Thomas Mayer, 86, lives alone in a two-bedroom, tin-roofed house in the woods of rural Calhoun County, Fla., where his only companion is a 2-year-old Labrador mix named Boy. Mayer, not his real name, does his own plumbing, air conditioning, electrical work and auto repair, enabling him to live on
Donna Marino, CFRE, has joined The Florida Bar Foundation as its development manager with responsibility for increasing financial support for the Foundation’s mission of providing greater access to justice in Florida. Principal support for the Foundation’s charitable activities comes from the Interest on Trust Accounts (IOTA) Program authorized by the
When her labor pains started, Jacinta Moreno, 15, pleaded to be taken to a hospital to have her baby, but the man who had forced her into labor in a Ft. Pierce, Fla., orange grove would not allow it. “He said to me, ‘You can’t go to a hospital, because
Even though their mother had already died in the Arizona desert on her way north from their native Honduras, Angie, 17, and Oscar, 12, decided their odds of survival would be better if they followed her path than if they stayed at home, where they were under constant threat
When The Florida Bar Foundation board meets Dec. 5, it will face some tough decisions. Even anticipating a $6 million loan recently approved by The Florida Bar Board of Governors to be made over the next two years, the Foundation this year will have only $7.7 million available for its
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The support of Bar members through The Florida Bar fee statement and direct donations has become a vital source of funding for The Florida Bar Foundation’s Children’s Legal Services grants, representing 30 percent of total funding in 2014. These grants fund local and statewide Children’s Legal Services projects that protect
In spite of having a 3.7 high school GPA, serving as an ROTC Brigade Commander and having been selected for a highly competitive statewide youth leadership program, Trenton Miller says he’d never considered college until a volunteer lawyer showed him his options. “I was just going to go into
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Orlando, Fla., attorney Bruce B. Blackwell began serving July 1 as the full-time CEO and executive director of The Florida Bar Foundation. A founding shareholder with King, Blackwell, Zehnder & Wermuth P.A. in Orlando, Blackwell is a past president of the Foundation, the 2011 recipient of its Medal of Honor
