The Winter Park Chamber of Commerce has partnered with community business leaders to create the THRIVE Winter Park initiative. THRIVE Winter Park is a hyper-local charitable response to the financial impacts of COVID-19 on residents and small businesses in Winter Park to enable and accelerate the city’s recovery after the pandemic. If you would like to donate, click here.

THRIVE Winter Park is housed at the Winter Park Chamber of Commerce’s 501-c-3 foundation and is designed to fulfill three goals:

1. Meet immediate needs in our community, such as buying meals from local restaurants to be delivered to frontline hospital workers
2. Evaluate emerging needs and build recovery models
3. Build capacity for a robust recovery

The THRIVE Winter Park Steering Committee include:

Larry Adams, ACI

Rick Baldwin, Baldwin Brothers Funerals & Cremations

James Barnes, Jr., Jambarco

Justin Birmele, AdventHealth

William (Billy) Bishop, Bishop Beale Duncan

Ansley Butts, Monkee’s of Winter Park

Mike Carolan, Winderweedle, Haines, Ward & Woodman, P.A.

John Caron, EIA Social Enterprise Fund I, Tijuana Flats

Grant & Peg Cornwell, Rollins College

H. Craig Delongy, John Craig Clothier

Betsy Gardner Eckbert, Winter Park Chamber of Commerce

Lawrie Platt Hall, Platt Hall and Associates

Jane Hames, Embassy Consultants

Frank Hamner, Frank Hamner, PA

Carroll Hanley Goggin, DBG Promotions

Michelle Heatherly, Demetree Global

Charlene Hotaling, Seacoast Bank

Allan E. Keen, The Keewin Real Property Company

Tracy Klingler, Frank

Mike Lombardi, Lombardi's

Lawrence Lyman, Tactical Electronics

Patty Maddox, Winter Park Health Foundation

Debbie Magruder, Full Sail University

Jesse Martinez, The Alfond Inn at Rollins

Joanne McMahon, JM Hospitality

David Odahowski, Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation

John Riley, Legacy Fund

Jason Rottenberg, Arsenal Venture Partners

Bill Segal, William Segal Inc

Sam Stark, Rollins College

Harold Ward, Winderweedle, Haines, Ward & Woodman, P.A.