Gold Award Girl Scouts make positive impacts on our local communities by addressing some of our most pressing issues, including maternal mental health, honoring military heroes, racial inequality within the education system, water safety, managing grief after loss, and student mental wellness. Gold Aw...
They may become a bit rattled when another teenager acquires an automatic weapon and shoots up a school. Or if he turns the weapon on himself and takes his own life. Then, and only then, they start talking about our dreadfully underfunded community and school mental health services. Or maybe...
Laura Bush sends her best. She's spent a lot of time down here, and so have I. (Applause.) The librarians in this part of the world are especially grateful; after all, the Laura Bush Foundation has helped refurbish a lot of school libraries up and down the Gulf Coast. She sends her...
Altony Lee brings innovation to philanthropic giving, from helping Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) accept Bitcoin for scholarship dollars to launching the university’s first Give Day campaign, which raised more than $1.3 million. His efforts have helped increase annual giving to over $20 mill...
“trade kits,” have often masked the diversity of ways in which Spaniards and Florida Indians interacted in the 16th century, as well as the ways in which European objects were acquired. Since Spanish ships wrecked with great frequency on the Florida coast, native peoples had repeated ...
(a phenomenon known as the station wagon effect). He made a mayday call. The US Coast Guard (USCG) responded and found all four men unconscious but alive. The USCG transported them to the hospital and towed the boat back to dock. The four survived. (Source: personal observations by the...
The public health impacts of climate change in U.S. Gulf Coast states—Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida—may be especially severe and further exacerbated by a range of threats facing the coastline areas, including severe erosion, subsidence, and—given the amount of energy ...