With the cost of a transplant often exceeding $500,000, many transplant patients are unable to shoulder the financial burden of such a procedure. The Children's Organ Transplant Association (COTA) is a national charity dedicated to organizing and guiding communities in raising funds for transplant-needy patients. In Naples, volunteers are raising funds for transplant patients like local child Donte Walkins. 

Born on January 10, 1999, Donte was diagnosed with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, and doctors at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida, performed a life-saving heart transplant on March 12, 2009. An estimated $60,000 is being raised by Naples volunteers.