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SEASON SOIRÉES
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look at last season’s events
SHOP FOR A CAUSE
Feel good about retail therapy by purchasing items that give back | By Marisa Cioffi
WITH A PURPOSE
On the cover
Shining a spotlight on three local organizations and events, from the roaring twenties, to penguins and more | By Rona Gindin
Upon conceptualizing the 2018-2019 issue of the Naples Charity Register, the editors WHAT’S IN A NAME? unanimously decided to stick An endowment that results in naming rights is with a good thing. For the fifth the gift that keeps giving | By Judy Martel year in a row, we ran a cover contest open to all local art SWEET CHARITY ists, asking them to show us Profiles of local restaurants serving up hefty their vision of philanthropy in portions of support | By Nancy Mattia Naples, and the response was WATER WORLD overwhelming. Our winning Become one with the sea in an array of colorful, cover image, entitled Cabaret ocean-inspired jewelry | By Mary Murray Nights, was painted by Naples resident and award-winning CHARITY LISTINGS artist Janine Wesselmann, The ultimate guide to the area’s social happenings known for her complex and provocative parodies of EuroCALENDAR OF EVENTS pean and American social life. A compilation of major fundraisers taking place Wesselmann has been listed on the Paradise Coast in 2018 and 2019 in “Who’s Who in the World” and “Who’s Who of American FINAL SCENES An afternoon brimming with style Women” since 1983.
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