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The Tampa Bay Timeswould Like to Thank the Businesses, Organizations for sharing the news! The Tampa Bay Times would like to thank the businesses, organizations and individuals who supported our Newspaper in Education program (NIE) between August 2017 and August 2018. $20,000 or more $10,000 to $19,999 NIE provides schools with class sets of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Tampa Bay Times and related learning materials at no cost to schools, teachers or families. $5,000 to $9,999 Thanks to the generosity of sponsors like you, NIE provided more than 1.5 million print copies and 10 million digital editions of the Times to classrooms in 2017-2018. Teachers use the Times to enrich their classroom lessons and help students see the connection between academic learning and the wider world. By supporting NIE, you have a direct impact on classrooms in our community. $1,000 - $4,999 American Girl* Kennedy Space Center $1 - $99 Roger & Marjorie Martz Altrusa International of Tampa Bay Amscot Financial Visitor Complex* American Stage Theatre Company* Museum of Arts & Sciences* Wilma B. Hogan Foundation, Inc. Big Cat Habitat and Gulf Coast Bruce & Mary Ann Marger Earl & Sherry Barrett Museum of Contemporary Art Arts Council of Hillsborough County Sanctuary* Thomas & Patricia Moriarty Bok Tower Gardens* Jacksonville* The Frank E. Duckwall Big Cat Rescue* Robert & Pamela Muller Brevard Zoo* Naples Zoo at Caribbean Gardens* Foundation, Inc. Busch Gardens Tampa Bay* Nature’s Food Patch* Butterfly World* The Palladium Theater* Julie Weintraub’s Hands Across Cameron Mitchell Restaurants* Osinga Construction, Inc. Cobb Theatres* Pet Portraits by Eunice Fisher* the Bay Caspers Company McDonald’s Outback Bowl* Crayola Experience* Richey Suncoast Theatre* Restaurants* Oxford Exchange* Belinda Darcy John and Mable Ringling Museum $500 - $999 Catalina Marketing Charitable Marilyn Placzek Dinosaur World FL* of Art* American Legion Auxiliary Unit 273 Foundation Publix Aprons Cooking School* Dunedin Fine Art Center* Marie Selby Botanical Gardens* Peter & Susan Betzer Chipotle Mexican Grill* Publix Super Markets, Inc.* Earth Fare* South Florida Museum* Clearwater Jazz Holiday* Columbia Restaurant Group* Rack Room Shoes* Richard Estren St. Augustine Lighthouse & Coppertail Brewing Co. Claude & Sue Corty Red Mesa Cantina* Florida Holocaust Museum* Maritime Museum* Marian C. Dunn Guillermo & Edelmira Cosma Ruth Eckerd Hall* Florida Museum of Natural History* St. Petersburg Museum of History* Holiday Inn & Suites Clearwater The Dali Museum* Sam Ash Music Stores* Florida Museum of Stageworks Theatre* Beach South - Harbourside* Florida CraftArt* Sarasota Opera* Photographic Arts* Sun South Theatres Inc.* Mark T. Mahaffey Florida Orchestra* Sarasota Orchestra* James R. Ford Sunken Gardens* Saddlebrook Resort* freeFall Theatre Company* Joyce Schmidt Ford’s Garage* Tampa Bay Automobile Museum* SeaWorld Parks & Resorts* James R. Gillespie Eric Soyke Glazer Children’s Museum* Tampa Bay Buccaneers* Tampa Marriott Waterside Valerie J. Ginn St. Petersburg Opera Company* Great Explorations Houghton- Tampa Bay History Center* Hotel & Marina* Bill & Carolyn Glasgow Alison M. Steele P.A. Wagman Children’s Museum* Tampa Museum of Art* Tampa Theatre* Gold & Diamond Source* Deborah Talbot Hemingway Home & Museum* Toffee To Go Inc.* Thorntons Inc. Tom Haight Tampa Bay Lightning* Arthur Kelland Weeki Wachee Springs State Park* Total Wine & More* Bob Haiman Tampa Bay Rays* Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art* Whole Foods Market* $100 - $499 David & Sarah Hill Tarpon Woods Golf Club* Anthony Leisner, MBA, Ph.D. WonderWorks Orlando* Hungry Howie’s Pizza & Subs TreeUmph! Adventure Course* Ybor City Historic Walking Tours* Achieva Credit Union Lightner Museum* Carol Ison Wild Adventures Theme Park* Zoo Tampa at Lowry Park* Aloft Tampa Downtown* Lion Country Safari Inc.* Piers & Carol Jacob Jean Giles Wittner Amalie Arena* We also would like to extend a special thank you to our subscribers who donated the value of their vacation newspapers to NIE, as well as those who made gifts to NIE with their newspaper subscription payments. Your support is truly appreciated. Visit tampabay.com/nie for more information about NIE and to learn how you can help. *Denotes in-kind support. Includes gifts made between Aug. 1, 2017 - July 31, 2018. We welcome corrections to unintended omissions or errors. Please contact 727-893-8969. PR87081.
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