Tampa Bay foster care nonprofit launches next phase of $8M campaign

A Kid’s Place of Tampa Bay (AKPTB), a nonprofit focused on providing housing and support services to youth in foster care in Hillsborough, Pinellas and Polk Counties, recently launched the public portion of its $8 million Building a Brighter Future capital campaign.

The campaign launched in February 2023 and has since raised $5 million. The funds are earmarked for the acquisition of a 2-acre property and construction of a 12,000-square-foot activity center on AKPTB’s campus in Brandon, just outside Tampa, as well as the renovation of a home for additional extended foster care housing.

The new center will feature a larger indoor gathering space for group celebrations, multiuse rooms for therapy, family visitation, vocational education and community involvement, a computer lab, an outdoor basketball court, an exercise room and swimming pool. Construction is set to begin in early 2025.