Did you know that your volunteer time may qualify for certain tax deductions? Here's what the IRS will allow volunteers at nonprofits to deduct. [more]

Fox TV 13 features The Tampa Bay Harvest in their segment titled "What's Right with Tampa Bay" Watch Video 

A recent study finds that people who volunteer for selfless reasons, such as helping others, live longer than those who don't lend a helping hand, a new study shows. However, those who volunteer for more self-centered reasons do not reap the same life-extending benefits.

The findings showed that those who volunteered for more altruistic reasons had lower mortality rates as of 2008 than people who did not volunteer. [more]

Many restaurants over the years throw away 25-30% of their ingredients. This always bothered Ilya "Ben" Goldberg, proprietor of The Stone Soup Company. He vowed that at The Stone Soup Company this will never happen. So an interesting concept was born one week before opening the restaurant. All unused produce is made into a vegetable soup and donated to local homeless shelters for redistribution. This became so popular that during Stone Soup’s move to its current location, Ilya simply funded the soup giveaway himself. Through their "2 Campaign", for every cup of soup sold in the restaurant, a cup of soup is donated to the Tampa Bay Harvest. 

New Channel 8 WFLA on Dec 21st and an article in the Tampa Tribune on Dec 22. New Channel 8 December 21, 2010, 5:30pm Tampa Tribune December 22, 2010 [more]