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These events are open to MCA members and their significant others.
Meals of Hope Food Bagging
We need you to give 2 hours of your time to pack bags of food so Meals of Hope can restock their 13 food pantries in Southwest Florida. These bags provide much needed nutritious food to help those struggling with food insecurity. Let’s show Southwest Florida that MCA is doing its part to end this crisis.
This is a coed event
For additional information contact Bruce Sherman
The Mission of Meals of Hope is to: Inspire and empower communities to come together to end hunger.
Ain't No Back To A
Merry-Go-Round
Documenting a significant
moment in the history of
Black-Jewish cooperation
View Trailer Here
Note: This movie only -
starts at 2:00pm.
Doors Open at 1:30
Glen Echo Amusement Park, in a wooded Maryland suburb eight miles from Washington D.C., had been strictly segregated for 50 years. Then, in the summer of 1960, a group of brave Howard University students were arrested when they tried to ride the merry-go-round.
A largely Jewish neighborhood with a concentration of Holocaust survivor and trade unionist residents abutted Glen Echo. It quickly mobilized to support the students -- joining informational pickets and providing food and shelter for the students and their supporters. Meanwhile, the American Nazi party, and other Anti-Semitic and racist groups had shown up to support Glen Echo's segregationist policies.
Black students marched with white suburbanites for ten weeks. Picketing together led to new levels of understanding as union activists collaborated with student leaders, and future giants of the Civil Rights Movement were born. In fact, ten of the initial Freedom Riders (1961) were part of the Glen Echo campaign.
Emmy-award winning director Ilana Trachtman and four still living black & white protesters recall Glen Echo's forgotten history.
Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round is a timely cinematic examination of this little-known Civil Rights story, and the shared struggles of Blacks and Jews against bigotry and hate.
The film runs 89 minutes
Questions? Email docfilmsnaples@gmail.com .
Everything You Wanted to Know about AI
By F. Zafar
Registration opens 9/20/24
This interactive presentation will explore AI’s remarkable evolution to the sophisticated systems that permeate our businesses and personal lives today. We will provide a clear understanding of how AI works, highlight its transformative impact across various industries, and discuss how it can meaningfully enrich our life experiences using a live demo.
F. Zafar is Principal and Head of Corporate Innovation R&D at Bessemer Trust. He has over 20 years of experience evaluating strategic technologies, leading innovation, formulating technology strategy, leading product development, and transforming business processes. He is a frequent guest speaker on emerging technology trends. Before joining Bessemer, Zafar was a senior vice president and head of technology for wealth management at AllianceBernstein. Before that, he was a management consultant at Booz Allen & Hamilton.
Zafar earned an MBA and an MS in electrical engineering from Yale University, and a BE, summa cum laude, in electrical engineering from City College of New York. He has completed executive programs in artificial intelligence, innovation management, and technology strategy at Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan School of Management, and Wharton Business School.
Registration opens 11/15/24
A Brief History of SWFL's Indigenous People from a Western Perspective
Museum of the Everglades manager Thomas Lockyear will share the harrowing saga of our region’s native tribes and the hardships they endured as Florida’s population shifted, grew, and changed. He will discuss the impact of incoming European civilizations on the Calusa, Seminole, and Miccosukee Indians and address the evolution of the latter two tribes throughout the 20th century. Mr. Lockyear will also share his experiences collaborating with elected officials from the Miccosukee Tribe to create a recent museum exhibit telling the Tribe’s history as they wish to have it told.
Take a Pass on Plastics
Why we should reduce our single-use plastic waste
A special presentation from the Plastics Task Force of the Leagues of Women's Voters of Collier County
Plastic is everywhere – permeating our environment, our food chains and our bodies. How did this happen, what are the implications and what can we do? The League of Women Voters’ extensively researched presentation will help answer these questions.
About our speakers Loralee LeBoeuf and Vicki Stoller:
Israel and War
MCA Member Steve Schreier
Israel, the Middle East and the entire world have been in a state of turmoil and confusion since Oct 7, 2023. For the past several years Steve has presented insights, analyses and predictions about the future for Israel.
He will review his predictions and events since his last presentation in January 2024.
In addition, he will present his thoughts into the current state of affairs between Israel and the world and predictions about what we might look for in the next period of time
Steve's personal ties to Israel are deep-rooted. He lived on a kibbutz for a year of work-study in 1962, and moved to Israel in 1970 to conduct research on his doctorate.
Registration opens 12/12/24
The Global Geopolitical Landscape and Impact of the 2024 Election
Anthony Scaramucci
Financier and former Trump White House official Anthony Scaramucci will discuss the current global geopolitical landscape and how it could be affected by the outcome of the 2024 Presidential election.
Anthony Scaramucci is an American financier who briefly served as the White House Director of Communications from July 21 to July 31, 2017.
Scaramucci worked at Goldman Sachs's investment banking, equities, and private wealth management divisions between 1989 and 1996. After leaving Goldman Sachs, he founded Oscar Capital Management, and in 2005, he founded the investment firm SkyBridge Capital.
On July 21, 2017, Scaramucci was appointed White House Director of Communication. Days into the job, Scaramucci provoked controversy after launching a strongly worded attack on members of the Trump administration in an interview with The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza that he believed was off the record. Ten days after his appointment, he was dismissed by President Donald Trump, at the recommendation of the new White House Chief of Staff, John F. Kelly. He has since been critical of Trump in the media and voiced his support for Joe Biden in 2020 and 2024 elections.
NASA - Trip to Kennedy Space Center
Includes luxury bus transportation to and from destination; one night accommodation at Hampton Inn Titusville, FL, including breakfast; “box lunch Monday"; dinner Monday at Dixie Crossroads restaurant; admission to Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum Monday afternoon; full guided tour of Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday.
Reservations accepted beginning November 1.
$399 per person (Double Occupancy): $499 Single
Cancellation policy: Full refund if a replacement is available from the MCA wait list up to the week before the tour date. Otherwise full refund if the cancellation is received 45 days prior to the tour (January 25th), 50% refund for cancellations three weeks (February 17) prior to the tour date.
Registration opens 1/12/25
Mini-Golf and Dinner
Volcano Mountain Adventure Golf*
You and a guest can register to join MCA friends for a late afternoon of mini-golf.
After a 4:30 shotgun start for 40 players, we will all go to a local restaurant for dinner and to brag about our rounds.
* Located behind the Racetrack gas station on Immokalee, east of Collier.
Questions? Contact Jeff Morgenstern.
Bring your friends and family to Lowdermilk Beach to join your fellow MCA'ers for an afternoon (and evening) of food and fun. Bring your own favorite food, beverages, and games.
Rain date will be the next day
For more info, email Jeff Morgenstern
Registration opens 2/7/25
Keewaydin
Island Adventure
We travel by boat to Keewaydin Island – a beautiful barrier island between Naples and Marco Island – accessible only by boat. There you will be able to take that long romantic walk on the beach that you’ve dreamed about; lounge in the sun; play beach games; or even bring your fishing gear. Or, you can simply relax under a beach umbrella with a refreshing beverage and watch the waves. Our route takes us past the inlets of Port Royal, which could be a side trip if desired.
We get to Keewaydin Island by rental boats and private boats. In prior years, several dozen MCA members and spouses participated, so this is a real beachapalooza! It’s a terrific outing! Boating experience is not required... nor is beach experience.
For those who do not have access to a private boat, we rent 12 person pontoon boats at the Naples Marina at Bayfront (Goodlette and 41). The cost of the rental boats is $50/person. Boat rental fees are refundable only up to March 29th, or on April 7th due to inclement weather. If you have no boating experience, we have enough MCA members with boat captain experience, so you can just relax as a passenger and enjoy the trip.
Please note: We will be monitoring Red Tide and we may need to cancel if levels are high in the area on the day of the trip.
For more information, contact Bob Blank
