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Naples Children Foundation

Announces 2026 Naples Winter Wine Festival
Special Fund a Need Focus on Children’s Healthcare -

“The Picture of Health”

The Naples Children Foundation (NCF), the founding organization of the Naples Winter Wine Festival (NWWF), today
announced that its annual Fund a Need for the 2026 Naples Winter Wine Festival will focus on children’s healthcare,
addressing critical gaps in access to mental health, oral health, vision and primary healthcare services.

by Maria Jimenez-Lara, President and CEO,
The Naples Children Foundation

very dollar raised for this special up in emergency rooms for conditions that could have been
call to action live auction lot prevented.
Enamed “The Picture of Health” Established in 2001, the Naples Winter Wine Festival
will support NCF’s comprehensive offers three days of the very best in wine and food and ranks as
approach toward opening the door to one of the most successful international charity wine auctions
essential healthcare at an early age and in the world, raising more than $336 million for children in
ensuring that local children receive the need in Collier County. At the 2026 Festival, patrons will
critical resources and services needed for have the chance to show their support through an exhilarating
them to grow and thrive. Without help, live auction on Saturday, January 31, while supporters who are
these children endure unnecessary pain, unable to attend the Festival can make a direct gift to NCF or
fall behind in school and too often end
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