You've got to have heart, and more than 600 people showed up at the annual Heart Ball to prove that they do. So did TV celebrities and a "Dunk City" star or two.

Do you remember that comforting labor and delivery nurse who held your hand when you delivered your baby? How about that special social worker who helped your family member with their new baby? What about the neonatologist who cared for ...

Sam Galloway Ford is teaming up with Community Cooperative Ministries, Inc. (CCMI) to win the battle against hunger in our community with the second annual Summer Drive for Hunger to benefit the hunger-fighting nonprofit agency.

Since inception in 2003, the Physician Led Access Network (PLAN) has donated more than $18 million of specialty medical care to more than 3,000 low income uninsured patients in Collier County. In recognition of this generous contribution to the health ...

Love That Dress is the ultimate feel-good ladies night out shopping spree of the year benefiting PACE Center for Girls. This year, Lee County is celebrating the fifth Anniversary of Love That Dress (LTD).

In just its second year, A Swing of Grace raised more than $70,000 on May 3, bringing the golf outing’s cumulative total to more than $100,000.

The Southwest Florida Regional Coalition Against Human Trafficking celebrates its eighth anniversary this month and continues to lead the way in victim identification and rehabilitation efforts in Florida.

Volunteers from Keller Williams Realty Naples worked at Collier County’s National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Inc. painting, cleaning, planting gardens and organizing therapeutic equipment in the crafts room.

In honor of CEO David Schimmel and his wife Debi, an anonymous donor has gifted the David Lawrence Center $100,000 in appreciation for his years of service to the center and the mental health community.

At the beginning of May, the Lee County Homeless Coalition, in partnership with the Lee County Department of Human Services, The Housing Authority of the City of Fort Myers, Veterans Affairs, American Red Cross and the American Legion Post 38 ...

For the second consecutive year, the Guadalupe Center of Immokalee received a $15,000 grant from Publix Super Market Charities. The grant is part of the 2012 Holiday Food for All Campaign, which is focused on hunger relief as well as ...

The Boys & Girls Club of Collier County (BGCCC) received Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s prestigious Marketing and Communications (MAC) Award during the organization’s annual national conference in Orlando, Fla.

As part of its mission to preserve Naples history, Naples Historical Society launched the Council of Longtime Friends on May 3. The Council is a formal consortium comprised of self-described old timers, whose mission is to identify missing pieces from ...

The David Lawrence Center recently installed its board of directors for the 2013 calendar year. Each officer will serve a one year term.

The Safe Kids Lee/Collier Counties lookout cookout and safety fair at Gulf Coast Town Center in recognition of Safe Kids Day, will be held May 18 from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m.