Cowford Ball a smash, tickets sold out
This year’s Cowford Ball was special, it was sold out early and the crowd was enthused to grow the notoriety amongst a new, energized group of volunteers. The event committee was largely made up of folks that had never attended a Cowford Ball in the past. The show of support from both businesses, volunteers […]
New zoning ‘win-win’ for tenants, neighbors and new owner of former Miller Electric HQ
The Jacksonville City Council finalized new zoning and land use for the former Miller Electric headquarters in the Five Points neighborhood of Riverside south of Interstate 10 along Roselle Street between Copeland and Osceola streets on September 13. The new zoning is a flexible category called planned unit development (PUD) with business park (BP) land […]
Florida Forum celebrates 30th Season for Women’s Board
Speaker’s relevance to Ukraine War, Russian corruption on display Conspiracy. Crime. Corruption. The Women’s Board of Wolfson Children’s Hospital kicked off the Florida Forum’s season with Bill Browder, Sept. 20, with stories that seem stranger than fiction. Mr. Browder entertained the crowd at the Jacksonville Performing Arts Center, his timely talks of corruption painted an […]
Sharing vision for the future
Rotary Club of Jacksonville hosts visiting ophthalmologists in Williams Visionary Scholars Project Doctors Jean Claude Niyonzima of Burundi and Duke Mataka of Tonga spoke of their countries, cultures and experiences in ophthalmology at the Sept. 26 meeting of the Rotary Club of Jacksonville. Niyonzima and Mataka spent just over a week in Jacksonville, visiting and […]
Community Foundation launches A.L. Lewis Black Opportunity & Impact Fund
On Aug. 19, the Community Foundation of Northeast Florida launched the A.L. Lewis Black Opportunity and Impact Fund, a new collective giving fund “to attract and deploy assets in the community to ignite transformational change in Jacksonville’s Black communities.” Conversations surrounding the fund first began in 2020 with community leaders to explore what could be […]
Freed to Run draws big rivalries for Legal Aid
Marathon from Tallahassee to Jacksonville endows medical legal partnership Members of the Jacksonville Bar Association (JBA) representing Big Law, alternative dispute resolution and solo/small firms are entering into an epic battle to see who can garner the most support for Freed to Run 6.0, which is expected to fully fund an endowment for Jacksonville Area […]
Ulysses Owens, Jr. Selected for the Ann McDonald Baker Art Ventures Award
Grammy award-winning performer, producer and educator uses music to empower Jacksonville youth Grammy Award-winning jazz percussionist, producer and educator Ulysses Owens Jr. was recently named the 2022 Ann McDonald Baker Art Ventures Award recipient by The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida. The award, bestowed annually, recognizes a gifted local artist whose work brings distinction to […]
Jordan joins Baptist Health’s Familial Brain Aneurysm Study to help others, ends up saving her own life
Threat discovered during state-funded research screening to assess the hereditary probability of brain aneurysms in families. Pamela Jordan, 61, wasn’t having any symptoms, exercised three days a week and lived a healthy lifestyle; but, because of her family history of aneurysm and stroke, she agreed to participate in Baptist Health’s Familial Brain Aneurysm Study. Backed […]
