CHR’s Manatee Madness

Pfeifer Realty Group is proud to be a sponsor and Foster Home for one of CHR's manatees from December 1st 2020 until March 31st 2021. Please be sure to stop by the office and take your picture with our manatee and post it on facebook and instagram. Use @SanibelCRR #ManateeMadness and #SoldonSanibel to be featured on CHR Social Media and Pfeifer Realty Group's Instagram account.

CHR proudly presents an opportunity to raise much-needed funds for 2021 while staying safe during a low-risk event, creating a unique and fun environment for Sanibel and Captiva Islands, and celebrating the talents of many local artists!

Artists will design and enhance a Manatee sculpture that is handmade from High Quality fiberglass with a Gel Coat and beach sand finish that can be used in a myriad of ways to enhance gardens, lanais, patios, or to serve as a mailbox! The mailbox can be replaced with pottery, artwork, or other items as will be revealed by CHR’s creative artists.

The manatee sculptures are five feet tall, and completely weather proofed. The original design was sculpted by a Disney trained artist and the manatees are 100% hand made in the USA. Each Artist’s Manatee will be displayed at various businesses and locations around the islands according to sponsorships.

A fun, self-directed hunt to find the Manatees will be available using the Manatee Map published inside our “CHR’s MANATEE MADNESS Magazine,” which will be on display and available throughout the islands. Participants will have the chance to submit photos posing with the Manatees to CHR for publication in all our social media and press throughout the campaign. The Manatee Hunt will provide a way for islanders and visitors to support CHR as well as Sanibel’s local businesses and artists in a completely socially-distanced manner as individuals will set their own time and path to check out the Manatees around the islands.

In addition to CHR’s main Manatees, “Manee,” the baby Manatee, which is 3 ft tall, will move throughout the island to various sponsored locations marked on the map every Monday during the “Manatee Monday Madness” season. Everyone visiting or living on the islands will want to Find Manee weekly and help support our local businesses in the process. Each sponsor will be advised of ways to ensure healthy behaviors and a safe environment to reduce the spread of COVID-19, and CHR will have a point person working with each weekly sponsor to give them social distancing protocols to be followed.

Manatee Monday alerts E-Blasts sent by CHR to all supporters will showcase one Artist designed Manatee each week. All Manatees and the $5,000 sponsors will be listed in the weekly E-blast. Additionally, the E-blast will allow respondents the opportunity to “vote” for a different category for their favorite Manatee on the CHR website. Each week will feature a different category. (ie “Most Original” “Most Colorful” or “Most Likely to Be Featured in a Movie,” etc)

FINAL AUCTION: The Grand Finale will be an Auction for each Manatee. Our preference, if CDC guidelines will permit, would be a Live Auction where the Manatees and Artists will be positioned separately around the perimeter of a large area, and attendees will be able to walk through, view the Manatees and meet Artists in a series of well-spaced, socially distant and well-timed small groups consisting of masked individuals who live together in compliance with CDC guidelines. In the event that a live auction is not possible, an “On -line” Auction component will be utilized to enable the participation without contact.

Artists include:

• Cath Branwood and Live Art Naples
• Danielle Branchaud
• Ginny Dickinson
• Anita Force Marshall & Bob Marshall
• Kristina Jackson
• Cheryl Logan
• Rena Martinson
• Kym Mason
• Taryn Manning
• Lacy McClary
• Marianne Ravenna
• Joan Tangren Reynolds
• Patty & Jim Sprankle
• Brian Weaver
• Peter Zell

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