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Community Foundation presents county needs update: poverty, health access and student homelessness flagged
Summary
Jeff Pickering of the Indian River Community Foundation presented a 2025 community needs update highlighting persistent poverty, health-care access issues, and a record number of students experiencing homelessness, while reporting nonprofit sector revenue and grant activity.
Jeff Pickering, president and CEO of the Indian River Community Foundation, briefed the council on the foundation's 2025 community needs update and the Indian River Indicators data resource.
Pickering summarized three outlier findings: (1) infant and maternal health and the need to preserve local maternity services; (2) a contrast between education performance (some metrics improving) and pockets of dissatisfaction; and…
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