Community Web Award – Southwest Florida Grant Winner

Community Web Award Sponsored by Atilus, Southwest Florida Community Foundation and Board Management

We’re proud to introduce the Community Web Award Grant finalist – a joint effort by the Southwest Florida Community Foundation, Atilus, and our latest software project – Board Management. After reviewing numerous applications, the Southwest Florida Community Foundation and Atilus selected the grant finalist – the Florida Repertory Theatre.

The Community Web Award Grant, which provided one finalist with a complete web design and Internet marketing overhaul valued at $20,000. The grant will help the Florida Repertory Theatre strengthen their online reach and increase community awareness of their programs and online donations.

In addition to this, the first 50 nonprofits that submitted an application will receive a year-long license to our newly launched online software – Board Management (valued at $360 per license). The organizations that won year-long Board Management licenses’ – to name a few are listed below: Be sure to congratulate them!

• Piper Center for Social Services, Inc.
• Lee County Coalition for a Drug-Free Southwest Florida
• Foundation for the Developmentally Disabled
• Visually Impaired Persons of Charlotte County
• Community Cooperative
• Good Wheels
• Symphonic Chorale of Southwest Florida
• National Alliance on Mental Illness – Lee County
• Southwest Florida Resource Conservation & Development Council
• Southwest Florida Museum of History
• Everglades Wonder Gardens
• For The Kids Foundation

We are very grateful to all applicant nonprofit organizations; your work and efforts are not unnoticed – you’re all winners in our book.

The selection process was rather challenging, we felt the Florida Rep demonstrated the ability to make the biggest difference in a short period of time in the Southwest Florida arts and culture community.

About the Southwest Florida Repertory Theatre

The Florida Repertory Theatre is one of Lee County and Southwest Florida’s most important cultural and educational Institutions – thus being named the “Best Performing Arts Group”. The Florida Repertory Theatre is a fully professional theatre company that produces a wide variety of comedies, dramas and musicals, and brings more than 80,000 people to the Fort Myers River District annually. The Florida Rep is the only theatre company of its caliber in the Southwest Florida Community. The Florida Rep. building is a historical significance in its own – built in 1908, The Arcade Theatre displays all the charm and splendor of early Florida.

The Florida Rep Mission Statement:

“Florida Rep is committed to providing a first-class regional theatre for Southwest Florida; to creating, nurturing and developing an ensemble of theatre professionals who will develop long term relationships working on a wide variety of plays; to helping improve the quality of life in our community through all the arts; and to making the arts, especially theatre, accessible to all.”

How to Claim Your Free-Membership with Board Management

1. Sign-up for an account
2. Let us know you signed up
3. We’ll update your account to a free one for a full year

Partnering with the Southwest Florida Community Foundation

We’d also like to send a sincere Thank You to all those at the Southwest Florida Community Foundation – this partnership has been a great success! A successful partnership is about building, counter-balancing, mutual respect and trust – all of which have been rewarding. We look forward to working with you in future endeavors.