Odd, Unexplained Payments Raise More Questions About Hope Florida

Odd, unexplained payments raise more questions about Hope Florida

Hope Florida's charitable giving seems haphazard, its guidelines for providing help unclear and its record-keeping incomplete, posing a potential issue with state and federal auditors, an Orlando Sentinel review found.

Odd, unexplained payments raise more questions about Hope Florida - Finnoexpert

TALLAHASSEE — The call to Skip Simmons, CEO of a mentorship program in Volusia County, came from out of the blue. One evening in December of 2022, he said, someone from the governor’s office phoned and told him to show up in Ormond Beach the next day for a roundtable discussion about family services. Expect a surprise, he was told. The secretary of the Florida Department of Children and Families was at that next-day meeting, explaining her visio…