Best Local Charitable Group
Second Harvest Food Bank
Readers' Choice
1. Second Harvest Food Bank, feedhopenow.org
2. Make-A-Wish Central and Northern Florida, cnfl.wish.org
3. Yellow Brick Road: The Holden Flynn Foundation, ybrf.org
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