Leadership Florida Presents Hope Community Center with the 2022 Florida Impact Award

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Hope CommUnity Center, Inc. (“Hope”), a non-profit organization located in Apopka, Florida, received the 2022 Florida Impact Award from Leadership Florida. The award was announced on June 25 at Leadership Florida’s Annual Meeting in Orlando.

The Florida Impact Award recognizes a business or nonprofit organization that has created a specific project or body of work whose impact is currently transforming the future of its region or beyond and has the potential to transform Florida as a whole.

“We are honored to recognize the outstanding work being done by Hope CommUnity Center,” said Wendy Spencer, president and CEO of Leadership Florida. “Their work with some of our most vulnerable populations is making a significant impact on the lives of everyone they work with as well as their community as a whole.”

Hope is dedicated to uplifting Central Florida's immigrant and working poor communities through educational opportunities—including English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), elementary and high school tutoring, college and career counseling and scholarships—rental assistance, food distribution and immigration services.

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