Cindy Ross honored as a Community Hero by the Lightning Foundation

Program will donate $50,000 to a local non-profit

Cindy Ross, FCLF Community Development Loan Officer, has been honored as a Lightning Community Hero by the Tampa Bay Lightning Foundation. The Community Hero Program will make a donation of $50,000 to the non-profit organization Starting Right, Now, in Cindy's honor. The recognition took place at the hockey game on December 19; you can read more on the Lightning website here. (Photo at right from Tampa Bay Lightning.)

Cindy Ross joined the Florida Community Loan Fund in 1996, and was FCLF's second employee. Since that time she has worked with over 100 nonprofit organizations throughout the state with loan capital to help FCLF meet our mission of helping our borrowers' projects succeed. Ms. Ross is very involved in her community through volunteer activities as well. Starting Right, Now matches homeless families and unaccompanied youth with a mentor, and Cindy was nominated for the Lightning Community Hero award as a result of her work as a Starting Right, Now mentor.

The Lightning Community Heroes program was launched in 2011 by Lightning owner Jeff Vinik and his wife Penny, to distribute $10 million dollars to deserving local nonprofits in the Tampa Bay community over a 5-year period. Click here to read more information on the Lightning Community Heroes Program.

For more information on Cindy Ross and her work with Florida Community Loan Fund, click here.