St. John’s would like to extend a big “Thank you” to our team of market volunteers who baked, knitted, curated, donated, organized, and more! You helped make 2024’s St. John’s Market a wonderful success. The 2024 St. John’s Market took in $31.4K after expenses, which enabled us to award $15.7K in grants to local organizations. The remaining $15.7K will help support St. John’s mission, programs, and ministries.
Congratulations to the 2024 grant recipients, whose projects were selected to receive funding from the St. John’s Market Grants committee, and approved by the church Vestry.
2024 GRANT RECIPIENTS:
The grant awarded by the St. John’s Market will go towards funding spay/neuter vouchers.
Visit their website to learn how Be the Solution is dedicated to preventing the cycle of suffering for unwanted pets living in shelters and on the street by promoting and facilitating affordable spay and neuter surgeries.
The grant awarded by the St. John’s Market will help provide winter supplies for many people living in Tallahassee.
Visit the Beyond the Pantry’s website to learn about this Tallahassee-based non-profit that sources and
shares basic-needs products: the expensive necessities of life beyond food that many of us take for granted.
The grant awarded by the St. John’s Market will go towards their peer support program activities.
Visit the Big Bend AFTER (A Fight To End Recidivism) Reentry Coalition website to learn more about how they are working to increase public safety and reduce recidivism through collaborating and establishing community partnerships, identifying and providing services to currently and formerly incarcerated people, empowering them to become proactive, self-sufficient members of the community.
The grant awarded by the St. John’s Market will help purchase items to better serve their patients.
Visit the Big Bend Hospice website to learn how they are positively impacting the way our community experiences serious illness or grief, by supporting individuals and their loved ones in the Big Bend.
The Blessing Cup of Tallahassee, INC
The grant awarded by the St. John’s Market will help purchase a washer and dryer for a Tallahassee resident.
Visit the Blessing Cup of Tallahassee’s website to learn how they help to improve the quality of life of the elderly poor in Leon County, Florida, by providing shelter, food, or clothing and by providing financial assistance.
The grant awarded by the St. John’s Market will help rebuild and replace kennels damaged in Hurricane Helene.
Visit Forgotten Coast K9’s website website to learn how they are deeply committed to making a positive impact within the hero community by addressing the distressing rate of Veteran and First Responder suicides. Their main focus is to help provide individuals with highly trained service dogs along with comprehensive education and support.
The grant awarded by the St. John’s Market will fund the Blended Lives Project which will help over 3000 Leon County School students learn about ethnic and racial harmony.
Visit the Goodwood Museum & Garden website to learn more about this historical site in Tallahassee.
The grant awarded by the St. John’s Market will fund the CARE Program which includes care packages, travel and utilities, and grief counseling.
Visit the Hang Tough Foundation’s website to learn how the Hang Tough Foundation offers resources and encouragement to families during their journey with childhood illness and special needs.
The grant awarded by the St. John’s Market will help furnish a recreation space and lounge for their residents.
Visit Independence Landing’s website to learn about this not-for-profit corporation, the mission of which is to build, own, and operate an affordable safe, planned residential community for adults with varying intellectual and/or developmental disabilities allowing residents to successfully lead independent and fulfilled lives.
The grant awarded by the St. John’s Market will fund KidSafe’s Look Before You Lock marketing materials as they expand into Gadsden County.
Visit KidSafe’s website to learn how they play an important role in helping to reduce childhood injuries and death in the local communities of the Big Bend area of North Florida by providing adaptable safety seats to families with low incomes.
The grant awarded by the St. John’s Market will fund baby showers for six expectant refugee families.
Visit That’s Neighborly’s website to learn more about how their vision to deinstitutionalize charity by helping you become friends with those at a disadvantage, thus, making poverty personal.
The grant awarded by the St. John’s Market will fund metal enclosures to help quarantine and keep the wild animals safe from disease.
Visit the St. Francis Wildlife Association website to learn how they provide humane care and rehabilitation for orphaned, injured and sick wildlife in North Florida and public education for our community.
San Pedro Apostal Organoponic Garden Project
The grant awarded by the St. John’s Market will fund irrigation supplies for our friends in Zorilla, Cuba.
The grant awarded by the St. John’s Market will help with food distribution of no-cost meals to low-income and food insecure children and families throughout the Big Bend.
Visit the Second Harvest of the Big Bend website to learn how this nonprofit food bank collects and distributes food to hunger-relief charities, and also through specialized programs and mobile food distributions undertaken with community partners.
The grant awarded by the St. John’s Market will help source new instruments for their students.
Visit the Tallahassee Bach Parley website to learn more about this organization that provides concerts to the community and music education through the Bach Parley String Academy.
The grant awarded by the St. John’s Market will help support their Restorative Justice Program.
Visit the Tallahassee Bail Fund website to learn about their mission to pay bail for those who cannot afford it.
