United Way Suncoast Partners with Resilia to Strengthen Nonprofits

Partnership to focus on capacity building for United Way Suncoast’s strategic community partners 

New Orleans, La. - Resilia, a social enterprise with offices in New Orleans and New York City, and United Way Suncoast have come together to strengthen the capacity of a cohort of nonprofits throughout Florida’s Suncoast region.

United Way Suncoast’s mission is to provide leadership that improves lives and creates lasting community change by mobilizing the caring people of its communities to give, advocate, and volunteer. 

Through the Resilia Funder Program, United Way Suncoast will support Florida-based nonprofit organizations in their five county service area: Hillsborough, Pinellas, Manatee, Sarasota and DeSoto. United Way Suncoast is committed to strengthening their local nonprofit ecosystem and will be offering Resilia’s programs to their strategic community partners.

Josh Dunn, Vice President for Investments and Partnership at United Way Suncoast, views the support offered by the Resilia Funder Program as an essential part of community building. “Providing grants to support programs will always be a part of our investment strategy,” Dunn says. “In addition, ensuring that our partners have the bandwidth and capacity to sustain themselves and the impact of their programs strengthens the power of those investments.”

“United Way Suncoast’s mission to remove barriers preventing ALICE (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed) families from thriving throughout the Suncoast region aligns with our mission to uplift communities with the most critical needs,” says Resilia CEO and founder Sevetri Wilson. “We are excited about the opportunity to partner with United Way to continue their impact and strengthen nonprofits in the Suncoast region.”

Through the partnership, United Way Suncoast has also joined Resilia’s flagship ELEVATE initiative, a first of its kind national Funders collaborative comprising 28 Funders and aimed at elevating the capacity and voices of BIPOC-led and BIPOC-serving grassroots organizations throughout the country.

More information about Resilia’s Funder Program can be found here.

About United Way Suncoast

United Way Suncoast severs the constraints that prevent families from thriving. We dismantle the barriers to human prosperity, uniting our community along the way. When we provide pathways to early learning, financial stability, and youth success, we lift up families as they cultivate a future beyond the circumstantial constraints placed on them. We provide choices. We provide opportunities. We create space for families to grow without limitations, elevating communities by building a future with equity for all. We are proud to serve the people of DeSoto, Hillsborough, Manatee, Pinellas, and Sarasota counties by operating and funding services and programs to help our community have the Freedom To Rise. 

About Resilia

Founded in 2016, Resilia is a Black-led organization that leverages a combination of technology & human touch to help nonprofits and change makers build capacity and elevate stories. Resilia’s Funder Program enables grantors (foundations, corporations, and cities) to empower their nonprofit partners with on-demand technical assistance and capacity support that meets them where they are. To learn more about the program, please reach out to Ladye Anne Wofford, VP of Institutional Partnerships, ladye.anne.wofford@resilia.com.