Priority Marketing’s March 2023 Client Headlines Report recaps 10 news stories that you should read, watch or hear.
The firm’s award-winning PR Team helps clients and partners earn media coverage in newspapers and magazines, on television and radio, and on blogs, social media and websites. At the end of each month, the PR Team combs through hundreds of local, national and international news headlines to create its informative Client Headlines Report.
Below are just 10 of the many important stories that were published or aired in March 2023.
The future ain’t what it used to be
Held March 14 at Caloosa Sound Convention Center in Fort Myers, the sold-out Market Trends of Southwest Florida event offered valuable insights and predictions about the region’s real estate market, an especially important conversation as Southwest Florida recovers from Hurricane Ian.
The News-Press: Real Estate experts say market will enter transition year, Ian to give SWFL a clean slate
Florida Weekly: Even after Ian, outlook bright for real estate, experts say
Gulfshore Business: Market Trends real estate event shows Southwest Florida market slowdown
FOX4: What’s the future of the housing market after Ian? Industry leaders have ideas
Florida Weekly: PHOTOS: Market Trends at the Caloosa Sound Convention Center, Fort Myers
Lester Holt recognizes two SWFL nonprofits
NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, Kids’ Edition featured a four-minute story about a Southwest Florida teen who created a nonprofit, BelieveNBooks, that is providing books to disadvantaged children in the region, including Guadalupe Center. The network used video footage and photos provided by Priority Marketing to package the story.
NBC: Inspiring Kids: Natasha Agarwal, BelieveNBooks
Here are two stories that aired locally explaining the program.
ABC7: Fort Myers teen creates program to help children learn how to read
ABC7: Canterbury students donated 3,500 books to Guadalupe Center
Million-dollar fundraisers
Fundraising events are critically important sources of revenue that help nonprofit organizations fulfill their missions. There is a milestone figure always worth celebrating – $1 million. A pair of nonprofits recently announced that their events had surpassed that threshold.
Bobby Nichols – Fiddlesticks Charity Foundation
ABC7: Nichols Cup raises money for at-risk kids in Southwest Florida
Cape Coral Breeze: Bobby Nichols – Fiddlesticks Charity Foundation’s 21st Annual Nichols Cup raises $1 million and counting for local children’s charities
Florida Weekly: PHOTOS: Bobby Nichols – Fiddlesticks Charity Foundation raises $1 million
Guadalupe Center
Gulfshore Life: PHOTOS: Elevate, hosted at The Ritz-Carlton Naples, Tiburon
eBella: Elevate raises $1.4 million to support education programs
Attorney helps preserve Fort Myers history
Attorney Joe North and his family presented a $100,000 check to the Lee County Black History Society to spur community support and energize fundraising for a planned Black Cultural Center. The $22 million, three-story center will be in Clemente Park and will host concerts, art exhibits and more.
NBC2: Local organization prepares to launch Black Cultural Center in Dunbar community
The News-Press: Lee County Black History Society receives $100,000 to help build cultural center in Dunbar
WINK: $22M donated to Lee County Black History Society for a Black Culture Center
Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day
Southwest Florida has no shortage of options to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day as restaurants offer dinner specials, bars feature drink specials and Naples hosts its street parade. Fort Myers Brewing has emerged as a hotspot to celebrate the holiday and the microbrewery was packed following advance stories in the media.
ABC7: More Explores: Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in SWFL
FOX4: Fort Myers Brewing Company celebrates St. Patrick’s Day
Florida Weekly: Fort Myers Brewing to host St. Patrick’s Day festivities
The News-Press: 100-plus events: What to do in Lee County in March, from St. Patrick’s Day fun to Taco Fest
Just two weeks earlier, Fort Myers Brewing also made headlines for winning top honors at a craft beer competition.
SWFL Business Today: Fort Myers Brewing Company wins golds at 2023 Best Florida Beer Professional Championships
Giving artists of all abilities a chance to shine
Southwest Florida Music Education Center was created so students who are neurodivergent can have a place where they can learn and thrive. Although a permanent campus is still in the works, a feature reporter recently visited the temporary location and nearly moved the news anchor to tears during the broadcast.
NBC2: Naples school offers musicians of all abilities the chance to shine
Norman Love debuts Easter Collection
In Southwest Florida, the most anticipated releases each year aren’t the newest iPhone, automobile or blockbuster movie. It’s Norman Love Confections’ annual Easter Collection, which features egg-ceptional ultra-premium egg-shaped white, dark and milk chocolate confections. This year’s flavors include Tropical Cream, Strawberry Cream, Vanilla Cream, Coconut Cream, Chocolate Cream, Mint Cream, Coffee Cream, Caramel Cream, Raspberry Cream, Peanut Butter Cream.
96K-Rock: Introducing Norman Love Confections’ Easter chocolates
Naples Daily News: Restaurants & food: Two retirements, Snook Inn news, Easter chocolates, sandwich benefit
The chocolatier also just announced a new series of cooking classes for those interested in learning how to create artisan confections and exquisite desserts.
Cape Coral Breeze: Norman Love Confections expands cooking class schedules
Naples hospice nurse dispels misconceptions
After former President Jimmy Carter went into hospice care, NPR’s Here and Now host Peter O’Dowd interviewed Avow Chief Clinical Officer Dr. Rebecca Gatian and one of Avow’s patients to address myths about hospice and palliative care and inform the public about this Medicare covered resource.
NPR: Hospice nurse dispels misconceptions about hospice care
Meanwhile, another Avow professional hit the local airwaves to discuss the power of music in healing.
ABC7: Healthy Living: The healing benefits of music therapy
Jet business explains what it means to be a good neighbor
For years, residents living near Naples Airport have voiced concerns about noise. Those conversations have elevated in recent months as more affluent travelers choose to fly privately. Elite Jets has implemented many measures to reduce noise, support local nonprofits and be good environmental stewards. Priority Marketing helped the company enter the conversation to explain what it is doing to be a good neighbor.
WINK: Naples Airport looks for noise compromise between neighbors, jets
Naples Daily News: Good aviation neighbors make this a great place to live
Caught in the Act of Kindness
Each month, eBella produces a newsletter titled “Caught in the Act of Kindness” that recognizes good deeds completed by local businesses, individuals, groups and organizations. The March chapter featured 10 of Priority Marketing’s nonprofit clients: Kids’ Minds Matter, Wonder Gardens, Lee County Black History Society, Bobby Nichols – Fiddlesticks Charity Foundation, Guadalupe Center, NAMI Collier, Charity for Change, Lee BIA Builders Care, Avow Hospice and Immokalee Fair Housing Alliance.
eBella: Caught in the Act of Kindness, March 2023
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