Thank you to all that have donated to the Logan’s Love Foundation and have generously volunteered or provided funding to support causes so important to Logan and our family. The impact and goodwill of so many has been truly inspiring. Being with others and volunteering makes all the difference.
Following two hurricanes, Logan’s Love family and friends raised over $2,500 to help repair the Tampa Bay Watch Environmental Center. We also volunteered to place oyster bags and reef balls to help protect shorelines, purify the water, and attract more wildlife to the Tampa Bay area. One of the reef balls had a plaque attached in memory of our sweet Logan who loved the outdoors and was passionate about protecting the environment.Wonderful to attend the partner event at Mary Lee’s House to help protect and advocate for children in need. Helen also baked several Thanksgiving pies for the wonderful staff and agencies that Mary Lee’s House supports.Annual neighborhood Thanksgiving food drive for Metropolitan Ministries. Over 300 pounds of food was donated thanks to the generosity of our friends at Huntington Trails.Success! 180 Easter Baskets delivered to John Hopkins Children’s Hospital in St. Pete in partnership with Easter for Eli and Espirtu Santo Catholic School.Small hands make a big difference. Helen’s second-grade Sunday school class decorated and filled holiday bags with love and inspiring messages for Madi’s Movement foster care teens.Cayden and his cousins Ava and Kaylee working on the the pollination garden at Mullet Creek in Safety Harbor to celebrate Logan’s birthday. This is a special place maintained by the Safety Harbor Garden Club.It was an honor to donate $2,135 to Tampa Bay Watch to support their summer camp program and support children who otherwise wouldn’t be able to participate in their outdoor nature program. The best part was having friends and family match our Logan’s Love donation!As part of the Great American Clean Up, Cayden and his crew along with a total of 30 volunteers helped to collect over 326 pounds of trash. Thank you Liv, Jack, Brenden, Brian, Adam, Mat, Julio, and our sweet niece Ava for volunteering!Thanks to the help of the religious education students at Espiritu Santo Catholic Church (and our niece Ava), we donated several gift bags and cards to Pinellas Hope. The children also helped us assemble candy cane reindeers and holiday cards which we hand delivered to over 50 residents at the local senior home to spread the joy of the holiday season.Logan’s Love volunteered with Tampa Bay Watch and sponsored lunch for 46 hard-working volunteers from the Tampa Bay Rays and Jabil. The group installed over 770 bags (15 tons) of new oyster beds in Lansing Park, St. Pete. The project will help to restore lost habitat systems to the bay, prevent further erosion of the shoreline, and improve water quality through natural biological filtration. Special thanks to Kenny Alexander at Big Red BBQ for a great lunch!Helping out the Safety Harbor Garden Club with a pollination pathway at Folly Farms. Just love this group’s positive vibe and how they bring beauty and love to our community. They work hard and play hard!Volunteering with Tampa Bay Watch on a restoration project to transport and place hundreds of shell bags to prevent shore erosion. The shell bags attract oysters that create a barrier and filter and clean the water to reduce the damage from pollution runoff into the bay. They are smart and have incredibly dedicated and hard working staff and volunteers.Such a great day working alongside Leadership Tampa Alumni for Habitat for Humanity. They are doing incredible work in Tampa (32 houses planned this year) and around the world in over 70 countries providing affordable housing for so many that need a hand up. We literally “raised the roof”.Crissy Mortensen hosted a sound bath meditation at Blend Sweat Social yoga studio in Safety, Harbor, FL with donations supporting Logan’s Love causes. It was a relaxing day of connection, positive vibes, and a great time with friends and family.Volunteering with Cayden and his crew (Isaiah, Jack, Brendon, and Sammy) at Metropolitan Ministries in the grocery store and daycare.Logan’s Love volunteered with the Safety Harbor Garden Club to donate a waterfall fountain and garden featuring a wireframe Folly Fairy sculpture created by local artists Bethani Randolph and Kumpa Tawornprom at Folly Farms in Safety Harbor. This beautification project was wonderful way to bring together our community and to fund raise and support several local charities. The event was sponsored by Tampa General.Logan’s Love hosted a beach yoga/meditation followed by a beach beautification and clean up at Sand Key Park, FL. Proceeds benefited Huddle in the Harbor supporting women in need. A big thank you to Larkin Stetler for the inspiring and relaxing yoga experience.
The weekend of National Daughter’s Day, we remembered our sweet Logan and gathered with friends at Honeymoon Beach, FL for a beach clean-up with Lori Landmeyer, teacher (and Helen’s sister), and her wonderful students from Clearwater Central Catholic. The same weekend, we also cleaned up the area surrounding the Safety Harbor Museum and park area in Safety Harbor, FL.
Logan’s Love partnered with the Safety Harbor Garden Club to plant a garden on World Honeybee Day to help beautify the community. Leading up to the event, 33 acts of kindness inspired others to #Bee the Light and make the world a little sweeter.The YMCA Camp Kon-O-Kwee Spencer has rebuilt the Trail of Courage agility course…a family favorite at camp. The Logan’s Love Foundation has donated $2,200 with the support of family and friends to support the project in loving memory of Uncle John Kobasa and his daughter Shelley.We came together for Logan’s Love Sunset Beach Yoga where we raised over $1,500 for Mary Lee’s House who helps more than 2,500 abused or neglected children each year AND Metropolitan Ministries, who makes Thanksgiving and Christmas possible for over 30,000 families and so many in need of hope throughout the year. Thank you Amy Amerell for leading the inspirational and challenging class!Logan’s Love hosted a 333 Cheers Wine event at Narcisi Winery in Gibsonia, PA. Over $4,500 was raised to benefit NPH Orphanage in Honduras where Logan had volunteered as part of a mission group through the YMCA. Donations also supported the Seneca Valley Junior Football and Cheer Association Logan Helene Renshaw Scholarship Fund where Logan had attended high school. Thank you to the 60 amazing friends and family that volunteered, gave auction items, and donated to these causes!Beach Clean up at Honeymoon Beach, FL with Keep Pinellas Beautiful.Beach clean up at Indian Rocks Beach, FL. We picked up 41 pounds of trash.We dedicated a Cabin for Kids at the YMCA Camp Kon-O-Kwee Spencer in Fombell, PA in memory of Logan, making it possible for more children to go to camp and have a life-changing experience. Thanks to so many that donated and fund raised for this project over the past year. A special thanks to Matt Weaver who donated his company’s profits for the month of November to this cause plus the hundreds of other donors that supported us…just amazing!Each year, Logan’s Love volunteers with so many others to help provide over 6,000 meals for the Christmas holiday at Metropolitan Ministries. The staff and volunteers are a true inspiration!Logan’s Love hosted a Beach Clean Up and Barbecue with Keep Pinellas Beautiful at Sand Key State Park, Clearwater, FL where we collected over 111 pounds of trash.Thanks to so many that contributed delicious baked goods, we were able to have a fundraiser at Family Faith Fest. All funds were donated to causes important to Logan.Sunset Beach Yoga at Honeymoon Beach, FL with over 50 attendees. A relaxing time and a great way to make new friends. Thank you Alex Cordoba and Yoga 365 for an incredible yoga experience!Logan’s Love beach clean up and planting of two butterfly gardens at FIU University, 30 attendees and over 90 volunteer hours—hosted by Wyatt Panaccione with support from the FIU School of Environment, Arts, and Society (SEAS).
