Ev Bosque, chief financial officer of Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation, was selected to participate in the 2024 class of Leadership Sarasota County. Bosque is among 50 current and aspiring…
Kelly RomanoffSeptember 25, 2023
“The earlier the investment, the greater the return.” Once upon a time, our founders, Chuck and Margie Barancik, asked staff to research ways to address summer learning loss for students…
Barancik FoundationApril 19, 2022
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