Spirit of Pensacola Award

Impact 100
Linda A. Hoffman - President

With the help of a small board of directors, this organization has grown from 233 members when it was formed four years ago to 472 last year. It has awarded grants to community groups totaling about $1.3 million so far.

The organization's goal is to offer effective philanthropy through increased awareness, education and high-impact giving. The beneficiaries of the group's good works are children, the elderly, indigent and ailing.

Projects include the Good Samaritan Clinic, which serves the health-care needs of the working poor in Santa Rosa County; ARC Gateway, which serves developmentally disabled children and adults; Bravo for Kids, which helps provide musical instruments to middle schools students in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties; and the Northwest Florida Blood Center, which was in critical need of a new bloodmobile.

Published Feburary 20, 2008 - Pensacola News Journal