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Maeven Rogers

Oct 1, 2026

14:53
What was that like
14:54
for you? so that was yeah so that was really great you know we received a five thousand dollar grant from the bolo foundation and what we really wanted to do is we wanted to disperse a little bit of the wealth even though it was a rather smaller grant we thought it might be good to partner with multiple organizations so we took about we took about four thousand dollars of that and um donated it to tampa bay watch which they were able to do a boat tours that focused on sea level rise and warming which was really great And then we took $1,000 of that grant and gave it to our local nonprofits, which then, because the city of St.
15:32
Petersburg is unique in a way where we have a plastic straw ban ordinance that was set in place before the preemption by the state, that we have a lot of restaurants actually that do not serve plastic straws.
15:45
But we still have a lot of restaurants that do.
15:47
So we have our nonprofits go out and offer different alternative options with that $1,000 by showing people what they could do.
15:56
And the really exciting part of all of that is we have one restaurant that actually totally changed and shifted their perspective and now no longer serves plastic straws.
16:08
And I think $1,000 was worth the restaurant, you know, because then they all kind of change and things like that.
18:22
Can you just tell me a little bit about what you're doing with the food and nutrition?

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