HOT GRANT NEWS SUMMER 2021

May & June 2021 Satchel's customers supported Round Up For Charity and Satchel's was able to give One Love Prison Meditation Project $3100!!! One Love PMP provides weekly meditation classes for over 80 incarcerated people at Florida State Prison, Gadsden Re-Entry Center, Cross City Correctional, and Lawtey Correctional Institution.  

"One Love Prison Meditation Project is the most beneficial activity I have participated in while being incarcerated. The power of meditating in a group collective is incredible and through that I have reached levels of meditation that I did not think were possible for me. After group meditation I leave with a sense of peace and fulfillment I have never before experienced. The feeling of peace can sometimes stay with me for days after. The group has developed a place of love and brotherhood that I have never experienced in prison. One Love PMP is extremely beneficial for anyone. From the first time meditator to the life long student of meditation."

2021 Second Quarter Satch Cares Grant $1500 was awarded to Center for Independent Living - NCF.  CILNCF will use these funds to help build more wheelchair ramps for our community members that do not have access in or out of their homes. Covid has amplified the insolation of so many and especially those who need a wheelchair ramp. When our customers use Satchel's ATM machines they support so many wonderful nonprofits in Alachua County.

As an extra grant Satch is giving $1000 to Come Together Productions to help support a new local radio station, 90.1 WMBT.

Satch Cares - Satchel's quarterly grant - 

has awarded three grants for the first quarter of 2021. 

Hawthorne Area Resource Center will receive $945. HARC's mission is to feed local families and to assess for needs, meet the needs they can, and make appropriate referrals when necessary.  This grant will be used for crisis interventions to help persons with utilities, prescriptions, copays for medical visits and assistance obtaining birth certificates for job applications and other services. The grant will all be used for purchasing food from Bread of the Mighty Food Bank for dispersing to local families in need.

Lincoln Middle School and Rawlings Elementary School were both awarded teacher appreciations luncheons for their teachers and staff.  Satchel's has great respect for teachers, staff and everyone involved in public education in Alachua County. Teachers have shown great strength and adaptability this past year. We honor their commitment to their students.

Satchel's next Satch Cares grant(s) will be awarded in July 2021. To apply, please email Gracy at satchelsdonation@gmail.com. 

Round Up For Charity - Jan/Feb 2021

Partnership for Strong Families was just awarded $2240! Satchel's first RUFC - Round Up for Charity - award of 2021. Partnership for Strong Families will use this grant to support needs related to health and nutrition our Cone Park Library Resource Center, serving east Gainesville. This will include quarterly community dinners, an emergency food pantry, health/fitness-related activities and more! Satchel's wants to thank our wonderful customers for Rounding Up for Charity when they pay. THANK YOU!

When you pay in March & April 2021 and RUFC your donation will support Alachua Women Build. Alachua Women Build is an all-volunteer program of Habitat for Humanity that raises funds for and builds houses in partnership with hard-working families often headed by women in need of safe, affordable homes. 

SATCH CAPTIAL GRANT 2020

 Satchel’s awards $3197 to BREAD of the MIGHTY FOOD BANK

Satchel’s Pizza is proud to award 2020 Satch Capital Grant award to Bread of the Mighty. Bread of the Mighty Food Bank is celebrating 32 years of serving the community, is a private non-profit organization. The 33 year old food bank collects, sorts, stores and distributes donated food and basic essentials to 190+ non-profit agency partners such as food pantries, churches, homeless shelters and other organizations who then distribute food in their communities to directly feed the hungry. In 2020 over 18.2 million pounds of food was distributed through Bread of the Mighty's five-county service area. The Satch Capital Grant 2020 was funded by Satchel’s customers who give their support to local nonprofits by using Satchel’s ATM machines. 

If your organization is interested in becoming a Round Up for Charity (RUFC) partner with Satchel's Pizza please email Gracy at satchelsdonation@gmail.com for more information.