TNP Honored as 2025 Inaugural Provol Award Winner!
October 20, 2025
TNP is Announced as the Provol Award WinnersThe Naples Players has been chosen as the inaugural recipient of the Collier Community Foundation’s Provol Award, recognizing excellence in nonprofit leadership, ingenuity, and broad, measurable community impact.
This prestigious honor — the pinnacle of CCF’s annual awards — celebrates the extraordinary dedication of our volunteers and staff and the transformative programs they bring to life. Helping to support our Creative Communication for Care Partners and ArtRX programs, these initiatives are changing how our community uses theatre to connect, heal, and grow. (click here to learn more about our partnerships…)
It is an incredible recognition that affirms the heart of who we are and the values we stand for. Added to the Aurora Award, which recognizes the impact of our newly renovated facility, it’s easy to see how TNP is not only shaping our community but also redefining how theatres do business by balancing artistic excellence with community impact and financial sustainability.
Like many nonprofits, we rely on a blend of ticket sales, tuition, and philanthropy to sustain our work. As a nonprofit business, the community (and the IRS!) expect that our mission, not a profit, will drive every decision we make. That means the revenue we earn from ticket sales is reinvested directly into our programs; keeping ticket prices affordable, providing scholarships, and funding initiatives that serve our community. As a result, ticket sales cover only about half of our annual budget.
As a result, we rely on people who choose to “buy” impact for their community — donors who invest year after year in the belief that TNP can build a stronger, more compassionate Naples, and that TNP can help change the national perception of how theaters can impact communities. And like every business, we rely on both new and returning customers.
The Provol Award is a tremendous acknowledgment of the impact our community has “purchased.” What will sustain this success are the donors, season ticket holders, and volunteers who make the choice every season to support our work. Your generosity ensures that every student can learn, every audience can belong, and every partnership can grow.
As we enter the holiday season, I invite you to consider making a year-end contribution to help continue the work that this award celebrates. Every gift — large or small — has a direct, lasting impact on our ability to build community through exceptional access to the power of theatre.
