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WellFlorida Council was selected as a winner in the 26th annual National Health Information Awards. This program recognizes the best consumer health information programs and materials. The HIV Care Programs website (HIVCarePrograms.org) and brochure received a Silver Award in the Total Health Information category. The marketing materials were designed and edited by Jill Dygert, WellFlorida’s...

The Education Foundation has awarded laptops to 20 students from their Take Stock in Children program thanks to the generosity of Cox Communications.  Students were surprised in the company of their school administrators, parents and Take Stock in Children mentors. “We want to encourage these students and reward them for their hard work in school,...

Alachua County has joined the “Age-Friendly Initiative,” a network of more than 847 cities and communities in 41 countries, working to improve their physical and social environments to become better places in which to grow old.  The designation, approved by AARP, makes Alachua County one of more than 384 Age-Friendly Communities across the United States....

Food Delivery App’s Holiday Food Drive is Under Way Bite Squad, the popular food delivery app, has launched its Share Thanksgiving food drive campaign. The goal is to help feed families in need by providing them with free Thanksgiving meals. Beginning today, when anyone orders from Bite Squad, the company will make a donation that...

The UF Medical Guild has awarded grant funding to 14 nonprofit organizations to support community-wide health and wellness projects, including one aimed at helping improve survival rates from sudden cardiac arrest in East Gainesville. The UF Health Chest Pain Center, in coordination with the UF Health PulsePoint task force, applied for the Medical Guild grant...

November is recognized as National Hunger Month in America. In 2008, a Strike Out Hunger community-wide food drive was held to benefit the Alachua county food bank and pantries.  Since then, the awareness events have grown with the collaboration of groups throughout our area.  The Long Foundation, Inc., The Martin Luther King, Jr, Commission of...

The City of Gainesville is hosting a series of public workshops to help inform the work of the newly created Gainesville Community Reinvestment Area (GCRA) over the course of the next ten years. The meetings will be held the week of November 4 in each of the four previous community redevelopment areas – Eastside, Fifth...

Santa Fe College held a ceremonial groundbreaking for the new Blount Campus on Wednesday, October 9, 2019, at the Blount Center. Construction is slated to begin on or about February 1, 2020, with completion targeted for 16 months later. Once completed, the three-story 86,311 square-foot building will become the Blount Campus, complete with classrooms, lab...

The Suss Family Endowment has been established to support scholarships for students in the Innovation Academy who are pursuing a degree from either the Warrington College of Business or the College of Journalism and Communications. “We are excited to see UF expand the student experience with a focus on entrepreneurship, creativity, ethics and leadership.  These...

The European Medicines Agency, or EMA, has announced its conditional marketing authorization of a vaccine used to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus. University of Florida researchers played an integral role in the design and analysis of trials testing the effectiveness of the vaccine, manufactured by Merck. Conditional authorization brings the vaccine a major...