Meritage Homes Honored With 2023 Hearthstone BUILDER Humanitarian Award

The homebuilder was also recognized by additional awards for its commitment to sustainability, high homebuyer satisfaction ratings, and overall leadership in the industry.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., May 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Meritage Homes, the fifth-largest homebuilder in the U.S., was honored with the 2023 Hearthstone BUILDER Humanitarian Award for its philanthropic and volunteer efforts last night. Presented by the editors at BUILDER magazine in partnership with Hearthstone, the leading private investment partner in for-sale housing in the U.S., this annual award recognizes homebuilders who demonstrate a lifetime commitment to public service.

“Hearthstone is proud to recognize Meritage Homes as our winner of the 2023 Hearthstone BUILDER Humanitarian Award,” says Mark Porath, CEO of Hearthstone. “The Meritage Cares program is more than a catchphrase. Starting with the executives and cascading to all Meritage employees, they have made the commitment to care for others a part of their company culture, by dedicating time, attention, and resources to helping support those who serve us in the military and children and families who are in need. Being able to highlight Meritage’s good deeds is exactly the reason the Hearthstone BUILDER Humanitarian Award was founded.”

“At Meritage, we are all very honored to receive this year’s prestigious Hearthstone BUILDER Humanitarian Award,” shares Phillippe Lord, CEO of Meritage Homes. “Our employees embody our core value of Start With Heart each and every day. We are particularly proud of what our teams accomplished in our national giving campaigns from building and donating mortgage-free homes in our communities to veterans to packing meals to fight hunger and hygiene kits for refugees. Through in-kind and cash donations, Meritage has donated over $6.5 million.”

The Hearthstone BUILDER Humanitarian Award has contributed $7.5 million to various charities since 1999, making it the single largest charitable award program in the homebuilding industry. In connection with this year’s award, Meritage selected the nonprofits, No Child Hungry and National Association of Women in Construction, to receive the cash award, which supplemented with donations from Meritage and its vendor partners, totaled $400,000.  

Additional Award Wins for Meritage Homes

Meritage was honored to become a ten-time recipient of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence Award. Given our longstanding commitment starting in 2009 to build 100% energy-efficient homes, we have completed over 112,000 Meritage ENERGY STAR certified homes and are proud to be an innovator in the sustainability space.