{"id":430598,"date":"2026-10-17T17:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T17:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/430598\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T17:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T17:10:07","slug":"community-foundation-tampa-bay-awards-grant-to-ready-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/430598\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Foundation Tampa Bay awards grant to Ready for Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 17, 2026 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cftampabay.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Community Foundation Tampa Bay<\/a> has awarded a $50,000 grant to Largo-based nonprofit <a href=\"https:\/\/readyforlifepinellas.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ready for Life. <\/a>According to a prepared statement, the organization helps &#8220;young people transitioning out of foster care gain the education, career skills and resources they need to build financially independent futures.&#8221; The funding will &#8220;support 100 foster youth and young adults through GED instruction, vocational certifications, career exploration, entrepreneurship training and life-skills coaching.&#8221;&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"October 17, 2026 &#8211; \u00a0Community Foundation Tampa Bay has awarded a $50,000 grant to Largo-based nonprofit Ready for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-430598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430598","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=430598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}