As travel advisors, Carry on the Magic Vacations loves the state of Florida! Here you find our favorite theme park destinations, cruise ports, and so much more. As the world watches the state get devastated by back to back major hurricanes here are some local organizations to consider donating to:
Metro Ministries in Tampa, FL
This Tampa Based organization is affiliated with Americorps and provides comprehensive services for homeless and at risk families in the Tampa Area. They provide food, shelter, financial assistance and more. They’ve already partnered with Cox Media to provide non-perishable food boxes, hot meals, bagged lunches, motel vouchers, cleaning kits, crisis navigation services and more after Hurricane Helene and will continue their efforts for residents effected after Hurricane Milton.
To learn more about this organization visit https://www.metromin.org/
Feeding Florida
Feeding Florida serves as the state’s network of food banks and is a partner of Feeding America. With 9 food banks, and more than 2,400 partners in the state, Feeding Florida is on the ground ensuring food, water and resources are available to residents effected by the recent and upcoming storms.
To learn more about this organization visit https://www.feedingflorida.org/
The Florida Disaster Fund
The Florida Disaster Fund is the state’s official private fund to assist communities as they respond and recover from disasters. This grant based fund is awarded to communities as they deal with immediate and long term consequences of qualifying emergent or disaster situations. It’s run by Volunteer Florida which supports high impact national service programs and promotes volunteerism throughout the state.
To learn more about this fund visit https://www.volunteerflorida.org/florida-disaster-fund/ To donate to the Volunteer Florida Annual Fund visit https://www.volunteerflorida.org/donate/
World Central Kitchen
Fans of Jaleo by Jose Andres will be thrilled to donate to Chef Andres’ World Central Kitchen. Providing food to vulnerable populations after a humanitarian, climate, and community crisis, they have already mobilized in Florida and North Carolina after Hurricane Helene and can be expected to continue to provide support following Hurricane Milton. To learn more about this organization visit https://wck.org/
Other Places to Donate Include
The American Red Cross- https://www.redcross.org/
Habitat for Humanity Florida- https://www.habitatflorida.org/
CDP Disaster Fund (for long term equitable disaster relief and assistance with grant funding) https://disasterphilanthropy.org/
Our thoughts go out to those effected by the coming storms, and those who have already lost so much.
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