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One Liners Sarasota and Manatee: Boys & Girls Clubs, Helios Technologies and more

| Jo-Lynn Brown

► Boys & Girls Clubs of Sarasota and DeSoto Counties promoted Suriya Khong to vice president of teen initiatives.

► Helios Technologies, a Sarasota-based engineered motion control and electronic controls technology company, transferred its common stock to the New York Stock Exchange.

Doug Sullivan

► The Rotary Club of Sarasota announced a 5-year grant award of $50,000 to Boys & Girls Clubs of Sarasota and DeSoto Counties to support youth scholarships for the organization’s Great Futures Academy.

► Doug Sullivan of Ian Black Real Estate achieved the certified business intermediary designation, which will allow the commercial real estate brokerage firm to offer business broker services in-house when clients seek to sell both their real estate and business.

► The Community Foundation of Sarasota County awarded the Hermitage Artist Retreat a $50,000 Strategic Partnership Grant to support the Hermitage’s artist residency program and, for the fifth consecutive season, to serve as grand sponsor of the Hermitage Greenfield Prize Dinner and Celebration in April.

► As a continuation of a major $85 million expansion project, The Glenridge on Palmer Ranch started expansion projects at two separate locations on the main campus for the addition of new health/wellness and lifestyle amenities.

► The Van Wezel Foundation has announced that, after a national search led by WittKieffer, Mark Cole has joined the Foundation’s executive leadership team in the newly created position of chief advancement and marketing officer.

► Kerkering, Barberio & Co., certified public accountants, established a five-year gift to the University of South Florida Muma College of Business that will encompass multiple components in the Lynn Pippenger School of Accountancy, including scholarships.

► Target chairman and CEO Brian Cornell and his wife, Martha, announced a $10 million donation to support Sarasota Memorial Health Care System’s new behavioral health facility.

 

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