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Naples Botanical Garden has received an anonymous gift of $21,345 that will help pay for the garden’s expansion through its capital campaign.
“This gift is a very timely and welcome surprise,” said Brian Holley, executive director of the Garden, in a statement. “It isn’t uncommon for donors to remain anonymous publicly but it is rare that the institution doesn’t know who the donor is. To whomever made this gift, thank you from all of us at the Garden.”
Holley said the Garden is in the midst of its capital campaign and getting ready to break ground on an expansion project.
A team of nationally and internationally known people in landscape architecture, horticulture and green building design have created a mosaic of themed gardens scheduled to open in late 2010.
The gardens off Bayshore Drive in East Naples will feature the plants and cultures of the Caribbean, Brazil, Asia and Southwest Florida.
The Garden will close to the public June 1 to begin preparing the site for construction. After the closing, prearranged tours will be offered to members and the public.
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For an insitution to not know who the donor is makes me question how the money was even gained.
Was a bag of money dropped off to the front door? Here you go, have fun, and plant something.
As a non-profit, it is important to ask about donors and the integrity that is behind the donor's action.
This seems very strange to me, and I hope that the garden gets to the roots of where the money came from in the first place.
Otherwise, it raises many questions.
#1 Posted by beetlejuice on May 12, 2008 at 8:47 p.m. (Suggest removal)
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