Sanfording

09/01/2026

08/13/2026

🦥$69,076.60 RAISED FOR SLOTH CONSERVATION! 🦥

Sanford Main Street is officially wrapping up the Sloth Conservation Fundraiser, and we are blown away by what this community—and sloth lovers across the country—accomplished together. This past Monday at the City of Sanford commission meeting, we had the honor of presenting a check for $69,076.60 to our incredible partners at the Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens!

Thanks to your overwhelming support, we sold over 3,000 shirts across 44 states and Puerto Rico! What started as a local initiative truly went viral, with 100% of proceeds going directly to sloth conservation efforts.

This massive success wouldn't have been possible without an amazing community working behind the scenes. A huge THANK YOU to:

Everyone who bought a shirt or shared our posts to help spread the word and push this campaign viral!

Our incredible team of volunteers who generously donated 200+ hours of their time packing and shipping thousands of packages.

Whisker Works for managing all the shipping logistics and making sure every single shirt got to where it was supposed to go.

Sunshine State Threads for printing thousands of shirts so quickly and staying on top of these orders.

Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens for being such fantastic partners throughout this collaboration.

🛍️ Missed out on the online release?
Soon you will be able grab your "Help Us Hang In There!" shirt in person at the Central Florida Zoo’s gift shop!

Plus, this is just the beginning. Sanford Main Street is continuing our partnership with the Zoo to keep exclusive, cool designs in the gift shop moving forward. Look out for more to come in the future! 🦥✨

Photo credit 📷 to Mary Helen Norris at City of Sanford, FL Government

05/07/2026

Downtown Sanford is coming together for the sloths. 🦥💚

After the heartbreaking rescue of 13 sloths from the failed “Sloth World” facility in Orlando, the team at Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens has been working nonstop to give these animals the care they deserve. Sadly, some have passed due to severe neglect and malnutrition, but the fight to save the remaining sloths continues. 🌿

To help support their medical care and rehabilitation, Sanford Main Street is selling “Help Us Hang In There” fundraiser t-shirts, with 100% of proceeds going directly to the sloth rescue efforts. 🙌

🦥 $35 Unisex Tees📍Sanford Information Center, 230 E. 1st St. in Downtown Sanford

Huge shoutout to the Sanford Main Street board members, Patty Mahany for helping make this happen, Ashley Schmidt for the creative t-shirt design, and to Sunshine State Threads for the lightning-fast turnaround! 👏

Grab a shirt, spread the word, and help these sweet babies hang in there. 💚