Agenda 09/10/2024 Item # 5B (Presentation of the Collier County Business of the Quarter for September 2024 to Lighthouse of Collier County. Award will be accepted by representatives of the rehabilitation center)5.B
09/10/2024
COLLIER COUNTY
Board of County Commissioners
Item Number: 5.13
Doc ID: 29748
Item Summary: Presentation of the Collier County Business of the Quarter for September 2024 to Lighthouse of
Collier County. The award will be accepted by representatives of the rehabilitation center. Also attending are
Kristina Park, CEO & President, and Bethany Sawyer, Vice President of Membership and Investors, both of the
Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce.
Meeting Date: 09/10/2024
Prepared by:
Title: Customer Service Specialist — County Manager's Office
Name: Aimee Trochessett
08/19/2024 2:53 PM
Submitted by:
Title: Management Analyst II — County Manager's Office
Name: Geoffrey Willig
08/19/2024 2:53 PM
Approved By:
Review:
County Manager's Office Ed Finn County Manager Review
Board of County Commissioners Geoffrey Willig Meeting Pending
Completed 09/02/2024 6:15 PM
09/10/2024 9:00 AM
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5.B.a
Form Name
Business of the Month
IP Address
96.79.229,237
Browser/Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/121.0.0.0
Organization
Lighthouse of Collier
Business Description
Lighthouse of Collier is the only rehabilitation center for blindness and
vision loss in Collier County, providing and offering services at no
charge to many of the children and adults in Collier County who are
blind/visually impaired. It is our main focus to empower our clients
who are blind and visually impaired to be independent through
experiences, education and socialization, leading to an enhanced
quality of life forthem and their families.
Please provide examples of how
Lighthouse of Collier promotes understanding and awareness of
your organization has
vision -related issues through community education. Lighthouse of
contributed/supported our local
Collier provides scholarship grants to individuals, including high
community
school; college and graduate school students, to enable the recipients
to complete an undergraduate or graduate education in the field of
their choice at the college or graduate school of their choice.
Lighthouse of Collier offers a Vocational Rehabilitation program for
clients who either hold jobs, or were employed and are in need of
additional training in order to continue with successful employment
or regain employment using accommodations in the work place.
Full -Time Employees
8
Part -Time Employees
4
Year Founded
2009
Owner/Executive to receive the
Scott, Flagel
award?
Person nominating the
Scott Flagel
business?
Email
scott@Iighthouseofcollier.org
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