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Tim Johnson, the volunteer chairman of the A.L. Lewis Black Opportunity & Impact Fund, listens to Sharon Coon during a reception May 15, 2025, celebrating the 40 organizations that received funding from the fund this year. Coon is the founder of the Friends of Brentwood Library, a nonprofit that will use funding from the Lewis fund to sponsor a writer's festival this summer. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

A.L. Lewis fund expands grants as nonprofits face uncertainty

The A.L. Lewis Black Opportunity & Impact Fund will award two rounds of grants this year.…

By Will Brown

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Donors Vince and Linda Ferrigno announce the expansion plans of Downtown Ecumenical Services Council on April 4, 2025. | Michelle Corum, Jacksonville Today

Ecumenical services council expands to help more people

The Downtown Ecumenical Services Council is moving to larger offices less than a mile away.…

By Michelle Corum

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Mayor Donna Deegan discusses nonprofit funding on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. | News4Jax

Mayor seeks to improve oversight of nonprofit funding

Mayor Donna Deegan has filed a bill to City Council that she says would increase transparency in nonprofit funding.…

By Dan Scanlan

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City Council President Ron Salem, left, discusses the issue of first-time homelessness in Jacksonville on Friday, Sept. 1, 2023. Changing Homelessness CEO Dawn Gilman and board Chairman Brad Russell listen. | Casmira Harrison, Jacksonville Today

September 1, 2023

Homelessness program gets boost from council president

Council President Ron Salem has invested $13,000 toward a Changing Homelessness pilot program that will help those on the brink…

By Casmira Harrison

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