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Community Voices: Holocaust Museum’s mission takes on urgency

-Karen Chassin, St. Petersburg Foundation For the board, staff and supporters of the Florida Holocaust Museum, it’s a daunting moment in time. Antisemitic incidents are on the rise locally and nationally, including vandalism and threats …

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Community Voices: Pandemic pet adoptions are for keeps in Tampa Bay

-Karen Chassin, St. Petersburg Foundation   Welcome to the Catalyst’s Community Voices platform. We’ve curated community leaders and thinkers from all parts of our great city to speak on issues that affect us all. Visit …

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Community Voices: A Collective Impact approach to community development in Lealman

Karen Chassin – St. Petersburg Foundation The Lealman community, an unincorporated area north and west of the city of St. Petersburg, has been studied and surveyed many times over the past two decades. Consistently, the …

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County, St. Petersburg Foundation partner to transform Lealman Exchange

-Karen Chassin, St. Petersburg Foundation The Lealman Exchange, a 77,000 square-foot, six-acre campus built to provide programs and services to meet the needs of an underserved community, is now under new management thanks to an …

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Metropolitan Ministries and Metacity partner on local NFT drop for charity

At its annual “Business Breakfast of Champions” event, Metropolitan Ministries became one of the first Tampa Bay nonprofits to raise charitable dollars via a drop of Nonfungible Tokens (NFTs), raising $32,000 to fight hunger. “Metropolitan …

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