Less Than Ten Days Until Suncoast Remake Learning Days!

In total, 13 counties, cities, and towns in our region have proclaimed April 29 through May 8 Suncoast Remake Learning Days!

During the Suncoast Remake Learning Days Blast Off!, event hosts leveled up their motivation, kindled connections, and celebrated this important milestone with the amazing #SuncoastRemakeDays community.

Suncoast Remake Learning Days is an exciting 10-day, free, regional learning festival from Friday, April 29, 2022, through Sunday, May 8, 2022, in Charlotte, DeSoto, Manatee, and Sarasota counties.

This multi-venue open house will celebrate the joy of adults and children learning side by side.

Suncoast Remake Learning Days, presented by the Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading with the support of TPF, consists of more than 140 events over 10 days hosted by more than 165 organizations.

All the events are free and designed to be hands-on, relevant, and engaging educational experiences for youth of all ages (PreK through high school) and their families, caregivers, and educators.

Suncoast Remake Learning Days gives us all the opportunity to spark learning innovation. This festival is a fun and creative way to establish and affirm parents and families as learning allies.

Learning events are grouped by the following themes: Arts, Maker Spaces, Outdoor Learning, Science, Technology, and Youth Voice. There are also Professional Development opportunities for parents and educators.

We hope you will join us for this learning adventure!

The four-county region of Charlotte, DeSoto, Manatee, and Sarasota counties is blessed with a wealth of bays, rivers, and other inland waters. Coastal flooding linked to higher waters has the potential to significantly impact quality of life for people throughout our region. Understanding the realities posed by rising water levels can help people, organizations, and communities throughout the Suncoast respond appropriately and preserve their opportunities to thrive now and into the future.

The Higher Waters: Suncoast Quality of Life initiative explores these realities by connecting with experts and efforts underway regionally and beyond to understand the effects of rising water levels. As The Patterson Foundation has already uncovered, those efforts are enlightening and vast — producing a wealth of science-based knowledge that can help inform our region’s response to the impact of higher waters on our coastlines and landscapes.

TPF has assembled a dedicated team of consultants, including Initiative Manager Tom Tryon, Initiative Associate Kiarra Louis, and Initiative Strategist Michael Corley who are contributing their talents and experience in strengthening impact — both within TPF and beyond.

The Fervent Four:

Margin & Mission Ignition Welcomes New Cohort Into Earned-Income Consulting Opportunity

The Patterson Foundation created Margin & Mission Ignition to give nonprofits the opportunity to explore, develop, and execute earned-income strategies that can help sustain and enhance the impact of their missions in the community. Since 2015, Margin & Mission Ignition has generated these 30-month consulting engagements to help organizations throughout our region strengthen their thrivability.

The following regional organizations are participating in the new cohort:

• Charlotte County Homeless Coalition
• Resilient Retreat
• Selah Freedom
• Venice MainStreet

Each of the four nonprofits participated in a series of learning labs with No Margin, No Mission prior to opting into the 30-month process to evaluate their readiness to engage in earned-income planning. Throughout the process, No Margin, No Mission will convene the cohort and create opportunities for the organizations to learn and share their experiences in creating and implementing their earned-income plans.