov. 27 and spent their Christmas holiday in St. … Read more
It’s like the internet meme of where it started and where it ended up. Danny Persaud had dreams of attending Florida State University but he didn’t have a way to pay for it. So, he slept in his car outside of campus for three weeks, looking for work and trying to figure out how to … Read more
Hands Across the Bay is hosting a VIP grand opening of its first Donation & Empowerment Center tonight at 13247 38th Street N., Suite A, Clearwater. This event is a VIP private grand opening but the center said it will host private tours for whoever would like to visit the center after it opens to … Read more
Tampa Bay Business and Wealth named the winners, and honored the finalists, of the inaugural Philanthropist of the Year Awards in November. Click through the gallery below to see photos from the event. More than 250 people were in attendance. Presenting sponsors included the Community Foundation Tampa Bay, Pilot Bank and Sabal Trust. Gold sponsor … Read more
► The Realm Restaurant Group announced the reopening of Sage Restaurant, at 1216 First St., Sarasota, after being closed for over a year for COVID-19. (Pictured above) ► Firmo Construction, a commercial construction management firm headquartered in Sarasota, is expanding its operations in southwest Florida with the opening of a new office in downtown Fort … Read more
In 1993, I became both impressed and enamored with two adorable and smart middle-school sisters, at the Boys and Girls Club, on the perilous Westside of my hometown of Chicago. I was honored to have been asked to serve on my first board of directors there. Since then, it has been exceedingly rewarding to work … Read more
Tampa Bay Business and Wealth named the winners of the inaugural Philanthropist of the Year Awards Tuesday night, at Armature Works, in Tampa. More than 250 people were in attendance. Presenting sponsors included the Community Foundation Tampa Bay, Pilot Bank and Sabal Trust. Gold sponsor was Valspar Championship. Winners included: Covid Hero Brooke Palmer Kuhl … Read more
Community leaders in the Tampa Bay area will be working together, this spring, to build a home for a local family, in Pinellas Park Habitat for Humanity of Pinellas and West Pasco Counties launched its inaugural CEO Build, led by honorary chairs Mindy Grossman, president and CEO of WW (formerly Weight Watchers) and Bill Brand, … Read more
It’s a New Year’s tradition of football—frolicking and fierce competition. The Outback Bowl, tracing its roots in the Tampa Bay area over 30 years, matches up the Southeastern Conference vs. the Big Ten, a single event to kick off the year with sport. But it’s really in the behind-the-scenes impact, for local charities, where the … Read more
