Spring hiring event offers opportunities for job seekers and churches For its fifth consecutive year, Better Together is breaking down employment barriers by hosting a series of background-friendly job fairs on April 20, 2023, as part of its Nationwide Day of Second Chances. In advance of the annual event, the nonprofit is seeking church partners [...]
Better Together, a nonprofit dedicated to helping families in crisis and preventing the need for foster care, is hosting a Parents’ Night Out event on Friday, Dec. 9 in Jacksonville. The program offers parents, grandparents and other caregivers access to a couple of hours of no-cost care for children ages infant through 17 years old. [...]
Better Together and Grace Church are partnering to host a Second Chance Job Fair from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 15 for Southwest Florida residents facing barriers to employment. Better Together’s Second Chance job fairs help job seekers overcome barriers to employment, such as incarceration, homelessness and even lack of transportation, by [...]
The Collier Community Foundation has awarded Better Together, a nonprofit dedicated to families and children, with a $10,000 grant to support its Hurricane Ian disaster relief efforts in Collier County. The grant from the Collier Community Foundation will support the local nonprofit in its efforts to provide a variety of resources to meet the growing [...]
Better Together and Hollywood Community Church are partnering to host a community job fair for Hollywood-area residents from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 27. The church-based job fair not only connects job seekers with local employers who are ready to hire, but also provides resources to facilitate stronger connections and more hires. [...]
Better Together, a nonprofit dedicated to helping families in crisis and preventing the need for foster care, is hosting a Parents’ Night Out event on Friday, Aug. 5 in Jacksonville. The program offers parents, grandparents and other caregivers access to a couple of hours of no-cost care for children ages infant through 17 years old. [...]
Better Together, a nonprofit dedicated to helping families in crisis and preventing the need for foster care, is partnering with First Bradenton to host a summer camp from Monday, July 11 through Friday, July 15, serving children across Manatee and Sarasota counties. The Vacation Bible School (VBS) program features a “Spark Studios” theme, where kids [...]
Better Together, a nonprofit dedicated to helping families in crisis and preventing the need for foster care, is hosting a Parents’ Night Out event on Friday, June 24 in St. Petersburg. The program offers parents, grandparents and other caregivers access to a couple of hours of no-cost care for children ages infant through 17 years [...]
Better Together, a nonprofit dedicated to helping families in crisis and preventing the need for foster care, is hosting Parents’ Night Out events on Saturday, May 28 and Friday, June 3 in Jacksonville. The program offers parents, grandparents and other caregivers access to a couple of hours of no-cost care for children ages infant through [...]
Better Together, a nonprofit dedicated to helping families in crisis and preventing the need for foster care, is hosting a Better Luncheon for Southwest Florida parents on Saturday, May 14 in Bonita Springs. Better Together organizes a luncheon program at various locations each month to bring parents together for community, to support each other and [...]
Better Together, a nonprofit dedicated to helping families in crisis and preventing the need for foster care, is hosting a Better Luncheon for Southwest Florida parents on Saturday, April 23 in Fort Myers. Better Together organizes a luncheon program at various locations each month to bring parents together for community, to support each other and [...]
Better Together, a nonprofit dedicated to helping families in crisis and preventing the need for foster care, is hosting a Better Luncheon for parents of Manatee and Sarasota counties on Saturday, April 16 at Crosspointe Church in Sarasota. Better Together organizes a luncheon program at various locations each month to bring parents together for community, [...]
Better Together, a nonprofit dedicated to helping families in crisis and preventing the need for foster care, is hosting a Better Luncheon for parents in Manatee and Sarasota counties on Saturday, March 19 at First United Methodist Church of Bradenton. Better Together organizes a luncheon program at various locations each month to bring parents together [...]
Better Together, a nonprofit dedicated to helping families in crisis and preventing the need for foster care, has expanded its programs to the Jacksonville area, set to serve the three-county region of Nassau, Duval and Clay counties by late 2021. Better Together is made up of two programs – Better Families and Better Jobs – [...]
Better Together and Light of the World Christian Tabernacle are partnering to host a community job fair for residents of the Stockbridge and greater Atlanta area on Thursday, Oct. 7. The church-based job fair will connect job seekers with local employers who are ready to hire. Participating employers include Bird Staffing, Material in Motion, Uniform [...]
Better Together, a voluntary, community-driven alternative to foster care, has received a $30,000 donation of family supplies from Truist Financial Corporation as part of its Lighthouse Project program. The Lighthouse Project is a long-standing BB&T, now Truist, tradition that allows teammates to support local nonprofit organizations on projects to address critical community needs. This year, [...]
$100 monthly recurring gift keeps a child out of foster care Better Together, a voluntary, community-driven alternative to foster care, has introduced the Hopeful 100 Club to encourage monthly recurring gifts of $100 that cover the costs of keeping a child out of foster care and families together. Since March, Better Together has seen a [...]
Better Together, a voluntary, community-driven alternative to foster care, is seeking donations for HopePacks to provide basic hygiene, toiletry and other necessities for children participating in the Better Families program. Since March and the onset of COVID-19, the nonprofit organization has seen a 155% increase in the number of requests for help due to the [...]
Better Together is partnering with Covenant Church of Naples to host a virtual job fair on Thursday, Nov. 19 for Southwest Florida residents. Taking place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Nov. 19, this virtual job fair will connect hundreds of people in Southwest Florida with dozens of employers that need to fill a [...]
Megan Rose, CEO of Better Together, is one of three national nonprofit leaders named to Manhattan Institute’s Civil Society Fellows. Rose will receive a $10,000 fellowship for her efforts to improve local communities as Better Together works to strengthen families and communities by promoting work, protecting children and supporting families in crisis. The institute’s 15-month [...]
