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One Liners Sarasota and Manatee: Resilient Retreat, CBIZ and more

| Jo-Lynn Brown


► Resilient Retreat, in Sarasota, received a $4,500 grant from the Church of the Redeemer/Episcopal Thrift House. (Pictured above)

► The finance lab at the University of South Florida’s Sarasota-Manatee campus is getting an upgrade this summer as the school prepares to open a second lab in Tampa.

► Hodges Soileau came to Palm Avenue Fine Art, in Sarasota, for a two-day exhibition that featured selections of the original oil paintings behind his Baby-Sitters Club covers. 

► Making An Impact received a $28,250 donation from the Greater Sarasota chapter of 100 Women Who Care, during its spring 2024 meeting.

► Blue Sky Communities and Community Assisted & Supported Living of Sarasota is building a 96-unit affordable apartment project, north of downtown Sarasota. 

► Pat Neal, the chairman of Neal Communities, donated the 2024 Hearthstone BUILDER Humanitarian Award, plus $200,000, to the Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast.

► CBIZ Insurance, in Sarasota, won the Liberty Mutual and Safeco Insurance’s 2024 Make More Happen contest, and donated $10,000 to the Payton Wright Foundation, which pays for utilities and rent to support families caring for children with cancer.

► Philanthropist Larry Greenspon’s second leadership gift to the Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee brings his total investment to $7.7 million dollars, making the largest gift in the federation’s history.

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