Organizations That Care: If We Connect We Win


  

Protect Siesta Key


Keep the Country Country

"In the run up to an election where the results could produce radically different scenarios for our area’s future, grassroots groups have been popping up to play whack-a-mole with every emerging threat. But this year, there’s a new phenomenon: These groups aren’t just multiplying, they’re uniting." 

Forget clever slogans and bright T-shirts: We need teamwork to create a better Sarasota - Carrie Seidman

The urgency of the issues facing Sarasota County requires organizations to think outside of their usual comfort zones - they need to CONNECT

Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast

1000 Friends of Florida

Control Growth Now

Suncoast Waterkeeper

Right to Clean Water

Sarasota Bay Estuary Program

ECOSWF

Healthy Gulf

Manasota 88

Sierra Club Manatee-Sarasota Group

Venice Audubon

Florida Birding and Nature Festival

Friends of the Pelicans

North Venice Neighborhood Alliance Inc. 

Warm Mineral Springs

Environmental Conservancy of North Port

Florida Native Plant Society


Peace River Wildlife Center

Friends of Myakka River

CityPac SRQ

Coalition of City Neighborhood Associations

Siesta Key Association of Sarasota, Inc.

SEERD

Lake Sarasota

CONA

WSLR / Fogartyville



Tom Walker Peace and Justice Report

Sarasota News Leader

Cathy Antunes' The Detail

Citizens for Sarasota County

UF IFAS Extension Sarasota County

Florida Panther Project

Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation

Sarasota Citizen Action Network


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