Ruth Ann Marrie, MD, Ph.D., a neurologist, and researcher at the University of Manitoba, is the winner of this year’s Barancik Prize for Innovation in MS Research. The disease was…
Kaitlyn PerezFebruary 8, 2023
COVID-19 has revealed the depths of Sarasota’s housing crisis — when you’re priced out of the market, where do you go? Sarasota County has not kept pace with the demand…
Barancik FoundationMarch 30, 2022
As we look back on the year, we are reminded why Chuck and Margie believed so much in this community to establish their philanthropic legacy here. They acknowledged there would…
Barancik FoundationJanuary 7, 2022
Unkind as 2020 has been, we see it as a year filled with opportunity, lessons, and hope. Overlapping crises have provided our community an occasion to reimagine itself. We have…
Barancik FoundationJanuary 1, 2021
What if eight-year-old girls were put in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency? “If only,” said Girls Inc. of Sarasota County members as they made the switch to renewable energy.…
Barancik FoundationDecember 14, 2020
Note: This article was originally published by Scene Magazine on May 1, 2020. Much has been claimed about which professions are essential and which aren’t. On the morning of Monday, March…
Barancik FoundationMay 4, 2020
We are grateful for the outpouring of community support after the passing of Chuck and Margie. Since our founding, it was a day that was discussed and thought through, but…
Barancik FoundationJanuary 1, 2020
Untreated mental health issues in children, youth, and young adults devastate individuals, extend to their families, and spread across the community to cost taxpayers dearly. But the barriers that prevent…
Barancik FoundationMarch 27, 2019
That’s how a math lesson at a local elementary school started. Fun. Creative. Engaging. A partnership between Barancik Foundation and Sarasota County Schools has reinvented elementary math instruction so that every…
Barancik FoundationOctober 30, 2018