Educating kids with special needs
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FOX 13's Mark Wilson highlights Pepin Academies, a Bay Area charter school celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2025. Pepin Academies teaches life skills and offers specialized education to kids with special needs and learning disabilities in "What's Right with Tampa Bay."

Seniors making beanies for premature babies
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FOX 13's Mark Wilson highlights ?Beanies 4 Babies,' a group of Lutz Senior Citizens that has made almost 40,000 beanies for premature babies since launching to support their community in What' Right with Tampa Bay.

Lutz Senior Center volunteers making beanies for premature babies

A generous organization is helping premature babies by knitting hats for them. Leading the charge here in our area are volunteers at the Lutz Senior Center.

Signal Box Art Project boosts creativity on the streets
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FOX 13's Mark Wilson highlights Signal Box Art Project, a unique project that brings a splash of art to the streets of Tampa Bay by bringing many ordinary sidewalks and street corners in the Bay Area bursts of color in What's Right with Tampa Bay.

1 Voice Foundation and Celebrate Birthdays team up
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Two local organizations teamed up three years ago to bring smiles to families fighting a tough battle. Since then, 1 Voice Foundation and Celebrate Birthdays have been hosting personalized birthday parties.

Personalized birthday's for families navigating the challenges of pediatric cancer

Two local organizations teamed up three years ago to bring smiles to families fighting a tough battle. Since then, 1 Voice Foundation and Celebrate Birthdays have been hosting personalized birthday parties.

Seniors blowing the harmony
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FOX 13's Mark Wilson reports on a group of senior citizens blowing sweet music in their golden years through the Gulfport Harmonica Club, which meets weekly to make music together in What's Right with Tampa Bay.

Tampa man experiences biblical stories through art
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FOX 13's Mark Wilson highlights John Briggs, who was commissioned to create biblical paintings depicting stories like Moses with the Ten Commandments for the Queen of Peace Church in Plant City in What's Right with Tampa Bay.

Tampa program teaching girls about finance
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FOX 13's Mark Wilson highlights Pace for Girls, a Tampa program that prepares young women for a secure future by teaching life-changing financial lessons to girls ages 12-17 in What?s Right with Tampa Bay.

Tampa program preparing young women for their financial future

At Pace for Girls, students are learning life-changing lessons about finances. Pace is a year-round program that offers counseling, academic and life skills to girls ages 12-to-17.

Nonprofit re-planting trees lost to recent storms
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FOX 13's Mark Wilson highlights Take MAR, a grassroots organization in the Tampa Bay Area that is on a mission to replenish trees and restore greenery to communities devastated by Hurricanes Helene and Milton, in What's Right with Tampa Bay.

Bay Area nonprofit re-planting trees lost to recent storms

In the aftermath of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, the grassroots organization Take MAR is on a mission to replenish trees and bring greenery back to Bay Area communities.

Cuban restaurant in Riverview overcoming obstacles
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In What's Right with Tampa Bay, FOX 13's Mark Wilson highlights Little Habana Cafe, an authentic Cuban spot in Riverview, making strides to return to normalcy after facing obstacles in the last few years.

Tampa woman's mission to save at-risk kids
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FOX 13's Mark Wilson highlights Stephanie Turner is on a mission to help children at risk of being human trafficked after escaping human trafficking herself over a decade ago in What's Right with Tampa Bay.

Tampa woman helps at-risk children after escaping human trafficking

After escaping human trafficking more than 10 years ago, a Tampa woman is dedicating her life to helping children who are at risk of the same fate.