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By Connie Adair
Real estate sales reps assistance people find their dream homes any day, though what about those whose usually dream is to have a protected and pacific place to live but violence? The Royal LePage Shelter Foundation helps them too. Canada’s largest open substructure dedicated to ancillary shelters and interlude a cycle of family assault lifted a record-breaking $1.8-million in 2010.
Royal LePage underwrites a executive costs, that means 100 per cent of a supports lifted go to a some-more than 200 Canadian shelters a substructure supports, says Shanan Spencer-Brown, who assimilated a preserve substructure as executive executive in mid-January 2011. The Toronto-based substructure has 3 full-time staff and 3 staff common with Royal LePage.
The substructure was determined in 1999 after agents and brokers were surveyed about what they suspicion were a pivotal issues and how they could make a biggest impact, Spencer-Brown says. “That there are people (for whom) home is not a protected place overwhelmed a Realtors,” she says.
In Canada, half of all women will knowledge abuse during their lifetime and any year 360,000 children are unprotected to their mom being abused, a association news recover says. Forming a free substructure was seen as a best approach to concentration efforts and as a approach to make a many suggestive contribution, Spencer-Brown says.
“The free substructure was also a approach of demonstrating trust and burden to donors, to uncover donors their contributions are being used in a best approach probable and that we’re holding a long-term perspective to creation a difference.”
Shanan Spencer-Brown
Spencer-Brown has some-more than 12 years of knowledge in module growth and fundraising positions in non-profit organizations that concentration on children’s mental health, family assault and child development. Her many new position was with a Kinark Foundation, where she served as executive executive obliged for account growth plan and doing in support of Canada’s largest community-based children’s mental health agency. Previously she was a executive of module and account growth obliged for all fundraising programs during a Child Development Institute, that has a poignant concentration on family violence.
The 13-year-old substructure helps some-more than 30,000 women and children any year with supports lifted by representative elect contributions and other fund-raising activities. The Royal LePage network consists of some-more than 14,000 real estate agents and brokers in some-more than 600 locations opposite a nation and has lifted $12-million given 1999.
Funds lifted in a village stay in that community, while inhabitant fund-raising projects, such as a National Garage Sale for Shelter, support long-term assault impediment and preparation programs.
The one-day gift garage sale, hosted by some-more than 120 Royal LePage offices opposite a country, lifted $120,000 in a initial year, $315,000 in a second year and $420,000 this year.
Each year, 50,000 red tulip bulbs are planted by a Shelter Blooms recognition program, and in open when a tulip bulbs bloom, people are again reminded about a cause.
Nationally, a substructure has partnered with a Canadian Women’s Foundation, holding a long-term perspective to preventing family assault by appropriation assault impediment work. Also on a inhabitant level, a substructure has partnered with Fourth R, a curriculum-based preparation module now offering in some-more than 1,000 Canadian classrooms. It teaches assault impediment to 50,000 class 8 and 9 students any year.
In her purpose as a preserve foundation’s executive director, Spencer-Brown skeleton to continue to rise and strengthen relations and safeguard brokers and agents feel connected to a foundation’s work. They need to see that their income is unequivocally helping, that they yield a new start for women and children, and might also save a life, she says.
She also wants to rivet newer agents to pointer adult as elect donors, a life blood of a substructure that provides ongoing appropriation via a year.
The substructure offers support to offices by providing an online fund-raising page, oath forms and other materials to make agents’ and brokers’ fund-raising efforts some-more successful.
Donors are famous by a Shelter Awards and supposing with logos they can use on their selling materials to uncover they support their community.
Another singular underline of a company’s enlightenment is that any inhabitant and informal event, such as training programs and conferences, has a preserve component, such as a wordless auction, to lift funds.
For some-more information, revisit www.royallepage.ca/shelter.
Top photo:
At a new Garage Sale for Sheler event, from left: Ahmed Helmi, broker/manager, Royal LePage Real Estates Services, Toronto; Phil Soper, boss and CEO, Royal LePage; Shanan Spencer-Brown, executive director, Royal LePage Shelter Foundation; Beverley McAleese, executive director, Nazareth House; and Leila Brewster, sales rep, Royal LePage Real Estates Services.
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