TGH Foundation Honors Companies for Impactful Giving at their Annual Corporate Philanthropy Partners Breakfast

The Jan. 31 event also inducted seven Tampa Bay area corporations into the Gordon Keller Society for donations totaling $1 million or more. 

Tampa, FL (Feb. 3, 2025) – The generosity of Tampa Bay area corporations has long helped power the world-class care provided by Tampa General Hospital (TGH). In the continued spirit of appreciation, the TGH Foundation held its third annual Corporate Philanthropy Partners Program breakfast Jan. 31 honoring corporations and corporate foundations for their generous donations of more than $25,000 per year.

The event featured a panel with Tampa General Executive Vice President and Chief Digital and Innovation Officer Scott Arnold, Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer Stacey Brandt and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Mark Runyon, moderated by Frann Leppla, Executive Vice President and Chief Philanthropy Officer. And for the first time, the breakfast welcomed corporate donors into the Tampa General Gordon Keller Society at the Visionary Level, recognizing corporations with a lifetime giving of $1 million or more.

“Our team has been focused on creating meaningful opportunities for our corporate partners to engage in truly impactful philanthropy. Each of these amazing corporations have done just that,” Leppla said. “This event allowed us to show our deep gratitude to local companies whose support has made it possible for Tampa General to provide leading-edge care to patients around the region, state and beyond.”

These companies have reached the prestigious Gordon Keller milestone:

• Belcher Pharmaceuticals

• Florida Orthopaedic Institute

• Kimmins Contracting Corp.

• McNICHOLS CO.

• The Tampa Bay Lightning

• Tampa Bay Steel Corp.

• TECO

As for the society’s namesake, Keller was a Tampa civic leader who was honored with a hospital bearing his name on North Boulevard in 1910, along with the Gordon Keller School of Nursing. The hospital was moved to Davis Islands in 1926 and renamed Tampa Municipal Hospital and became Tampa General Hospital in 1956. The Gordon Keller School of Nursing, meanwhile, has been gone since 1972, but nursing students throughout the Tampa Bay area train today at Tampa General.

Induction into the Gordon Keller Society represents a pinnacle of recognition in the TGH Foundation’s Corporate Philanthropy Partners (CPP) program. It consists of corporations and corporate foundations whose values align with the mission of the TGH Foundation: to support the programs and services of Tampa General Hospital and its goal to become the safest and most innovative academic health system in America.

For more information, please visit www.tgh.org/cpp or email CPP@TGH.org.