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As inflation soars, back-to-school giveaway lightens load for Manatee parents

BRADENTON, Fla. – As local families plan their back-to-school shopping trips, price hikes have some of them crunching the numbers a little harder, adding stress to the annual spending spree. Wed…

Florida Libraries Journal

The Florida Libraries Journal has featured the Soar in 4 community collaboration on pages 20 and 21. Read it here….

Soar in 4 Manatee County drive thru supply event helped more than a hundred families

By Daniela Hurtado | September 2, 2020 at 10:38 PM EDT – Updated September 2 at 10:55 PM BRADENTON, Fla. (WWSB) The Soar in 4 Manatee County drive through event on Wednesday afternoon drew a lar…

Soar in 4’s partnership with Family Heritage House/SCF published in the Herald-Tribune!

Family Heritage House and SCF Celebrate 50th anniversary of Coretta Scott King Book Awards Community Submission by Jamie M. Smith Posted Oct 31, 2019 at 1:38 PM The Family Heritage House Museum a…

Family Heritage House/SCF Celebrate 50th Anniversary of Coretta Scott King Book Awards with Soar in 4!

Family Heritage House and SCF Celebrate 50th Anniversary of Coretta Scott King Book Awards (Bradenton, Fla., Oct. 22, 2019) — The Family Heritage House Museum at State College of Florida, Sarasota…

Manatee Schools partner for summer learning opportunities – East County Observer

Manatee Schools partner for summer learning opportunities East County – The School District of Manatee County, the Manatee County Public Library System and the Bishop Museum of Science and Natur…

WEDU PBS & PBS KIDS in Partnership with Soar in 4 for Summer Learning Program!

Join WEDU PBS for a series of special summer learning celebrations in partnership with the Soar in 4 program, the School District of Manatee County, the Bishop Museum of Science and Nature, and Manate…

Soar in 4 featured in June/July 2019 Issue of NEXTGEN Magazine!

View the photo spread: here View the entire June/July 2019 NEXTGEN online interactive issue: here

Memoir on parenting also a ‘love letter to single moms’

Joy Thomas Moore, the author of ‘The Power of Presence,’ wants readers to engage with their children SARASOTA — Joy Thomas Moore says she isn’t a parenting guru. As a single mother who raised …

Suncoast residents take part in the Life on the Edge Poverty simulation

Step Up Suncoast and the Manatee County School District partnered up for the Life on the Edge Poverty simulation. Ream more on SNN News: https://www.snntv.com/story/39857753/suncoast-residents-take-pa…

What is a poverty simulation?

Manatee employees get lesson in empathy with ‘Life on the Edge’ Read more in the Bradenton Herald: https://www.bradenton.com/news/local/education/article225101240.html

Humbled by a Life Lived on the Edge

The workshop in Bradenton provokes anxiety, guilt and a determination to lend a hand. Read the article in the Bradenton Herald: https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20190129/seidman-poverty-simulation-i…

Soar in 4 featured in NextGen Magazine

Read the article: here Read the entire issue on the NextGen interactive issue: here

District Leaders with Hildy Gottlieb

District and community change makers were invited to An Exploration of Catalytic Thinking with Hildy Gottlieb hosted by the Patterson Foundation. Catalytic Thinking is a set of practices that make exp…

Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading Honored at National Gathering

The awards highlight communitywide efforts focused on third grade reading proficiency SARASOTA, Fla. (July 31, 2018) The Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading received broad recognition at GLR Wee…

Soar in 4 on MySuncoast 7

BRADENTON, FL (WWSB) – Half of the students in Manatee County Elementary Schools are reading below grade level. To help improve these staggering statistics, the district partnered with the Manat…