We do Grocery Co-ops!
One Community Grocery Co-op is grocery store with a cooperative business structure. OCGC is organized to offer and provide to access to good, healthy food, build stronger communities, and healthy people. One Community Grocery Co-op is a developing retail cooperative business that is owned by its members. This means that it is owned by members of the community – not outside investors.
We do community groups!
MOYTF, Inc. is a community-based grassroots organization located in South St. Petersburg, Florida, committed to empowering and improving our community through mentoring in our public schools, a Summer Development Program for at-risk children, a nursing home visitation program, and entry-level chess clubs at several area schools. We promote self-discipline, sound decision-making, compassion, respect for all mankind, and community and family involvement.
We do heritage and history!
In 2013, the City of St. Petersburg received a $50,000 grant from the Florida Department of State, Division of Historical Resources, to fund the African-American Heritage Trail project. A steering committee was formed, composed of community members, historians and other specialists from local educational and cultural institutions, all of whom had a special interest in African-American history. In 2014, the African-American Heritage Association of St. Petersburg, Inc. was incorporated as a nonprofit in the state of Florida and became a 501(c)(3) in 2019.
We do museums!
Headquartered in the former Curtis Elementary School and originally established as the Pinellas County African American History Museum, The Curtis Museum serves as a research center for the study of African American culture and life in Pinellas County, Florida.