{"id":382900,"date":"2026-08-27T20:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T20:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/382900\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T20:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T20:50:07","slug":"kearney-center-receives-250000-donation-to-renovate-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/382900\/","title":{"rendered":"Kearney Center receives $250,000 donation to renovate facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTH TALLAHASSEE, FL (WTXL) \u2014 <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/kearneycenter.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Kearney Center<\/a> in South Tallahassee received a combined $250,000 donation from local philanthropists Teresa Radzinski and Rick Kearney to fund facility renovations and improve services for people experiencing homelessness.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH FULL REPORT BELOW:<\/p>\n<p>Kearney Center receives $250,000 donation to renovate facility for people experiencing homelessness<\/p>\n<p>The money will go toward renovations inside the center, including new paint and flooring. The center helps more than 2,000 people overnight in a year, making the improvements important for the people who rely on its services.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Sonya Wilson said the goal is to treat the improvements like rehabilitating a home \u2014 making the space more functional and comfortable for the people who use it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is all about them. Everything we do here is about our clients. It&#8217;s not about me it&#8217;s not about our board. It&#8217;s about supporting our most vulnerable population. We don&#8217;t do it here once they move we&#8217;re still a partner to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The renovations are part of a larger effort to improve the center&#8217;s ability to provide shelter, healthcare access and case management. The center serves people experiencing homelessness across the Big Bend, helping them work toward more stable living situations.<\/p>\n<p>Center leaders say the donation will allow them to begin addressing some of the facility&#8217;s needs, though they acknowledge more improvements are still needed.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Instagram <\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTH TALLAHASSEE, FL (WTXL) \u2014 The Kearney Center in South Tallahassee received a combined $250,000 donation from local&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[242,509,26876,153579,27468,39890,232,234,233,153580,562],"class_list":["post-382900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-abc-27","tag-big-bend","tag-kearney-center","tag-rick-kearney","tag-sonya-wilson","tag-south-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-terssa-radzinski","tag-wtxl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382900","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=382900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}