Community Bulletin

Backpack giveaway

Sponsors, supporters and students from Fifth Third Bank’s Summer of Dreams, a 10-week program for local homeless children, recently volunteered at A Gift For Teaching to fill backpacks with notebooks, pencils, rulers, glue and other supplies. The backpacks will be donated to more than 1,300 local homeless children participating in Summer of Dreams. Fifth Third Bank chipped in with 47 school supply drives at its Central Florida branches.

Dean’s lister

Rachel Laughlin of Winter Park was one of 337 students named to Denison University's 2013 spring semester dean's list by provost Bradley Bateman. Laughlin is a member of the Denison class of 2014.

Lifetime award winner

The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Central Florida Chapter

has announced that Gerald “Jerry” Hilbrich will be the recipient of the 2013 H. Clifford Lee Lifetime Achievement award. Hilbrich has served as Chairman of the Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation Board since 2006. The award is named for the Foundation’s second president, H. Clifford Lee, himself a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. The AFP established the award to recognize an individual who demonstrates a history of exceptional leadership in philanthropy.

Want to switch careers?

Workforce Central Florida is partnering with Valencia College to offer training to fill a shortage of skilled workers in Florida’s high-tech manufacturing industry. WCF is recruiting applicants for entry-level positions and will create a foundation for a career in automation and simulation. The $683,412, four-year grant, called Florida TRADE, will educate 200 people and pay up to $4,200 per applicant for classes, books and certification testing in Central Florida.