Naples Winter Wine Festival raised over $15M in January. Here's where that money will go.
Forty-seven nonprofit organizations in Southwest Florida received grants totaling more than $15.1 million from the Naples Children & Education Foundation. The funds were raised during the Naples Winter Wine Festival in January.
The funds support a variety of programs that improve the physical, emotional and educational lives of children in Collier County.
Here are the beneficiaries and how much money was allocated to them:
Organization and its allocation
ABLE Academy — $191,400
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Sun Coast — $100,000
Boys & Girls Club of Collier County — $450,000
Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation — $75,000
Catholic Charities of Collier County — $180,000
Champions For Learning — $85,000
Collier Child Care Resources — $125,000
Collier County Child Advocacy Council — $426,300
Conservancy of Southwest Florida — $19,140
*Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation — $150,000
FlourishNow-Safe Families — $130,500
Friends of Foster Children Forever — $339,450
Fun Time Early Childhood Academy — $136,590
Gargiulo Education Center — $52,200
Golisano Children's Museum of Naples — $100,000
*Good Wheels — $75,000
Grace Place for Children & Families — $330,600
Guadalupe Center — $522,000
Legal Aid Service of Collier County — $500,250
Literacy Volunteers of Collier County — $34,800
MusicScores! — $40,000
Naples Botanical Garden — $75,000
Naples Therapeutic Riding Center — $174,000
NCH Safe & Healthy Children's Coalition of Collier County — $45,240
Pathways Early Education Center of Immokalee — $200,100
Redlands Christian Migrant Association — $160,950
Special Olympics — $65,250
St. Matthew's House — $50,000
The Greater Marco Family YMCA — $317,550
The Shelter for Abused Women & Children — $269,700
United Arts Council of Collier County — $50,000
Valerie's House — $75,000
Youth Haven — $304,500
Grant Total — $5,850,520
Strategic Initiative Partners
Children’s Early Learning Initiative — $995,000
- ABLE Academy
- Early Learning Coalition
- Early Literacy & Learning Model
- Redlands Christian Migrant Association
Children’s Hunger Initiative — $1,200,000
- Harry Chapin Food Bank of SWFL
- Meals of Hope
Children’s Mental Health Initiative — $2,365,000
- David Lawrence Center
- Golisano Children’s Hospital
- National Alliance on Mental Illness
Children’s Out-of-School Time Initiative — $2,092,000
- Boys & Girls Club of Collier County
- Guadalupe Center
- Redlands Christian Migrant Association
- Southwest Florida Workforce Development Board-Miracle Afterschool Program
- The Immokalee Foundation
Children’s Oral Health Initiative — $1,200,000
- University of Florida College of Dentistry
Children’s Vision Initiative — $979,568
- Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
- Florida Eye Clinic
- Florida’s Vision Quest
- Golisano Children’s Hospital
- Lighthouse of Collier
*NCEF College and Technical Career Empowerment — $500,000
Strategic Initiative Total — $9,331,568
Total Awarded on March 19 — $15,182,088
(*Organizations that were not previously funded by NCEF)
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