Awards & Recognition

For the third consecutive year, Sanibel Captiva Community Bank has been named the Best Bank in The News-Press’ 2023 Best of the Best Fort Myers Community Choice Awards. For a second consecutive year, the bank received the award for Best Mortgage Lending Company and Best Place to Work. Additionally, Bank President and CEO Kyle DeCicco…

Baker Senior Center Naples, a nonprofit organization that provides comprehensive programs and social services to support local seniors, announced that its new permanent home in North Naples has been honored with a Silver Aurora Award as one of the Top Commercial Projects across the southeastern United States. The 30,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility located at 6200 Autumn…

NAPLES, FL. – Baker Senior Center Naples, a nonprofit organization that provides comprehensive programs and social services to support local seniors, is proud to announce that its new permanent home in North Naples has been honored with a Silver Aurora Award as one of the Top Commercial Projects across the Southeast United States. The 30,000-square-foot,…

Avow has received a $5,000 grant from Suncoast Credit Union Foundation to fund music therapy programming for Avow Kids. The Avow Kids program provides support for children ages 5-17 who are struggling with grief or loss in any capacity, and there is never a cost for participation in the program. “The Avow Kids team is…

STARability Foundation presented a STAR Award to its dedicated vocational partner, Outback Steakhouse. The award was presented to Manager Steven Dunahoo on behalf of STARability’s Trailblazer Academy program. The award recognizes local businesses that employ STARability participants, including those enrolled in the Trailblazer Academy, a community-based program focused on providing vocational training, life skill development…

NAPLES, Fla. – An alliance of the country’s most successful real estate agents in the luxury home sector has awarded Aprile Osborne, co-founder and chief vision officer of Call It Closed International Realty, its top honor. The Institute for Luxury Home Marketing’s GUILD Elite status is reserved for agents with the “knowledge, experience, competence and…

NAPLES, Fla.  – An alliance of the country’s most successful real estate agents in the luxury home sector has awarded Aprile Osborne, co-founder and chief vision officer of Call It Closed International Realty, its top honor. The Institute for Luxury Home Marketing’s GUILD Elite status is reserved for agents with the “knowledge, experience, competence and…

FORT MYERS, FL – Markham Norton Mosteller Wright & Company, P.A. (MNMW) is named by Accounting Today as one of the top 100 workplaces in the Nation as part of their 2023 Best Accounting Firms to Work For awards program for the fourth year in a row. Accounting Today partners with the Best Companies Group…

Naples, FL – Gulfshore Playhouse and The Collier Citizens Council are pleased to announce that Kristen Coury, a stalwart of the arts in Collier County, is this year’s winner of the Murray Hendel Civic Achievement Award, given annually for extraordinary contributions to the community. “I’m humbled and overjoyed to be acknowledged as this year’s recipient…