{"id":13926,"date":"2016-04-08T10:54:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T14:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/?p=13926"},"modified":"2016-04-08T10:54:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T14:54:14","slug":"southwest-florida-community-foundation-launches-fund-for-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/2016\/04\/08\/southwest-florida-community-foundation-launches-fund-for-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Florida Community Foundation launches Fund for the Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/SWFLCF.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11486\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11486\" src=\"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/SWFLCF.jpg\" alt=\"SWFLCF\" width=\"342\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. (April 8, 2016) \u2013 Just in time for Earth Day on April 22, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridacommunity.com\" target=\"_blank\">Southwest Florida Community Foundation<\/a> has launched the Fund for the Environment in Southwest Florida.<\/p>\n<p>All monies raised through this multi-donor fund will be given back out to the local community through nonprofit organizations with projects focused on the long-term sustainability of the Southwest Florida environment.<\/p>\n<p>Donations starting at $10 are now being accepted online at\u00a0<u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridacommunity.com\/environment-fund\">www.floridacommunity.com\/environment-fund<\/a><\/u>. The first 22 donors will receive an \u201cenvironment\u201d button in the mail.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Earth Day is celebrating its 46<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0year as a movement that continues to inspire, challenge ideas, ignite passion and motivate people to action. The first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, activated 20 million Americans from all walks of life and is widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement. Today, the Earth Day Network (EDN) works with tens of thousands of partners in 192 countries to broaden, diversify and mobilize the environmental movement. More than one billion people now participate in Earth Day activities each year, making it the largest civic observance in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The Southwest Florida Community Foundation is celebrating its 40<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary in 2016. As leaders, conveners, grant makers and concierges of philanthropy, the Southwest Florida Community Foundation is a foundation built on community leadership with an inspired history of fostering regional change for the common good in Lee, Collier, Charlotte, Hendry and Glades counties. The Community Foundation, founded in 1976, connects donors and their philanthropic aspirations with evolving community needs. With assets of more than $93 million, it has provided more than $63 million in grants and scholarships to the communities it serves. Last year, it granted more than $3.2 million to nonprofit organizations supporting education, animal welfare, arts, healthcare and human services, as well as provided regional community impact grants and scholarship grants.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Southwest Florida Community Foundation, call 239-274-5900 or visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridacommunity.com\/\">www.floridacommunity.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. (April 8, 2016) \u2013 Just in time for Earth Day on April 22, the Southwest Florida Community Foundation has launched the Fund for the Environment in Southwest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[6574,6575,6576,6577,6578,6579,6580,6581,1046,716,590,3983,6582,6583,1047,2348,1297,2882,366,19,3563,2510,21,6584,6585,6586,6587,1590],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}