Peggy B. Sapp, B.S.

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Mrs. Peggy Sapp is President and CEO of Informed Families/The Florida Family Partnership, an organization she helped to create more than 44 years ago. Under her leadership, the agency grew from a six-volunteer grassroots effort into a multi-million-dollar organization with state and national outreach serving families, schools, and communities. The mission of Informed Families is “helping kids grow up safe, healthy, and drug-free.”

A nationally recognized leader in drug prevention and grassroots advocacy, Mrs. Sapp has dedicated her career to mobilizing families and communities to protect children. She has received numerous honors for her service and has served on advisory councils for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the Florida Governor’s Drug Policy Advisory Council. Mrs. Sapp has also testified before Congress and has been called upon as a community expert by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in support of Abuse Deterrent Formulations.

Mrs. Sapp developed the Red Ribbon Campaign into an annual national event that has become one of the most powerful prevention movements in the country, raising awareness and mobilizing communities in the fight against drugs and reaching an estimated 80 million people nationwide each year.
She also serves as the volunteer President of the National Family Partnership, a national network of parenting organizations dedicated to prevention
and family engagement.

Peggy attended the University of Maryland and is an honors graduate of Barry University. She was awarded a scholarship from the South Florida Harvard Business School Alumni Association to attend Harvard Business School, where she earned a certificate in Nonprofit Strategic Planning. Somewhere, somehow, Mrs. Sapp’s work has touched countless lives and helped make it easier for children to grow up drug-free.

Her many honors include the National Parents’ Day Award, Lighting the Way to a New Millennium from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (1999); the National Visionary Leader Award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (2004); Miami-Dade Medical Association Citizen of the Year (2007); the Concern Award from the Health Foundation of South Florida (2007); the Movers & Shakers Award from South Florida Business Journal (2011); and the Rotary Club of Miami Distinguished Citizen Award (2019).

Mrs. Sapp is the widow of Captain Neil C. Sapp, the mother of two daughters, Erin and Kerrie, mother-in-law to Dan Beldy and Jeff Lunsford, and the proud grandmother of seven grandchildren.