{"id":265297,"date":"2026-05-10T01:23:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T01:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/265297\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T01:23:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T01:23:21","slug":"discover-6-upcoming-charitable-events-to-attend-in-tampa-and-st-petersburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/265297\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover 6 upcoming charitable events to attend in Tampa and St. Petersburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">May 16: Storybook Ball: \u201cThe Princess and the Frog,\u201d which benefits Ronald McDonald House Tampa Bay. $500. 6 p.m. Renaissance Tampa International Plaza Hotel. lsuprenand@rmhctampabay.org. <a href=\"https:\/\/ronaldmcdonaldhousetb.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:ronaldmcdonaldhousetb.org.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;ronaldmcdonaldhousetb.org.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">ronaldmcdonaldhousetb.org.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">May 16: Hispanic Professional Women\u2019s Association\u2019s Scholarship Awards Gala. $175. 6-10 p.m. TPepin\u2019s Hospitality Centre. <a href=\"https:\/\/hpwatampa.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:hpwatampa.org.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;hpwatampa.org.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">hpwatampa.org.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">May 16: St. Pete Gala: \u201cRainbow Disco,\u201d which benefits Equality Florida. $250. 5:30-10 p.m. The Coliseum. <a href=\"https:\/\/eqfl.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:eqfl.org.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;eqfl.org.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">eqfl.org.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">May 16: Wishmaker\u2019s Ball: \u201cA Night in the Tropics,\u201d which benefits Make-a-Wish Southern Florida. Entertainment by Old Dominion. Sponsorships start at $8,000. 6 p.m. JW Marriott Tampa Water Street. 813-288-2600, Ext. 204. <a href=\"https:\/\/wishmakersballtampa.net\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:wishmakersballtampa.net.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;wishmakersballtampa.net.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">wishmakersballtampa.net.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">May 30: Old Florida Soir\u00e9e, which benefits Pathfinder Outdoor Education\u2019s Youth Scholarship Fund. $40. 7-10:30 p.m. St. Petersburg Shuffleboard Club. <a href=\"https:\/\/pathfinderoutdooreducation.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:pathfinderoutdooreducation.org.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;pathfinderoutdooreducation.org.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">pathfinderoutdooreducation.org.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">June 6: World Ocean Day Soir\u00e9e, which benefits The Florida Aquarium. $195. 6:30-10:30 p.m. The Florida Aquarium. <a href=\"https:\/\/flaquarium.org\/soiree\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:flaquarium.org\/soiree.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;flaquarium.org\/soiree.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">flaquarium.org\/soiree.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Contact Amy Scherzer at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/arc\/outboundfeeds\/tbtrss\/excludes\/mailto:amyscherzersdiary@gmail.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:amyscherzersdiary@gmail.com;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;amyscherzersdiary@gmail.com&quot;}\" class=\"link \">amyscherzersdiary@gmail.com<\/a> to have yourevent listed on the calendar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 16: Storybook Ball: \u201cThe Princess and the Frog,\u201d which benefits Ronald McDonald House Tampa Bay. $500. 6&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[25710,114253,3922,202,204,203,199,201,200,114254,16971],"class_list":["post-265297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-jw-marriott-tampa-water-street","tag-renaissance-tampa-international-plaza-hotel","tag-ronald-mcdonald-house","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-storybook-ball","tag-the-florida-aquarium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}