The Lighthouse Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3), nonprofit organization that assists underserved children and their families. This support comes through the deployment of LLF’s volunteers. Volunteers work with children in an array of different facilities and environments ranging but not limited to, homeless shelters, hospitals, and youth centers.
In 2004, Little Lighthouse Founder Robert Sena moved from New York City to Miami and operated the Miami chapter of his favorite New York City-based organization. In 2010, he decided it was in the best interest of the facilities and children he served in the Miami area to create an organization based and operated in South Florida. Recruiting the help of active LLF board members and co-founders Aaron Resnick and Charlie Venturi, LLF was born in January 2010. LLF then launched its first program, Adopt-a-Meal, at Ronald McDonald House Charities (“RMHC”) where volunteers serve meals to the families of children receiving treatment at nearby hospitals.
This support is derived from recruiting and educating passionate, caring, socially conscious South Floridians, and then deploying them throughout LLF programming and beneficiary charities. In addition, LLF raises monies to provide direct support to children and their families within its mission. Through a new paradigm of fundraising and awareness, LLF financially supports its own programming and numerous partner organizations throughout South Florida, along with dispatching hundreds of volunteers who donate their time and hearts.