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At the Selby Foundation, we hear students and organizations using their voices to increase opportunity for friends, colleagues, and strangers.

Sometimes voice takes the form of advocating for neighbors impacted by storms. Other times, it shows up in sharing lived experiences or knowledge about issues in our communities. It's a beautiful thing, trusting ourselves and others enough to use our voices.

We are moved by the various ways our Selby Scholars and community partners make a difference, including:

• Having the courage to share vulnerable moments and how these moments build personal resilience and strength.
• Simply listening to people to understand--even when it takes extra time.
• Connecting colleagues and peers to resources that help them advance.
• Making conscious efforts to seek information behind the issues.
• Being mindful of complex circumstances while remaining positive about the future we can share when everyone's voice is heard.
• Voting.

Your voice is important. Thank you for the ways you use it.

Susie Bowie

President & CEO

William G. and Marie Selby Foundation

Students learn to use their voices while exploring post-secondary education during summer and school-year programs at Links to Success

There are numbers to back up the human need, employment, revenues, and undeniable value of nonprofits in our communities. Are you accessing these powerful data centers?

• Community Foundation of Sarasota County's community indicators dashboard
• Florida Nonprofit Alliance's nonprofit data dashboard
• Florida Division of Arts & Culture's economic impact of the arts data
• The Selby Foundation's and Community Foundation of Sarasota County's State of Scholarships Regional Assessment
• United Way's 2024 ALICE report

Whether you use this data to inform your program development, write successful grants, or advocate for your mission, it is available to you. What other sources are you using? Let us know.

Rebuilding Together Tampa Bay (RTTB) knows that making a true difference in a community requires you to be in the community--together with residents and neighbors.

With an investment from the Selby Foundation, the organization has mobilized its DeSoto-based team more efficiently to reach clients with homes in desperate need of repairs, rehabs, and disaster recovery services in the wake of hurricanes and other storms.

The $37,920 grant helped to purchase a vehicle to transport supplies, tools, hurricane kits and to conduct home assessments and projects with greater ease across DeSoto County. The support has further empowered RTTB’s staff to keep neighbors in need housed in safe, healthy, habitable, and affordable homes for years to come. Learn more about the organization.

An investment in Rebuilding Together Tampa Bay is enhancing home repairs in DeSoto County for homeowners impacted by storm events.

We were delighted to hear from 2013 Selby Scholar and University of Florida Alumnus Emily Hunt, CFP, who reached out to share the start of her career journey and reflections about her college experience. Emily feels right at home working in private wealth at AllianceBernstein's Tampa office where she started just three days after graduation. She has now been with the company for more than 7 years. Read more about Emily.

2013 Selby Scholar and University of Florida Alumnus Emily Hunt, CFP

• October 1: Small and Mighty Grant Application Opens
• December 1: Spring 2025 Traditional Grant Application Opens

Learn more online at SelbyFdn.org.

Are you a Selby Scholar from years past? Have you been involved in the lives of students through the Selby Foundation? In our history since 1955, many people have been supported...and many people have made a difference. We want to know your story.

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