• Supporting Healthcare Workers:
• At Baptist Healthcare: Make our caregivers smile! Email Foundation@bhcpns.org with your encouraging words, pictures, and videos to support our frontline health care workers.
• At Baptist Healthcare: Donate food for our front-line clinicians and team members in the hospitals and medical parks that are working around the clock. Licensed restaurants and food vendors – please email Foundation@bhcpns.org to volunteer.
• At Ascension Sacred Heart: Ascension Sacred Heart is accepting donations for personal protective equipment (PPE) and other supplies. Individuals or companies interested in making a donation should call 850-416-4058 to leave a message and a member of our team will work directly with them to assess the donation and make arrangements.
• At West Florida: Here's a way you can show your support from the safety of your home – and even provide some entertainment for the kids!
• 1. Decorate the Healthcare Heroes heart (Heart).
• 2. Cut it out and hang it in your window, from your mailbox or your front door.
• 3. Snap a photo (if you want to include the family, awesome!) and share the love on social media – make sure to tag West Florida Hospital.
• We will share the photos with our team who have enjoyed hearing from the community during these busy days. Thank you for your show of support!
• We are looking into further ways to support Ascension Sacred Heart Hospital and our other healthcare systems and will update you when we learn of opportunities.
• Donate Blood: If you are healthy and able to donate blood, please follow the links to these two organizations for instructions and how to schedule an appointment: American Red Cross and One Blood.
• Feeding Ministries:
• Bridging the Gap Collection: Thank you for your continued support! Our neighbors continue to need hygiene supplies (including individually packaged wet wipes), sunscreen, and snack food items (snack bars or other easily carried items). For those who would like to donate supplies, please email Rev. Katie at kathryn@christ-church.net.
• Feeding the Gulf Coast Volunteering: Food Distribution for Local Youth at Libraries – to volunteer (Monday-Friday 11am-1pm), contact Todd at tjhumble@mywfpl.com. Or volunteer to sort and pack emergency food boxes at Milton Warehouse – Volunteer.
• Waterfront Mission: For the health and safety of all at Waterfront, they are only accepting donations of food through delivery orders to the Mission – Grocery List and Instructions. Additional items needed: Rice, dried beans, pasta and sauce, large cans of vegetables, jars of peanut butter, sandwich bread, disposable plates and utensils, and lunch bags.
• UWF Argo Food Pantry: The Argo Pantry provides food to currently enrolled UWF students in need of assistance. The Argo Pantry accepts nonperishable food and personal care items. You may also send items directly to the Argo Pantry via Amazon. For a list of needs and where at UWF to bring donations: UWF Argo Pantry.
• Manna Food Pantries: Manna is unable to accept donations of food at this time. We will update you as to when they will be accepting food donations again.