NCEF awards record $34M in grants to children’s charities

After a record-setting 2025 Naples Winter Wine Festival, Naples Children & Education Foundation announced on March 17 more than $34 million in grants to nearly 50 Collier County children’s charities at a reception held at The Ritz-Carlton Naples, Tiburón.

The nonprofits receiving the grants provide a wide range of services to support underprivileged at-risk children. This year’s grants include an $8 million investment to drive enrichment and expansion of early learning opportunities to close what NCEF calls “persistent gaps in early childhood education.”

In making the announcement, NCEF CEO Maria Jimenez-Lara extended thanks to the NWWF patrons “whose generosity far exceeds anything beyond extraordinary.”

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