A.G. GancarskiAugust 3, 2023
3min0
Among those leaving the board: Rebekah Davis, the wife of the man Deegan defeated in the May election.
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A.G. GancarskiAugust 3, 2023
Wes WolfeOctober 12, 2022
4min0
It's an involved process.
A.G. GancarskiMarch 22, 2018
4min236
Harsh words flowed last week from two heads of Jacksonville nonprofits to Jacksonville city officials regarding perceived irregularities in the new Kids Hope Alliance. At issue: board member Joe Peppers, who had since resigned, pursuing the CEO position of the nascent children’s program board. “I am honored to remain a candidate for the CEO position. If the […]
A.G. GancarskiDecember 14, 2017
2min357
On Thursday, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry announced the chairman of the board for the Kids Hope Alliance will be Kevin Gay. Gay, founder and CEO of Operation New Hope-Ready4Work (an organization that helps ex-offenders re-acclimate to society), will helm a board that includes Rebekah Davis, Nat Glover, Joe Peppers, Tyra Tutor and Dr. Marvin Wells. All six were confirmed Tuesday by […]
A.G. GancarskiDecember 12, 2017
3min262
Six of the seven board members of Jacksonville’s nascent Kids Hope Alliance cleared City Council Tuesday evening. Five of them made the cut via the consent agenda: Rebekah Davis, a former member of the Jacksonville Children’s Commission board of directors; Kevin Gay, a previous Jacksonville Journey board member; former Jacksonville Sheriff and current Edward Waters College President Nat Glover; Iraq War […]
A.G. GancarskiOctober 17, 2016
3min362
The October quarterly campaign finance report for John Rutherford, a Republican running in Florida’s 4th Congressional District, is in. Throughout his campaign to replace outgoing Congressman Ander Crenshaw, Rutherford has run an efficient, lean operation; the October numbers offer no deviation from that trend. All told, as of the October quarterly report, Rutherford has $31,742 on hand. […]
Julie DelegalNovember 8, 20158min656
Kevin Gay is president and founder of a groundbreaking organization that puts nonviolent ex-offenders back into the workforce. His nonprofit mission, Operation New Hope, started with a question: “When are guys like you going to get it?” The question came from his Episcopal priest, Davette Turk, who wanted him to see that serving others didn’t […]
A.G. GancarskiApril 7, 2015
4min201
On a sunny Tuesday morning in Springfield, Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown came together with community leaders for a groundbreaking on a 14-unit apartment building on West Eighth Street, in an area city leaders have been trying to revitalize for decades. The multifamily apartment building, called the Dozier apartments (named after architect Henrietta Dozier) was designed […]