Windermere Real Estate selects HomeAid for their 2010 Community Service Day project! 

The Windermere Community Day Committee collected applications throughout August. The committee reviewed the applications and narrowed it down to two  finalists. The committee then went on site visits to each location and interviewed the Executive Directors. 

We are happy to announce that HomeAid was selected. HomeAid’s mission is to build and maintain dignified housing where homeless families and individuals can rebuild their lives. To accomplish this mission, HomeAid partners with non-profits who provide housing for the homeless, members of the building industry who provide materials and labor, and 

members of the community who provide volunteer services. HomeAid’s vision is to play a vital role in ending homelessness.

One of HomeAid’s partners is WestCare, a non-profit who provides services to at-risk teens and throwaway youth. Their Stepping Stones facility is in need of a more homelike and comfortable setting for these broken youth.

The project will include:

            Painting of the walls in 18 bedrooms;

            Painting of the hallways that lead to the bedrooms;

            Painting of the client lounge;

            As the paint dries in each room, the beds will be dressed with new bedding and sturdy new dressers for their belongings will be delivered.

HomeAid explains “This is the ideal one-day event that will greatly impact hundreds of youth over the years. Because of this project, the children who temporarily call Steeping Stones their home will have brighter colors and happier places where they spend their time.”

Windermere Real Estate to Donate $25K to HopeLink

Grant will enable nonprofit to continue fighting homelessness through 2011

Robyn Yates, V.P. of Marketing for Windermere Real Estate, announced today the company's charitable foundation has selected Henderson Allied community Advocates, dba HopeLink, to receive its entire 2009 endowment, to put toward its homelessness prevention efforts. The $25,000 donation will be made official at a check presentation ceremony to be held at the non-profit organization's headquarters in Henderson, on June 9, 2010.

The 2009 endowment of $25,000 came from Windermere agents. For every transaction a Windermere agent made in the Las Vegas valley, a fee was donated to the foundation. Windermere agents care about the community they live in.

Established in Henderson in 1991, HopeLink focuses on preventing homelessness for families in crisis. For more than 18 years, the organization has worked to stabilize families and transition them back to permanent housing, through such services as emergency shelter, food pantry, transportation assistance and more.

For the first time ever, Windermere's three Southern Nevada offices voted to combine their annual donations to the Windermere Foundation, for the purpose of awarding it to a single charity. Windermere held a call for submissions throughout the month of April, and Hopelink was among dozens of local non-profit organizations that applied to receive the grant.

"Being in real estate, we put families in homes everyday," said Yates. "Through our donations to the Windermere Foundation, we are able to provide housing for in-need families in all of our communities. It is our way of showing how blessed we feel as a company to be in such a position to give back." 

The mission of the Windermere Foundation is to support homeless and low-income families. Nationally, non-profit agencies receiving Windermere Foundation dollars have furnished emergency and transitional housing, have subsidized costs for services such as health care, employment counseling, placement and training, day care, scholarships and much more. Contributions from Windermere agents combined with contributions from Windermere employees and the public have allowed the Windermere Foundation to distribute over $2 million annually in recent years to non-profit agencies dedicated to helping homeless and low-income families.

The check presentation ceremony will be held from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. on June 9, 2010, at 178 Westminster Way in Henderson. Refreshments will be served, courtesy of Panera Bread.

Windermere Real Estate Kicks off Search

for Most Deserving Non-profit in Las Vegas

One local organization to receive $25K grant for community outreach

Windermere Real Estate's charitable foundation is now soliciting applications from local non-profit organizations to receive the companys entire 2010 endowment to put toward their community outreach efforts.

Windermere Prestige Properties' Green Valley and Summerlin offices, along with Windermere Anthem Hills office voted to combine their 2010 contributions to the Windermere Foundation, with the purpose of donating it to a single charity. The total amount this year is $25,000, which was funded by a portion of the agent's commissions from each local Windermere sale for 2009. 

The deadline for filing for the grant is April 30, 2010. Organizations that wish to apply must be a registered nonprofit organization and be committed to helping homeless and low-income families in Southern Nevada. The application process can be completed online at www.choosewindermere.com.

Of the submitted applications, Windermere will conduct call-in interviews with the organizations chosen as finalists. The final winner will be announced at a check presentation ceremony on June 1.

"Windermere realizes the past couple of years have been economically challenging for the community, and this is our way of supporting an organization that supports those who have been most affected", said Yates.  "We also encourage other community members to join us in growing this worthy effort, through both monetary donations and active community outreach." 

The mission of the Windermere Foundation is to support homeless and low-income families. Nationally, non-profit agencies receiving Windermere Foundation dollars have furnished emergency and transitional housing, have subsidized costs for services such as health care, employment counseling, placement and training, day care, scholarships and much more. 

Contributions from Windermere agents combined with contributions from Windermere employees and the public have allowed the Windermere Foundation to distribute over $2 million annually in recent years to non-profit agencies dedicated to helping homeless and low-income families.