Wining and Dining Donors

Davis' nephew Scott Danner, who is also in the Chesapeake Rotary Club, told his uncle that "he loves going to wine festivals, they seem to be very popular, big crowds … why don't we look at doing that?"

That prompted Davis to start looking online at wine festivals, and he saw there were other rotary clubs doing them and raising $50,000 to $80,000 or more, "which was tremendously more than the spaghetti dinner," Davis says.