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TRC Staffing Services Lends a Hand to the Tom Coughlin Jay Fund

Submitted by rdaigle on Wednesday, August 28th, 2:24 pm

JACKSONVILLE, FLA. – The Tom Coughlin Jay Fund, an organization dedicated to supporting families that are tackling childhood cancer, recently won a grant from TRC Staffing Services of Jacksonville that awarded the nonprofit 40 hours of free, temporary staffing support. The Jay Fund is the first of 12 organizations in the 2013 – 2014 cycle to receive the grant through the Helping Hands Grant program – an initiative aimed at supporting local nonprofits struggling to meet staffing needs within tight timetables and even tighter budgets.

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CarbuX Car Wash Provides More Than 300 Free Car Washes on Veterans Day

Submitted by rdaigle on Tuesday, November 20th, 11:45 am

JACKSONVILLE, FLA. – CarbuX Car Wash provided veterans and military personnel with 302 free car washes —complete with red, white and blue soap — on Nov. 11 to honor these men and women for their service. All three CarbuX Car Wash locations offered the free car washes as part of the international Grace for Vets program.

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LA FITNESS BRINGS NEW OPTIONS TO JACKSONVILLE-AREA RESIDENTS WITH FOUR NEW HEALTH CLUBS

Submitted by Megan Stoner on Friday, July 27th, 7:27 am

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – LA Fitness is pleased to announce that it will open four new health clubs in the Jacksonville, Fla., area this October. The locations of the clubs, which the company selected based on accessibility and convenience, are at Atlantic and Kernan; University Drive and St. Augustine Boulevard in Lakewood; Blanding Boulevard at 9A in Orange Park; and Atlantic Boulevard and Penman Road in Atlantic Beach. Presale memberships are now available for all four locations.

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Young Breast Cancer Survivors Group Receives Final Investing In You Grant

Submitted by rdaigle on Monday, July 23rd, 11:17 am

JACKSONVILLE, FLA. – The Young Survivors Group at the Women’s Center of Jacksonville will be able to continue to help young breast cancer survivors thanks to a recent $1,000 grant won through Community First Credit Union’s Investing in You contest. The grant will help secure a location for monthly meetings, provide educational materials and fund outreach efforts for the Young Survivors Group.

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New Autism Support Group to Launch through Grant from Community First Credit Union

Submitted by rdaigle on Friday, July 6th, 9:41 am

JACKSONVILLE, FLA. – Parents of autistic children will soon have a supportive environment in which to share their feelings, ideas and treatment options, thanks to a $1000 Investing In You grant from Community First Credit Union. The grant will help launch The S.T.A.R. group, named for the benefits the group will bring its members: support, teaching, advocacy and respect.

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Camp for Children Coping with Homicide Receives Support from Community First Credit Union

Submitted by rdaigle on Monday, June 25th, 11:34 am

JACKSONVILLE, FLA. – Community First Credit Union awarded a $1,000 Investing in You grant to Compassionate Families, Inc., to benefit Camp Maddie, its therapeutic camp that provides grief recovery and support services to children affected by homicide. Camp Maddie serves as a living memorial to Maddie Clifton, an eight-year-old Jacksonville girl who was brutally murdered by her young neighbor in 1998.

Sheila Clifton Delongis (back row, far right), mother of Maddie Clifton, and Glen Mitchell (to left of Delongis), co-founder of Compassionate Families, Inc., recently accepted a $1,000 grant from Community First Credit Union’s Investing in You contest to support the organization’s dedication to helping children cope with homicide.

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Community First Credit Union Gives Human Trafficking Victims Support to Start Over

Submitted by rdaigle on Monday, June 11th, 1:26 pm

JACKSONVILLE, FLA. – Community First Credit Union awarded a $1,000 Investing in You grant to Rethreaded, a nonprofit agency dedicated to helping women victims of the sex trade industry restart their lives economically and emotionally. The grant will be used to support the agency’s T-shirt recycling business, which employs women who are emerging from lives of addiction, violence, human trafficking and prostitution.

Rethreaded collects donated T-shirts and teaches women to recycle them into new products, including handbags, scarves, and rugs. The agency sells these items, along with other products made by women all over the world, through home parties that not only raise money to reinvest in the project, but also help educate others on the horrors of human trafficking. The $1,000 grant will help the organization purchase a new sewing machine and sewing supplies.

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