Pat Neal donates award, plus $200K, to land conservation group

The chairman of Neal Communities combines 2024 Hearthstone BUILDER Humanitarian Award with additional funds for a $350,000 gift to Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast

By Business Observer Staff
| 7:50 a.m. June 6, 2024
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Pat Neal is chairman of Neal Communities.

Manatee-Sarasota

In honor of his decades of contributions to the preservation of environmentally sensitive lands in Southwest Florida, Neal Communities Chairman Pat Neal was presented with the 2024 Hearthstone BUILDER Humanitarian Award in May.

He then combined the $150,000 honorarium that accompanies the award with an additional $200,000 raised by the company to donate a total of $350,000 to the Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast.

The award is given in partnership with residential development investor Hearthstone and the national publication BUILDER magazine. The money will be used by the foundation to acquire land in Sarasota and Manatee counties, and to fund development of its Strategic Conservation Plan.