{"id":397601,"date":"2026-09-12T04:17:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T04:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397601\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T04:17:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T04:17:04","slug":"support-tampa-bay-area-charities-at-one-of-these-18-local-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397601\/","title":{"rendered":"Support Tampa Bay area charities at one of these 18 local events"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sept. 15: Ninth Annual Tampa Bay Food Fight benefits Metropolitan Ministries. St. Pete versus Tampa chef team battle. 6-9 p.m. The Coliseum. tampabayfoodfight.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Sept. 19: Tuxes and Tails: “Brazil, Under the Canopy” benefits the Humane Society of Tampa Bay. 5:30 p.m. Tampa Convention Center. tuxestailstampa.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Sept. 19: 20th Annual Pride & Passion: “Go Greek & Roman” benefits the Tampa Museum of Art. Must be 21-plus to attend. 7 p.m. Tampa Museum of Art. tampamuseum.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Sept. 24: Distinguished Citizen Award Dinner benefits Scouting America’s Greater Tampa Bay Area Council. Honors Peter Collins. 5:30 p.m. TPepin’s Hospitality Centre. gtbac.org\/dca26<\/a><\/p>\n

Sept. 26: The Art of Hope Gala benefits Joshua House. 6-10 p.m. Renaissance Tampa International Plaza Hotel. friendsofjoshuahouse.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Oct. 1: Broadway by Candlelight benefits American Stage. 6-8:30 p.m. The James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art. americanstage.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Oct. 2: Art & Aces benefits the Tampa Museum of Art. 7:30-11 p.m. Tampa Museum of Art. tampamuseum.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Oct. 3: Freedom Fund Dinner benefits NAACP Hillsborough. 6 p.m. JW Marriott Tampa Water Street. naacphillsborough.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Oct. 8: USF Women in Leadership & Philanthropy Symposium. Features guest speaker Kimberly Williams-Paisley and honorees Drs. Moira Burke and Sylvia Campbell. 8 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Tampa Marriott Water Street. eventful.usf.edu\/rsvp\/wlp-fall-symposium<\/a><\/p>\n

Oct. 10: 60th Ybor Chamber Gala. 6-9 p.m. Columbia Restaurant Ybor City. members.ybor.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Oct. 10: The Fairytale Ball: “An Evening of Timeless Temptation” benefits the My Fairy Godfathers Foundation. 6:30 p.m. Shanna and Bryan Glazer JCC. myfairygodfathers.net<\/a><\/p>\n

Oct. 10: Big Gala: “Mission: Possible” benefits Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay. 6 p.m. The Motor Enclave. bbbstampabay.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Oct. 16: Dishes & Wishes benefits Make-A-Wish Southern Florida. 7-11 p.m. Armature Works. dishesandwishestampa.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Oct. 17: FARA Energy Ball benefits the Friedreich’s Ataxia Research Alliance and the USF Health Ataxia Research Center. 6 p.m. Tampa Marriott Water Street. curefa.org\/energyball<\/a><\/p>\n

Oct. 17: Eye Ball: “Unmasking Vision \u2013 Revealing the Power of Sight” benefits the Lions World Vision Institute Foundation. 6 p.m. Armature Works. lwvi.org\/eye-ball<\/a><\/p>\n

Oct. 17: Gala for Straz Center. 6 p.m. Morsani Hall at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts. strazcenter.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Oct. 29: Red Cross Angels’ Silver Coffee. Invitation only. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Everett residence in South Tampa. redcrossangelssilvercoffee@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Nov. 5: Wine, Women & Shoes benefits the Children’s Cancer Center. 6-10 p.m. Armature Works. childrenscancercenter.org\/wine-women-shoes<\/a><\/p>\n

Contact Amy Scherzer at amyscherzersdiary@gmail.com<\/a> to have your event listed on the calendar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept. 15: Ninth Annual Tampa Bay Food Fight benefits Metropolitan Ministries. St. Pete versus Tampa chef team battle.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[158461,135,1526,40926,137,16037,136],"class_list":["post-397601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-lions-world-vision-institute-foundation","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-convention-center","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-museum-of-art","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397601","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=397601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}