Washington State Agents to Hold Fund Raiser

Posted at 12:01 PM, Sep. 2, 2005

Great to hear from you and so glad to see the effort that Realtors are making to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. When I think about the long-term effects so many will feel in their business and lives, and yet to be giving so much of themselves is really impressive. Even though I am far away, I have been so horribly upset by everything that I am seeing on the news, it's just devastating. I pray for you all.

Up here in Washington state we want to help. I am organizing an effort with other individuals in my office of Windermere to do a fundraiser for food and monetery donations for the Realtor's Relief Foundation and also to America's Second Harvest. We will be sitting outside area grocery stores, and contacting our spheres, farms, whoever we can, to help raise money and non-perishable food for these two organizations. My belief is that these are good ways to help meet the two most basic human needs of food and shelter.

The lady at our local office of ASH says they need to raise $2M to create a food distribution network into the area (warehouses, trucks, setting up feeding stations etc.) and they also need food to keep the supply of food stable for hungry people here, as they divert resources to the hurricane victims. So both kinds of donations can really help.

Do you have any insight into how the funds for the Realtors Relief will be distributed? How it works to actually find homes for these people?

Anyway, I just wanted to let you know. You can post it to the blog. It might give other Realtors across the country an idea for a great way to help even if we are too far away to open our homes.

From: Sandy Kaduce [mailto:sandyk@windermere.com]