Spirit Of Giving: LEE WETHERINGTON HOMES December 2021

LEE WETHERINGTON HOMES

7590 FRUITVILLE RD., SARASOTA, FL 34240 | 941-922-3480 | LWHOMES.COM

CREATING A COMMUNITY BUILT TO LAST, LIKE A LEE WETHERINGTON HOME. For more than four decades, Lee Wetherington Homes has taken pride in its forward-thinking, quality residential construction that places Suncoast customers’ wants and needs at the forefront. That same level of consideration is displayed through the longtime homebuilder’s reputation of charitable work and commitment to creating a community built to last like its homes. Giving back is a vital piece of the mission Lee Wetherington, the firm’s founder who remains personally involved in customer projects, has strived to fulfill through high-caliber construction. That includes his involvement, since 1991, in the Boys & Girls Clubs of Sarasota County – even chairing the building committee tasked with funding and constructing three clubs in Sarasota, Venice and North Port. He’s contributed more than $600,000, through the success of Lee Wetherington Homes, to children via the Kids in College Scholarship Fund and the Boys & Girls Clubs Capital Endowment. This passion for charitable giving – among longtime support for programs like United Way of Sarasota County, Harvest House and more – spurred the creation of the Lee Wetherington Foundation, which awards grants focused toward disadvantaged youth that went unassisted by governmental or charitable organizations. The organization seeks to help children build lasting friendships, improve academics and critical skills ranging from leadership to service, entrepreneurial training and college and career prep.

To share the blessings we have received with those in our community who are less fortunate, and help where we can when others cannot.

• Since its inception, the Lee Wetherington Foundation has donated over $2 million in grants to deserving non-profit organizations throughout Sarasota and Manatee counties.

• Lee Wetherington, the local homebuilder’s longtime founder who remains involved in customer projects, has supported the Boys & Girls Clubs across the Suncoast since 1991.

• Through the success of Lee Wetherington Homes, its founder and firm have built or refurbished Boys & Girls Clubs at various locations in Sarasota and Manatee counties.

• Since establishing the Lee Wetherington Foundation in 2002 with an initial gift of $1 million, the fund has expanded its focus on impacting less-fortunate, disadvantaged youth.

• Lee Wetherington Homes has championed Harvest House since 2016, when it helped buy nine duplexes now utilized as transitional residences for 18 formerly homeless families.

• United Way of Sarasota County has been supported by Lee Wetherington Homes since 1992.