NCEF Awards More Than $15 Million to SWFL Nonprofits

Forty-seven organizations received money raised during the annual Naples Winter Wine Festival.

Mar. 23, 2018

11:02 a.m.

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The festivities have died down, but the 2018 Naples Winter Wine Festival will live on.

Earlier this week, the Naples Children & Education Foundation (the foundation behind the wine fest) announced the recipients of the $15.1 million raised during the festival. Money went to 47 children's nonprofits, including several that carry out specific NCEF strategic initiatives.

Since starting in 2001, the wine festival has raised more than $176 million.

Organization	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

Strategic Initiative Partners
Children’s Early Learning Initiative ABLE Academy Early Learning Coalition Early Literacy & Learning Model (ELLM) Redlands Christian Migrant Association	$995,000
Children’s Hunger Initiative Harry Chapin Food Bank of SWFL Meals of Hope	$1,200,000
Children’s Mental Health Initiative David Lawrence Center Golisano Children’s Hospital National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)	$2,365,000
Children’s Out-of-School Time Initiative Boys & Girls Club of Collier County Guadalupe Center Redlands Christian Migrant Association Southwest Florida Workforce Development Board-Miracle Afterschool Program The Immokalee Foundation	$2,092,000
Children’s Oral Health Initiative University of Florida College of Dentistry	$1,200,000
Children’s Vision Initiative Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Florida Eye Clinic Florida’s Vision Quest Golisano Children’s Hospital Lighthouse of Collier	$979,568
NCEF College and Technical Career Empowerment	$500,000

Grand total awarded on March 19

$15,182,088

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