The Glasser/Schoenbaum Human Services Center empowers non-profits to closely network with other agencies and create synergistic energy towards the life changing opportunities we all want for our clients and those in our community.
The Giving Challenge is an exciting 24-hour online giving event that connects 700+ nonprofit organizations with passionate donors and community members to support diverse causes and create enduring impact in Sarasota, Manatee, Charlotte, and DeSoto counties. The online event is hosted by the Community Foundation of Sarasota County, with giving strengthened by The Patterson Foundation.
The 24-hour event takes place April 26-27, 2022, 12pm-12pm.
On Tuesday, April 26, 4:30-6:30pm, Glasser/Schoenbaum will host a campus-wide event to encourage support for all 18 campus partners during the Giving Challenge.
There will be food and refreshments, music, and an atmosphere of celebration to bring our human services network together with donors, turning the online donation into an interactive experience. All are welcome to attend, including campus staff, board members and donors, volunteers, and supporters of all kinds. This celebration of nonprofits serving our most vulnerable residents is a great way to get involved in the 2022 Giving Challenge!
Our mission is to connect, support, and sustain a network of human services for a stronger community. We are hosting this event to provide outreach, awareness, and an in-person fundraising opportunity for our tenant partner agencies, as an added benefit for their Giving Challenge campaigns.
We encourage all partner agencies to inspire support for their incredible and critical human services missions through their online Giving Challenge campaigns. Each agency has its own goal and we hope to help them reach it!
Glasser/Schoenbaum has a goal too. Our fundraising efforts in the Giving Challenge are dedicated directly back to the agencies we serve on our Campus of Caring. In 2018, we established the Shapiro Memorial Fund upon the passing of Lifetime Board Member Sam Shapiro, to provide each of our tenant partners up to $1,000 in a given year, for any mission-related expense they choose. We have seen these dollars go to specific needs like school supplies for clients, but also to needs that are harder to fund with restricted grants and donations, such as technology fees, marketing assets, and professional development.
The Glasser/Schoenbaum Human Services Center empowers non-profits to closely network with other agencies and create synergistic energy towards the life changing opportunities we all want for our clients and those in our community.
Real estate is one of the greatest costs in a business budget. Our partnership with the Glasser Schoenbaum Human Services Center allows more money to go towards our mission. And what better place to house our office than on a campus with nineteen other outreach agencies.
We are a small and young organization and having the ability to network and partner with other community organizations is key to the quality and impact of our work. In addition to the affordable space that The Glasser/Schoenbaum Human Services Center provides to all of us, it inspires us to use this collaborative model as we work to empower our students and their families.
I can't fully express how wonderful it is to take a client by the hand and walk them no more than a couple hundred feet from our office to another agency that can help them when they are in crisis.
As a small organization with a staff of two, employee safety was a big consideration when we were looking for office space. We did not want our employees to be in a place where they were alone. Being on the GSHSC campus has been great because there is a whole community of like-minded professionals.
