71% of the people in an annual homeless count were experiencing homelessness for the first time — often because they couldn’t afford their rent.

An $8 million children’s garden would be the first phase of a new master plan for the Jacksonville Arboretum & Botanical Gardens.

Lessons learned at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville could lead to treatment or even a cure for Alzheimer’s.

Changing Homelessness, the lead homeless prevention agency for Clay, Duval and Nassau counties, is seeking volunteers for an annual federally mandated survey of unsheltered people in the three counties. With the past two years of survey results limited by the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2023 Point in Time count will be “especially critical,” according to Dawn Gilman, CEO of the nonprofit.

Jacksonville-based Changing Homelessness has received a $2.5 million grant — the largest in the agency’s nearly 50-year history of serving struggling families in Duval and Nassau counties — from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Day 1 Families Fund. The nonprofit will use the money to “leverage and improve existing family programs and fill in identified gaps,” CEO Dawn Gilman said. “It

The nonprofit sector is the third most trusted institution in the Jacksonville area, just behind individual volunteers and the military, according to a recent poll commissioned for the 20th anniversary of the Nonprofit Center of Northeast Florida. About 67% of the 1,023 people surveyed in seven counties trusted nonprofits “a fair amount” or “a great deal,” compared with 72% for

Jacksonville City Councilman Rory Diamond has announced he will step down as CEO of K9s for Warriors, the Ponte Vedra Beach nonprofit that trains service dogs for veterans. His last day is Nov. 10. His successor will be Carl Cricco, who is currently the organization’s chief marketing and development officer. In a Facebook post Thursday, Diamond said he needed to