Compassionate SWFL is a partnership by design: every Community Action Table works alongside the organizations, institutions, and congregations already serving Southwest Florida. These are some of the partners carrying the work with us.
A cornerstone partner across the initiative: home base for the Virtues Project table, host of Community Conversations, and an implementation partner in kindness micro-grant projects supporting youth and staff.
Program emphasis includes education, leadership, and community empowerment in Fort Myers.
The Roots of Compassion and Kindness (ROCK) Center at FGCU advances compassion, empathy, and civic engagement through education and community-facing programs — from campus kindness campaigns with the Kindness & Compassion table to the Kindfulness Grant model now expanding across the region.
FGCU also hosted Community Conversation III, opening intergenerational dialogue between students and residents.
Many partnerships run through individual Community Action Tables, where organizations plug their strengths directly into the work.
Works with the Sustainable Food Access Action Team on food distribution — connecting local nonprofits and organizations into the food-access chain.
Sustainable Food Access →The collaboration group through which the E-Ship table formed, bringing together organizations and leaders who support entrepreneurship across the region.
E-Ship (Entrepreneurship) →Partners with the Youth Programs & Education table to expand safe, creative participation pathways for young people.
Youth Programs & Education →Community Conversations rotate through spaces generously opened to us by local congregations and institutions — including the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fort Myers, the Quality Life Center, Florida Gulf Coast University, and Iona Hope Episcopal Church.
Nonprofits, businesses, congregations, schools, and local government all have a seat at the table. If your organization’s mission touches food access, mental health, youth, kindness, equity, or entrepreneurship, there’s a table already working on it — and room for you in it.
