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Sep. 172021Chef de Cuisine named for 22nd Annual Naples Winter Wine Festival
Florida Weekly
The Naples Children & Education Foundation, founders of the Naples Winter Wine Festival, announced that James Beard Foundation Award winner Nancy Oakes, executive chef/owner of Boulevard Restaurant in San Francisco, will be honored as Chef…
read more May. 252021
2022 Naples Winter Wine Festival to resume in-person tradition
Naples Daily News
The 2022 Naples Winter Wine Festival will return to its in-person tradition for its 22nd iteration. The event, under the theme “Rise Up — Twenty Twenty Twogether” will run Jan. 27-30 according to a news release from…
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May. 132021Golf Fore Kids Pro-Am at The Old Collier Golf Club
Florida Weekly
Participants at Naples Children & Education Foundation’s Golf Fore Kids Pro-Am recently enjoyed a casual lunch and clinic on the driving range, an 18-hole tournament with four golf professionals — Peter Jacobsen, Bobby Clampett, Dudley…
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Apr. 082021Local foundations launch Collier CARES application for families in need
Florida Weekly
The Naples Children & Education Foundation (NCEF), founders of the Naples Winter Wine Festival, in partnership with the Community Foundation of Collier County and Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation, announced the public launch of a…
read more Mar. 182021
Fundraising 2021: Personal python hunts, dinner on the 50-yard line, stay-home galas
Naples Daily News
If you’ve dreamed of stalking pythons in the Everglades at night or bidding on $10,000 lots of wine in your bathrobe, you’ve come to the right year.
read more Mar. 162021
Naples Children & Education Foundation awards more than $9 million to help at-risk children
Naples Daily News
The Naples Children & Education Foundation has awarded more than $9 million in grants to almost 40 local nonprofits whose work improves the lives of at-risk children in Collier County.
read more Feb. 102021
Scaling Heights
Gulfshore Life
Anyone in Naples can tell you, the last weekend in January is the Naples Winter Wine Festival weekend. This year, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the streets may not have been buzzing with celebrity chef sightings, but…
read more Feb. 092021
Naples Winter Wine Festival online auction breaks record, raising $678,000
Naples Daily News
The Naples Winter Wine Festival’s seventh annual online auction raised a record $678,000. The 2021 festival, founded by the Naples Children and Education Foundation, comprised an online auction Jan. 22-Feb. 2; an hour-long broadcast on WINK-TV…
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