Campus of Caring Dedicates Building to Community Foundation

August 2, 2021 – Sarasota

In recognition of a decades-long partnership, The Glasser/Schoenbaum Human Services Center has dedicated a building on its five-acre campus in honor of the Community Foundation of Sarasota County‘s Zella I. and Junius F. Allen Fund.

The Community Foundation has long supported Glasser/Schoenbaum and its many tenant partners through grantmaking, partnership development, and as a trusted resource to provide direct assistance to many of our community’s most vulnerable residents. A notable example of the many ways the two organizations work together is seen through Season of Sharing, the Community Foundation’s 21-year-old emergency funding program. As a fiscal agent in partnership with the Community Foundation, Glasser/Schoenbaum processes an estimated 30% of requests for this critical assistance, which provides stability through rent and utility payments, as well as childcare and transportation costs.

Additionally, co-founder Dr. Kay Glasser began building an endowment at the Community Foundation shortly after opening the campus in the 1990s. Today, that endowment supports long-term sustainability for the Campus of Caring and its 17 nonprofit tenant partners. During times of crisis like the coronavirus pandemic, the value of an endowment becomes paramount.

“I’m so proud that our partnership is now more visible to the public,” says Glasser/Schoenbaum’s CEO, Dr. Kameron Hodgens, “Our 30-year partnership with the Community Foundation illustrates our shared interest in supporting a healthy and happy quality of life for our region.” 

“The last year and a half has redefined what it means to be human in the human services sector,” says Kirsten Russell, Vice President of Community Impact at the Community Foundation of Sarasota County. “The care that Glasser/Schoenbaum has shared with our most vulnerable is – by every measure – as human as it comes.”

About The Glasser/Schoenbaum Human Services Center: Our mission is to connect, support and sustain a network of human service nonprofits for a stronger community. The Glasser/Schoenbaum Human Services Center is called the “Campus of Caring” because it is home to 18 nonprofit health and human services agencies that help low income and at-risk adults, children and families. It is a 501c3 nonprofit organization.

About the Community Foundation of Sarasota County: The Community Foundation of Sarasota County is a public charity founded in 1979 by the Southwest Florida Estate Planning Council as a resource for caring individuals and the causes they support, enabling them to make a charitable impact on the community. With assets of $421 million in more than 1,500 charitable funds, the Community Foundation awarded grants and scholarships totaling $48.9 million dollars last year in the areas of education, the arts, health and human services, civic engagement, animal welfare and the environment. Since its founding, the Community Foundation has been able to grant more than $323 million to area nonprofit organizations to our community thanks to the generosity of charitable individuals, families, and businesses. For more information, visit www.CFSarasota.org or call (941) 955-3000.