Neal Communities Helps Take Inventory in Kids with Over $10,000 in Donations

LAKEWOOD RANCH (Could 12, 2023) – Neal Communities Finance Director Pamela Curran began volunteering as a mentor with Take Inventory in Kids of Manatee County two years in the past and had no thought how highly effective the expertise can be for her.

Curran’s pal, who works at Take Inventory in Kids, first satisfied Curran to volunteer. She was launched to a pupil that was in her junior yr at Southeast Excessive College. With a toddler the identical age, Curran simply developed a bond with the lady. It wasn’t lengthy after that her pal requested Curran if she was in a position to mentee a second pupil, one other junior at Southeast Excessive College. Each women are actually seniors graduating this month.

“They each have develop into an extension of my household,” Curran stated. And whereas she didn’t imply for it to occur, each mentees even have develop into buddies with one another and with Curran’s 17-year-old daughter.

Neal Communities is an avid supporter of the Take Inventory in Kids program in each Manatee and Sarasota Counties. As the biggest privately owned dwelling builder in Southwest Florida, Neal Communities has eight staff who, like Curran, volunteer as mentors via this system.

“The Take Inventory in Kids program gives our staff a option to straight enrich in a toddler’s life and put together kids for the long run,” stated Pat Neal, founder and president of Neal Communities. “We’re blissful to help a program that focuses on serving to our youth succeed.”

The house builder lately was a $2,500 sponsor of the Take Inventory in Kids Sarasota County’s annual Celebration of Hope occasion, which is this system’s commencement ceremony for college kids finishing this system and receiving the faculty scholarship with their faculty plans introduced. 

Neal Communities additionally donated $10,600 to Take Inventory in Kids of Manatee County to supply a single tuition-based faculty/technical faculty scholarship to a pupil within the Manatee County program.

“Firms like Neal Communities that encourage staff to mentor lead by instance. They worth the funding of time to vary a toddler’s life and the group. Their staff share their skilled work expertise with college students and broaden the chances out there to younger individuals,” stated Diana Dill, improvement director and group partnership portfolio supervisor for Take Inventory in Kids of Sarasota County.

The Take Inventory in Kids’s mission is to interrupt the cycle of poverty for low-income, academically certified college students by offering alternatives for a postsecondary schooling. The scholars, from center to highschool age, are matched with a volunteer mentor, offered faculty readiness companies and a devoted faculty success coach. Every pupil is awarded a school scholarship and supplied with postsecondary help via diploma or certification attainment.

Whereas this system requires Curran to spend a minimal of half-hour per week along with her college students, Curran stated she usually spends far more time. She stated they speak about extra than simply college and future schooling plans. “It’s simply actually to assist them comply with their path,” she stated, utilizing expressions like “a cheerleader”, “a motivator”, and “a shoulder to lean on” when describing the function that she performs as a mentor. “They educate me new issues every day,” she stated. “They inspire me to be the most effective mentor that I may be.”

Curran’s volunteer efforts have been acknowledged. She was named Take Inventory Manatee Mentor of the 12 months this previous January.

Curran stated the opposite staff at Neal Communities who mentor help one another’s efforts. She informed a narrative about how a co-worker was planning to share a guide about enterprise management together with his mentee. Curran stated she ended up sharing the identical guide along with her college students. “We help one another on this function and provides one another steering,” she stated. “It’s nice camaraderie amongst these of us at Neal Communities who mentor.”

Neal Communities has been a group companion and supporter of Take Inventory in Kids of Manatee County since 2017. In whole, Neal Communities has donated $29,200 to the group. With a core perception that “The place You Stay Issues,” Neal Communities has given greater than $7.5 million to native charities all through Southwest Florida and is dedicated to the communities the place they dwell, work and construct.

“Take Inventory in Kids is extremely grateful for group leaders like Neal Communities for dedicating assets to make sure native college students attain their biggest potential,” Dill stated.

For extra details about Take Inventory in Kids of Sarasota County, go to TakeStockSarasota.org. For extra details about Take Inventory in Kids in Manatee County, go to TakeStockManatee.org. For extra details about Neal Communities go to www.NealCommunities.com.

About Neal Communities
Neal Communities, primarily based in Lakewood Ranch, Florida, is Southwest Florida’s largest and most established regionally owned and operated personal builder. Through the firm’s 50-year historical past, it has constructed greater than 20,000 new properties in additional than 90 acclaimed communities from Tampa to Naples. The corporate persistently ranks among the many nation’s prime 100 dwelling builders and has earned quite a few awards together with the celebrated Builder of the 12 months from Skilled Builder in 2015 and America’s Finest Builder in 2012 from BUILDER Journal. With a core perception that “The place You Stay Issues,” Neal Communities has given greater than $7.75 million to native charities all through Southwest Florida and is dedicated to the communities the place they dwell, work and construct. Firm gross sales in fiscal yr 2022 have been simply over $600 million.

Extra Neal Communities manufacturers embrace Neal Signature Properties, Charlene Neal PureStyle, Waterscapes Swimming pools & Spas, Neal Communities Funding and Allegiant Title Professionals. For extra info, go to NealCommunities.com.

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