Dear Friends,

Punta Gorda is such a special community. Despite national and world events, we are forging ahead. Call it what you may, but I call it vision, determination, courage, commitment, and pride.
One quick look around and you’ll see why.

• The Charlotte Harbor Event and Conference Center is open and greeting residents and visitors.
• New hotels are offering visitors new experiences.
• New office buildings are coming out of the ground around the city.
• New affordable housing projects offer excellent homes to the disadvantaged.
• New landscaping graces us throughout all parts of the city.

It has taken the efforts of many to achieve these results including TEAM Punta Gorda. Since 2004, when TEAM was founded, we’ve been diligently working on behalf of the citizens of our community to bring about the change envisioned in the Citizens’ Master Plan 2005.

Yet, we’ve only just begun. TEAM’s active committees are collaborating with many partners to achieve:

• An active waterfront with a promenade that stretches from Fisherman’s Village to Charlotte Regional Medical Center; attracts visitors and residents; features educational, historical, and artistic components; and links with the linear parks to form a “ring around the city.”
• A Spokes and Trails program with bicycle, walking, and running paths around the city that links with Arcadia, Venice and Ft. Myers.
• A virtual artisan’s district that brings together our existing arts community and an artisan’s village where emerging artists can produce their expressions and visitors can watch and purchase new found treasures.
• A community where additional higher education compliments existing educational opportunities.
• A higher educational institution that brings students from around the globe that compliments industries that find Punta Gorda the place to be.
• An augmented communications plan that tells what we’re doing and what we’ve accomplished.

This is just the beginning. TEAM Punta Gorda is staffed by unpaid volunteers who bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to these and many other projects and activities that support the principles of the Citizens’ Master Plan. Waterfront, communications, environment, grant resources, architecture, construction, marketing, academia, and more…you name it! TEAM’s volunteers have the talent to support it. TEAM also provides an office from which our non-profit operates and offers valuable meeting space for our committees to convene.

Your financial support is also important. Please don’t feel restricted in what you think TEAM’s work is worth to you in preserving our jewel by the water. Remember, your contribution is tax deductible.

Very truly yours,

Nancy B. Prafke, CEO
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