Awards & Recognition

STARability Foundation recently presented a STAR Award to its dedicated vocational partner, Stofft Cooney Architects. The award was presented to Partner John Cooney by employee and STARability Trailblazer Academy participant Matthew Martel. The award recognizes local businesses that employ STARability participants, including those enrolled in the Trailblazer Academy, a community-based program focused on providing vocational…

FORT MYERS, Fla. – Chicken Salad Chick, the nation’s only fast-casual chicken salad restaurant concept, recently named franchisees Kendal Potesta and Scott Pace as Developers of the Year at the company’s annual conference event held on March 20 in Atlanta. The Developer of the Year award is given to a franchise owner who has exhibited…

FORT MYERS, Fla.  – The Fort Myers Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) announces that Vice Chair, Teresa Watkins Brown, has been selected as a recipient of the 2023 Home Rule Hero Award by the Florida League of Cities. The Florida League of Cities (FLC), the united voice for Florida’s municipal governments, recently recognized the Fort Myers Community Redevelopment Agency…

Christopher Alan Homes President and CEO Ian Schmoyer was a featured panelist at the 2023 Builder 100 Leadership Summit, an annual conference attracting the nation’s top homebuilders, developers and industry leaders. Schmoyer participated in the panel discussion, “Building on Margins: Lessons from the Top Private Builders,” sharing the innovative, strategic and personal approaches to business…

Baker Senior Center Naples, a nonprofit organization that provides comprehensive programs and social services for local seniors and their families, announced that it has been awarded a 2023 Platinum Seal of Transparency from Candid. Candid is a 501(c)3 organization that provides the world’s most comprehensive data and information about nonprofit organizations and the social sector.…

FORT MYERS, Fla. –The Southwest Florida Chapter of the Florida PublicRelations Association (FPRA) presented 14awards for excellence in public relations programming and projects at the 2023 Local Image Awards celebration, held on Thursday, April 27 at Suite Forty Eight in Fort Myers. FPRA members organized an afiesta-stylethemed event, which also recognized four-chapter members and two…

FORT MYERS, Fla. – Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida (JA) recently celebrated 35 years of honoring and recognizing business leaders in Southwest Florida with a record-breaking gala at the Ritz-Carlton in Naples. On Tuesday, April 18, over 400 business leaders gathered to induct 2023 Laureates JoAnn Elardo, founder of Cape Spirits Inc., Thomas M. Moran…

STARability Foundation is honored to announce it has received a $15,000 grant from the League Club to expand its Trailblazer Academy program for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. “We appreciate the League Club for believing in our mission,” said Karen Govern, CEO of STARability Foundation. “As first-time recipients of a League Club grant, we…