Written by Jemzee Barrett Editor Lehigh Acres Gazette
P.I.F.L.A. Inc stands for Pay to Forward Lehigh Acres and was started by Tracy LaVallee.
At first the P.I.F.L.A. organization did wonderful things in Lehigh Acres organized food & clothing drives but on Sept 23, 2016 State of Florida dissolved the non-for profit corporation. And the donations that were spent on a IRS 501c3 certification has been wasted.
Just last month the P.I.F.L.A. organization asked for donations but they cannot legally take donations of any kind. But some members of the Lehigh Acres Community Neighborhood Watch Group that were unware P.I.F.L.A. organization issues donated items for Christmas gifts.
On Facebook, LaValle was asked about the donations, she said, “We do not take money. All money donated is donated to our partnering nonprofits”. But this daisy chaining of donations is still illegally under IRS rules.
Lehigh Acres has lots of very good charitable organization, but currently P.I.F.L.A. is during a Christmas Toy drive involving the following organizations that may or may not know about P.I.F.L.A. Inc issues.
Access Real Estate, Lee County Sheriff’s Office, AMVETS Post 65 in Cape Coral, Lehigh Acres Initiative group and Mothers Empowering Other Women.
Please before you donate your hard earn money and time always please take the time and check out charitable organization first.
Other than trashing a really good organization that helps needy families in Lehigh, what purpose was this story? It certainly is not well written. Did you bother to interview the principals or is this just another hit piece?
Facts or the Facts P.I.F.L.A. Inc Has Been Dissolved by The State of Florida People need to so their homework before giving their hard owned money and time
This is just Robert Anderson hating on Lehigh Acres AGAIN!!
Mr. Anderson was reporting the news since Nov 9th Anderson is not running the day to day operations of the newspaper.