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Truist Awards $30,000 Grant to FCDI for Equity in Entrepreneurship Program
We're grateful to announce that FCDI has received a $30,000 grant from Truist Financial Corporation to support our Equity in Entrepreneurship program. The Equity in Entrepreneurship program is a collaborative project of Grow to Greatness Ventures and FCDI’s AMRoC Fab...
Join the Uptown Community Collaborative at AMRoC Fab Lab
FCDI, in partnership with Grow to Greatness Ventures, is spearheading a Forward Cities initiative out of our AMRoC Fab Lab facility in Uptown Tampa. The goal of this effort is to engage with the heart of our community, the residents and businesses of Uptown, to truly...
FCDI Welcomes New Board Member Vanessa Ferguson
Please join us in welcoming Vanessa Ferguson to the Foundation for Community Driven Innovation Board of Directors. Vanessa has been a friend of FCDI & AMRoC Fab Lab since AMRoC opened in June 2019, and is currently serving as a mentor in our Equity in...
Examining Our Receipts: Rising to the Opportunity to be Better
There was a great post on LinkedIn recently which asked some important questions with respect to the spate of corporate declarations that #BlackLivesMatter following protests of racial inequality this past week. The post, by Laura Silva of Global Tech and Ops, which...
FCDI Facilitates More than $20,000 in Donations for Local PPE Production
The Foundation for Community Driven Innovation is pleased and honored to have been able to facilitate over $20,000 in funding and donations to support the MRG3D Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) project organized by Tampa Department of Defense Engineer, Michael...
FCDI Receives Emergency Assistance Grant from United Way Suncoast for PPE Work
FCDI is pleased and grateful to announce that United Way Suncoast is providing $4,700 in emergency funding in support of our community Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) efforts at AMRoC Fab Lab. The funds are part of a more than $1.2 million of COVID-19 emergency...
FCDI Welcomes New Board Member Pam Oakes
We're happy to welcome Pam Oakes to the FCDI Board of Directors. Pam is an Automotive Standards Expert with 30 years in the industry, and a 4th generation auto tech. We got to know Pam working with her to bring her US Auto Training programs to AMRoC Fab Lab ,...
Prioritizing Health & Safety While Preserving Community
Like other organizations and companies, we've been monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic and implementing best practices wherever possible. All of the conferences and events FCDI was scheduled to attend through the end of April have been cancelled, including the Houston...
Uptown Chamber of Commerce Ribbon Cutting at AMRoC Fab Lab – Feb 21, 2020 @ 4pm
Join us this Friday, February 21, 2020 at AMRoC Fab Lab for an Uptown Chamber of Commerce new member ribbon cutting at AMRoC Fab Lab, welcoming us to the Chamber and helping us announce our facility and programs to the larger Uptown Community. Tours start at 4pm. The...
FCDI Heads to Synapse Summit 2020 February 11 & 12
FCDI heads to Synapse Summit for the third year in a row this week, this time anchoring a Pop-Up Fab Lab experience on the Amalie Arena Ice Level. Our AMRoC on Ice exhibit is a collaborative effort of several of our amazing program partners and includes a number of...
Happy Holidays & Best Wishes for a New Year of Your Own Making!
It's been an amazing year at FCDI, and as we head into the 2020s, we're excited about what the future holds, especially at AMRoC Fab Lab - a precedent setting space that was only an idea a few years ago, and which, with the help of some amazing partners and...
FCDI Awarded $25,000 CEL Grant for AMRoC Fab Lab
On October 17, 2019 at the at the 5th Annual Innovation Gathering, held at the University of South Florida Gibbons Alumni Center, FCDI was honored to receive a $25,000 grant from the Community Enrichment Laboratory (CEL), a new USF Community Area nonprofit "dedicated...
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