We are ready to build something special, with your help, on our 15-acre One More Child Palm Garden Campus in East Sarasota.
One More Child is ready to meet the urgent nutritional, educational, financial, housing and spiritual needs of vulnerable children and working poor families. We provide compassionate, expert services in 14 countries. We will build on our existing success and bring together nonprofit, church and business partners to lead the way toward revitalization.
When you say “YES” to joining our vision, you are saying “YES” to helping Sarasota come together, like never before.
what it takes
Shared vision like never before.
Generosity like never before.
Mentorship like never before.
Volunteering like never before.
Prayer like never before.
challenges
Where change is needed in Sarasota
Support, encourage and equip single moms.
- More than 1 in 3 households in Sarasota, Manatee and Desoto Counties are led by single moms.1
- In Sarasota county, 63% of families headed by a single mom do not bring in enough income to meet their family’s basic needs.2
Meet the needs of foster children and foster families.
- More than 2,800 children were removed from their homes in Sarasota, Manatee and DeSoto counties in the past four years due to abuse, abandonment and neglect.3
- On our Palm Garden campus we will provide opportunities to wrap around vulnerable families with preventative services, while also offering support and training for local foster families.
Feed hungry children.
- More than 97,000 people are food insecure in Sarasota, Manatee and DeSoto counties.4
- Nearly 40 percent of working households in the Suncoast region cannot cover basic needs for their family.5
Sources
1: Florida Child Well-Being Index, 2019
2: United Way Alice Report (2018)
3: Florida Department of Children and Families Child Welfare Dashboard (2021)
4: Feeding America (2018)
5: United Way Alice Report (2018)
solutions
One More Child Palm Garden Campus
Single Moms and Children Housing
Four paired villas will provide eight homes, offering sanctuary and support for single mothers and their children working through our year-long Single Moms program to achieve self-sufficiency. Our program provides practical skills training, spiritual mentorship and an extended support system to help brave single moms get life-changing resources and develop vital relationships.
Projected 5-Year Impact:
231
single moms and children served
Vern and Sandy Buchanan Children’s Center
When you drive onto the beautiful Palm Garden Sarasota Campus, you will be greeted by the 8,500-square-foot Vern and Sandy Buchanan Children’s Center, a facility dedicated to the preventive and restorative work One More Child is known for.
Relationships between volunteers, mentors and people served by our organization will be nourished through life skills classes, packing and distributing of meals and more.
It will be a safe space where single moms, families and children can build toward long-term success. Churches, businesses, organizations and individuals will come together in the Center as a unified vehicle to help struggling Sarasota area children and families achieve the transformation they are desperately seeking.
Projected 5-Year Impact:
189,000
meals provided
875
children and individuals impacted
Give like never before, so children and families can thrive like never before:
One More Child is seeking partners to invest in children and families across the Sarasota region. An estimated total investment of at least $10 million is needed to make the Sarasota campus vision a reality.
Generous partners have already stepped forward to purchase and rezone the campus property, and begin the initial phases of campus construction. However, additional gifts AT ALL LEVELS are needed to complete the planned campus and impact lives in Sarasota and the surrounding area.
Your financial investment can help:
- open homes for hard-working single moms and their children.
- provide safe, loving homes for foster children.
- meet critical food needs for hungry children locally.
- bring together community volunteers to support and empower families in Sarasota like never before.
Our Legacy
Leading the Enduring Mission of Impact
In 1904, Florida Baptist Orphanage opened in Arcadia, Florida to meet the needs of children enduring incredible challenges. 120 years later, the mission is the same – to provide Christ-centered services to vulnerable children and struggling families – but our methods and programming continue to evolve to efficiently and effectively share the love of Christ in transformative ways.
One More Child has been a leader in foster care for decades and has continued to expand its impact into many other important avenues related to child welfare. Incredible community partners and support have made it possible to increase the number of children we serve and also facilitate prevention programs that protect vulnerable children and strengthen the community. One More Child is exceptionally focused on meeting urgent needs and building lifelong relationships with children and families that point to the love of Jesus Christ.
Annually, One More Child impacts more than 250,000 children and families nationally and globally through its work to meet the needs of hungry children, foster children, trafficked children, single moms, and struggling families.
