Saundra Amrhein

In many community discussions around the housing crisis in the Sarasota region, one key population that helps define the area often gets overlooked: artists.

Hundreds of area nonprofits are gearing up for the 10th Giving Challenge, a 24-hour online event hosted by the Community Foundation of Sarasota County that supports programs and causes helping thousands of local residents.

For the second summer in a row, hundreds of families across the area will have access to high-quality learning and child care through United Way Suncoast's Summer Care Program – with even greater opportunities this year for tutoring and scholarships.

If there is one thing that the new head of the Early Learning Coalition of Sarasota County wants to convey to thousands of working families in the area, it is this: additional state child care help is available for parents who step forward to ask for it.

The United Way Suncoast (UWS) announced Tuesday that it has selected Kourtney Sanchez, the chief impact officer for the NFL Tampa Bay Buccaneers, as its next CEO.

A new grant to the Early Learning Coalition of Sarasota County is adding muscle to its unique in-house apprentice program for teachers, strengthening its mission to build up a highly trained child care workforce in the region.

Building upon its successful Saturday school program, Sarasota's Dreamers Academy has announced the launch of its new Dreamers Summer Academy to help prevent "summer slide" and to accelerate student learning into the next school year.

Amid ever-rising costs of living, a new study shows that married couples with children in Sarasota County are increasingly sinking below the bare minimum it takes to survive.

Times were already tight this past year when a persistent eye infection kept Eureka Wiley from being able to go to work.

Sarasota Herald-Tribune Weeks after Congress passed a major federal housing bill into law, state and local experts continue to dissect the