Wine festivals work fundraising and brandraising magic for these two organizations

By Joe Boland

By 2009, the Chesapeake Rotary Club had just about had its fill of its annual spaghetti dinner.

"Each year for the past 20 years, we had done a spaghetti dinner at a local high school," says Roland Davis, secretary of the Chesapeake Rotary Club. "The spaghetti dinner wasn't making any money except for the $90 worth of tickets each notary member had to buy. So it wasn't a popular fundraiser, and we were looking for another idea."