Funding

Funding/Financials

Grants

Learn and Serve Tampa Inc was created and has operated with small donations from family, friends, and colleagues. Since August of 2022, we have received funding as a Lead Agency grantee through Youth Service America (YSA). This funding is restricted to supporting youth service activities on three days of national service. We also received a grant from Whole Foods Foundation to build a garden at Burnett Middle School and a grant through Digital Lift to fund instructional technology. We are always looking for fundraising opportunities such as the Community Bag Program. If you have ideas, please share!

We are in need of donations to continue operations! Please consider supporting our efforts. Direct Donations can be made through GiveButter or by check to: Learn and Serve Tampa, Inc, 10118 Cleghorn Dr., San Antonio, FL 33576.

Donations

Donations to Learn and Serve Tampa Inc are needed for general operating funds or capacity building, which will enable us to maintain a website, pay for insurance, and ensure we can continue to offer our service and programs as a whole. However, donations can also be earmarked for specific projects, such as Veterans Day service-learning projects, or the Burnett garden project.

In addition to direct donations, consider event sponsorships and support for grant opportunities through your business or corporation. In many cases, an employee must initiate the request for sponsorship or Letter on Intent for grant applications.

Business Sponsorships and Corporate Grants

Expertise

Also consider supporting Learn and Serve Tampa, Inc., with your knowledge and experience. Learn and Serve Tampa, Inc is in need of accounting, marketing, and technical support. As students begin to investigate issues, they can learn from guest speakers who have expertise in related fields. We are also looking for working and corporate board members!

Dave "Stupid" McElroy of Flags of the Fallen Escorts speaks with BPA students about his service to honor Gold Star Families at monuments established through the Woody Williams Foundation.

Volunteers

Workscapes is recruiting volunteers for our upcoming Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service at McKay Bay Nature Preserve. They will join over 200 youth volunteers, many families, and veteran groups who will help restore the park.

Discounted or In-Kind Services

These business partners have offered great prices and amazing services.

Banners, Signs, and More

You guessed it. Labels.

For Lifting and Lighting!

Our go-to is North Dale Mabry #0256

Lead Agency Grant

Learn and Serve Tampa Inc has been awarded a YSA Lead Agency Grant for the 2022-2023 grant cycle. The purpose of the grant is to empower youth through volunteer and community service-projects on the three National Days of Service. On September 10, 2022, in recognition of Patriot Day, Learn and Serve Tampa, Inc. hosted a FREE Youth Service Leadership Summit to train youth leaders from the local area so they may return to their communities to plan for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service and Global Youth Service Day in 2023.

NYLC Education in Action

Greco Middle School and Williams Middle School are participating in the NYLC Education in Action Grant Program and are focusing their Equity in Education projects on the Green Team initiative. Greco AVID students held a poster competition and now have six posters that will be used around the school to remind students what goes in their brand new recycling bins.

NYLC Project Ignition

Middleton High School and Gaither High School are participating in the NYLC Project Ignition Grant Program and are focusing their projects on Distracted Driving Awareness Campaigns. Middleton help an Safe driver awareness campaign the week before their prom. Students were asked to read and sign the pledge banner, and were then presented with a Safe Driver wristband. tania and Roger, project leaders, invited the Tampa Police department to talk with Drivers education students about safe driving. Students got to participate in a DUI Rodeo.

Learn and Serve Tampa, Inc. has been awarded a $200 grant to support the Burnett Middle School AVID Garden project! Funds will be used to purchase portable planting bags and potting soil for students' seedlings. Ms. Graham Allen will keep them over the summer so they can be planted in the fall.