A Heart for
PEOPLE Beverly Fanning supports scores of causes to give a much-needed dose of care to PEOPLE IN NEED By Marianne McNee Photography By Pure Fotografica Makeup By Emma Loudon Schofield
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he cornerstone of Beverly Fanning’s philosophy on life can be summed up by Ralph Waldo Emerson’s famous quote: “To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” Through her Beverly B. Fanning Foundation, the Naples resident supplies love and caring as well as capital, volunteer services, and material goods, all with the goal of easing someone’s burden and improving lives.
“My foundation gives me the opportunity to extend my charitable giving and volunteering to organizations, events, or causes that I want to support—where I have a personal connection or wherever I see a need,” Fanning says. “Giving makes me happy. When I give to charities, I like that they know it’s from me, that I care about them. I do not take donations to my foundation; it is strictly funded by me. I enjoy working with charities that I’ve connected with
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