Published Articles

Medical group opens site at mental health center

Imagine finishing an appointment with a mental health counselor and walking a minute or two to a different building for a primary care visit. The convenience is possible because the Healthcare Network of Southwest Florida…

Apr. 292017

NCEF, Goldman Sachs Join Forces in Immokalee for Healthy Campus Project

The Naples Children & Education Foundation has some powerful friends coming to the rescue. Earlier this week, representatives from Goldman Sachs devoted a day of volunteer work at the FSU Healthy Campus, one of NCEF’s…

Apr. 262017

Volunteers spend the day in Immokalee planting fruit trees

Nearly two dozen people who normally spend their days in offices traded computer screens for shovels Tuesday. Bankers, lawyers, office workers and veterans worked side by side for the day as volunteers planting fruit trees…

Apr. 252017

Naples Winter Wine Festival announces 2018 theme; dates

The organizers of the Naples Winter Wine Festival are already gearing up for next year’s event and named Naples Children & Education Foundation Trustees Becky and Lewie Card, Susie and David McCurry, and Kathy and Dan Mezzalingua as co-chairs.

Grant will help foundation help Immokalee’s youngest readers

True to its name, the Naples Children & Education Foundation recently awarded $200,000 for children’s education to The Immokalee Foundation. The grant was among the awards given to local charities and long-term initiatives for underprivileged…

Out & About

Matching skills with her beliefs for the NCEF

Maria Jimenez-Lara’s life’s work has corresponded perfectly with her personal beliefs. The CEO of the Naples Children & Education Foundation, Mrs. Jimenez- Lara has spent almost her entire 25-year professional career working for nonprofit organizations.

Naples Winter Wine Festival Ranks #1 Again on Wine Spectator’s List of Top Charity Wine Auctions

The Naples Winter Wine Festival has once again topped Wine Spectator Magazine’s list of the highest-earning charity wine auctions in the country, marking the 11th time the Festival has earned this illustrious title since its…