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REALTORS® Reach Out
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REALTORS® Reach Out

October 1-31, 2009

 

Governor Edward G. Rendell's Proclamation (PDF)


PAR is calling on all REALTORS® to once again give back to their communities during REALTORS® Reach Out month October 1-31. This year PAR is extending the initiative for a month so that more associations/boards have the opportunity to participate. Last year was a great success. More than 2200 REALTORS® volunteered and raised more than $28,000 for charitable organizations. To be featured on this page, register your association/board’s community service project prior to the event. Don’t forget to take pictures! After your event, send your pictures to photos@parealtor.org along with the caption to be included in our interactive slideshow. For questions or more information, contact Samantha Elliott Krepps, external communications specialist, at skrepps@parealtor.org.
 
 

Pennsylvania Association of REALTORS®
Rebuilding Together Partnering with Rebuilding Together
New Hope Ministries Organization: New Hope Ministries
Event: Assisting New Hope Ministries by rehabbing a newly acquired building that will serve as the organization’s food pantry.
Date: October 5, 2009

Allegheny Valley Board of REALTORS®
Organization: Visiting Nurses Association Hospice House and Humane Society
Event: Clarion/Forest County REALTORS® are supporting the Clarion/Forest County Visiting Nurses Association Hospice House with a painting project on October 5th. The Venango County REALTORS® are supporting the Venango County Humane Society with a food drive all month long and a painting project on Oct. 17th.
Date: October 5 and October 17, 2009
News Coverage: TheDerrick.com

Beaver County Association of REALTORS®
Organization: Heart Walk
Event: Participating in the 3.5 mile walk and also raising money to donate to Heart Walk.
Date: October 3, 2009
 
Organization: Local charities
Event: Raising money with an Annual Charity Auction. Money raised is donated to local charities like the Salvation Army, Habitat for Humanity, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Yellow Ribbon Girls, Girl's Hope, Women's Shelter and many more. We have a live, silent and Chinese auction of items donated from REALTORS®, Brokers, Affiliates and local merchants. We raffle off lottery trees, 50/50 and a basket of cheer. We also added a bake sale where you buy your dessert to help raise money.
Date: November 4, 2009

Bradford Sullivan Association of REALTORS®
Organization: Food pantries
Event: Collecting donations and non-perishable items from local super markets and businesses to give to the local food pantries from the Bradford/Sullivan areas.
Date: October 1-31, 2009

Bucks County Association of REALTORS®
Organization: American Red Cross
Event: Blood Drive
Date: October 22, 2009
 
Organization: Bucks County Housing Group
Event: Food Drive for BCHG three food pantries in Milford Square (Upper Bucks) , Doylestown (Central Bucks) and Penndel (Lower Bucks).
Date: October 1-31, 2009
 
Organization: Bucks County Housing Group
Event: Clothing Drive - BCAR will have a clothing bin on-site for members to drop clothing and household items. Members are encouraged to bring donations with them to BCAR headquarters when they attend meetings, seminars and courses during the month of October.
Date: October 1-31, 2009
 
Organization: Bucks County Housing Group
Event: Fall Clean Up Day at Milford Square Homeless Shelter and Deliver Food Drive Donations. Pull weeds, mulch, plant bulbs, painting, weigh & stock food pantry with food donations.
Date: October 19, 2009
 
Organization: Bucks County Housing Group
Event: Halloween Party for children at the Penndel & Morrisville homeless shelters and low income housing apartments. REALTORS volunteers will organize a costume parade, paint faces, provide treats and games.
Date: October 31, 2009
 
Organization: Habitat for Humanity
Event: The volunteers will be working in Habitat for Humanity of Bucks County Re-Store. They will be organizing donations, restocking shelves and serving as cashiers.
Date: October 6, 10, and 13, 2009
 
Organization: Bucks County Housing Group
Event: Fall Clean Up Day at Penndel Homeless Shelter and Deliver Food Drive Donations. Pull weeds, mulch, plant bulbs, painting, weigh and stock food pantry with food donations.
Date: October 20, 2009

Butler County Association of REALTORS®
Organization: VNA Hospice
Event: Basket Bingo featuring Longaberger Baskets at Lyndora American Legion Hall.
Date: October 4, 2009

Carbon County Association of REALTORS®
Organization: Children in need
Event: Comedy Night to benefit the needy children in the five school districts in Carbon County. We also held a basket raffle and a 50/50 drawing.
Date: May 2, 2009
 
Organization: Children in need
Event: We have a booth at the Carbon County Fair to sell tickets for a basket raffle to raise proceeds for our charities that we contribute to at Christmas time.
Date: August 5-10, 2009
 
Organization: Sheperd House
Event: Month long food drive to support the 9 food banks in Carbon County
Date: October 8-31, 2009

Central Susquehanna Valley Board of REALTORS®
Organization: Area food banks
Event: We will be collecting non-perishable foods and super-market gift cards to restock the food banks in our five-county area: Columbia County, Montour County, Northumberland County, Snyder County and Union County.
Date: October 1-31, 2009

Centre County Association of REALTORS®
Organization: American Red Cross
Event: For the Centre County Chapter of the American Red Cross, we are conducting a "Blood Donor Challenge" between the brokerages and affiliate member organizations as well. The competition will use per capita contributions made for the size of the company to level the playing field. The local Texas Steak House has agreed to provide a $15 entree certificate to donors from the winning company.
Date: September 21, 2009

Fayette Board of REALTORS®
Organization: Community Action Agency
Event: Coat Drive - Donating coats to be distributed to members of the community that are in need
Date: October 28, 2009
 
Organization: War & Veterans Committee
Event: Collecting needed items to be packed and shipped to U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq
Date: October 20, 2009
 
Organization: Jubilee Soup Kitchen
Event: Donating money to pay one month's rent and gas
Date: October 14, 2009

Greater Harrisburg Association of REALTORS®
Organization: Various
Event: Collection of various needed items for multiple local organizations, including Bethesda Mission, Domestic Violence Services, Ronald McDonald House, Downtown Daily Bread, New Hope Ministries, Shalom House, and Joshua Group. Members will bring items to GHAR during the collection period. On Friday, October 9, volunteers will deliver collected items to the organizations.
Date: September 1 - October 8, 2009
 
Organization: Various
Event: GHAR Work Day - In addition to delivering the Wish List Drive items, volunteers will sign up to go work at various organizations. Specific work day projects to be determined, but will include home improvements/repairs, food preparation/serving, clean-up/organizing, etc.
Date: October 9, 2009

Greater Hazelton Association of REALTORS®
Organization: Habitat for Humanity
Event: Helping a family with the American dream of owning their own home.
Date: October 3, 2009
 
Organization: Safe Harbor Lighthouse
Event: Safe Harbor Lighthouse collects food for Thanksgiving and other times of the year to feed people who cannot afford to have a Thanksgiving, Christmas or Easter meal.
Date: November 17-20, 2009
 
Organization: Habitat for Humanity
Event: Golf tournament proceeds will go to Habitat for Humanity
Date: September 25, 2009

Greater Philadelphia Association of REALTORS®
Organization: Philabundance
Event: GPAR is holding a food drive to benefit Philabundance. Philabundance is the region’s largest hunger relief organization. They serve low income residents at risk of hunger and malnutrition of which 23% are children and 16% are senior citizens. They provide food through a network of agencies in the Delaware Valley. Member agencies include food cupboards, shelter or residential programs, social service agencies, emergency kitchens and neighborhood distribution programs who reach people in need.
Date: October 2009

Greater Scranton Board of REALTORS®
Organization: American Red Cross
Event: A Blood Drive will be held at the Clarks Summit United Methodist Church, Grove Street and Morgan Highway in Clarks Summit from 12 Noon to 6 PM.
Date: October 23, 2009
 
Organization: American Red Cross
Event: Special fundraising event during the Board Membership Luncheon.
Date: October 20, 2009
 
Organization: American Cancer Society
Event: Spaghetti Dinner on Sunday, November 1, 2009 from 12 Noon to 5 PM at Mariano's Cucina, 414 Church St., Jessup.
Date: November 1, 2009

Greater Wilkes-Barre Association of REALTORS®
Organization: Catherine McAuley Center
Event: "The Grape Escape" It is a wine tasting event being held at Rodano's Bar and Restaurant, 53 Public Square, Wilkes Barre, Pa. on Thursday Oct 8th at 7PM. The event will feature wine tasting, hors d'oeuvres, prizes, music and fun!
Date: October 8, 2009

Lancaster County Association of REALTORS®
Organization: Transitional Living Center
Event: LCAR is holding their Twenty-First Annual Charity Dinner to benefit the Transitional Living Center (TLC). Proceeds from the event will be designated to the Program Department which provides the educational and supportive services for TLC participants. Since 1989, LCAR has contributed in excess of $285,000 to the facility. LCAR is looking forward to another successful event to help aid in TLC's efforts to provide local transitional housing.
Date: October 8, 2009

Lebanon County Association of REALTORS®
Organization: Lebanon County Habitat for Humanity
Event: Homecoming for Habitat Charity Auction: Our 12th annual charity auction to benifit our local Habitat for Humanity chapter. This year we will be auctioning theme gift baskets donated by all the local Real Estate offices and our affiliates. We also have jewelry, stained glass, water color paintings, framed photographs, metal sculptures and pottery, all donated by local artists. Our goal this year is to top $100,000 in donations to date.
Date: October 9, 2009

Lehigh Valley Association of REALTORS®
Organization: Second Harvest Food Bank
Event: Unmask Hunger Food Drive to benefit Second Harvest Food Bank. Members of the Lehigh Valley Association of REALTORS® as well as the public are asked to donate food or a monetary gift to directly benefit people in the Lehigh Valley area. The goal is to fill a 3,500 sq. ft. warehouse with food for the hungry.
Date: Oct. 1 - Nov. 19, 2009

Montgomery County Association of REALTORS®
Organization: Family Services
Event: In support of Family Services' Project HEARTH (Helping Edlerly Adults Remain in their Homes) program, teams of MCAR volunteers will perform yard clean-up activities at the homes of 14 elderly residents. Raking leaves, pruning trees and bushes, tidying gardens and more will be done at each of the properties.
Date: October 5-9. 2009

Pike/Wayne Association of REALTORS®
Organization: American Red Cross
Event: Basket Raffle - Raffle tickets are sold throughout the evening and all donated baskets are on display to view so people can drop their raffle tickets in front of the baskets they are interesed in winning. The baskets are then raffled off, one by one. Last year over 160 people attended. All proceeds benefit the Wayne-Pike Chapter of the American Red Cross.
Date: October 28, 2009

Pocono Mountains Association of REALTORS®
Organization: Seven local food banks
Event: The membership and the community will be able to donate food to support seven of our local food banks during the entire month of October.
Date: October 1-31, 2009

Reading-Berks Association of REALTORS®
Organization: Berks Women in Crisis
Event: We will be hosting a "Baby Shower Week" for Berks Women in Crisis as we collect baby items, gently used children's clothing as well as other items needed for the shelter. We will ask volunteers at each office to collect items and then have the shower at our office on the last day of the drive to collect all the donations and take pictures. The shower will be complete with punch, cake and party "favors". We will also be doing a women's clothing drive to provide to the women at this shelter.
Date: One week in October, 2009 (Week to be determined)
 
Organization: Habitat for Humanity
Event: Reading-Berks Association of REALTORS® raised over $500 for the Berks County Habitat for Humanity at our annual golf outing at Willow Hollow Golf Course.
Date: September 23, 2009
 
Organization: Coats for Kids
Event: We are holding a collection of coats, hats, mittens, gloves and scarves for the Coats for Kids campaign. We are encouraging our members to donate as well as collect items from the public at their open houses held on October 17/18 and 24/25. We are running special prices in our Buyers Real Estate Weekly for those agents participating as well as advertising it in the Reading Eagle and online.
Date: October 2009
 
Organization: Greater Reading Food Bank
Event: Food/donations drive for the Greater Reading Food Bank throughout the month of October. We are asking members to bring a can of food to our Fall Membership Meeting on October 15th.
Date: October 2009
 
Organization: Berks Counseling Center
Event: Collecting gently used professional clothing for men and women for the Berks Counseling Center's Recovery Shop. They provide professional clothing to men and women returning to the workforce after counseling and training.
Date: October 2009

REALTORS® Association of York and Adams Counties
Organization: York/Adams Food banks
Event: During our Affiliate Marketplace and Annual Business meeting on October 7th, we are asking all members who attend that event to bring in non perishable food items to donate to local food banks in York and Adams Counties.
Date: October 7, 2009

Schuylkill County Board of REALTORS®, Inc.
Organization: Schuylkill County Child Development Organization
Event: Our Community Service Committee Chairman, Judy Barket, is leading a project titled "Shoes For Souls". Her goal is to collect at least 75 new pairs of shoes for children in need, Pre-K through 2nd grade (ages 4-8), in Schuylkill County. Members are requested to purchase shoes or make a donation that will be put toward the purchase of shoes. The Schuylkill County Child Development Organization will distribute the shoes to children in our area.
Date: October 2009

Suburban West REALTORS® Association

Organization: Partnership in Education

Event: The purpose of the Partnership in Education program is to support an education scholarship program for deserving students in their pursuit of higher education. The objective is to not only support and advocate the education goals of young adults, the intent is to also enhance the public image of REALTORS® in this region and demonstrate our commitment to youth and the community-at-large.
Date: July 27, 2009

Washington-Greene Association of REALTORS®
Organization: Washington County Food Bank
Event: All member offices will be collecting food for the local food bank. There will be recognition for the offices that reach a set goal. The Board of Directors will be working with the Food Bank to stock the shelves when the drive is complete.
Date: October 2009
 
Organization: Habitat for Humanity Renovation Station store
Event: Collecting building materials for our Habitat for Humanity Renovation Station store. Donations are dropped off every Saturday in the month of October.
Date: October 2009

West Branch Valley Association of REALTORS®
Organization: Shepherds of the Street
Organization: Laurel Youth Services - Holiday Rally
Organization: United Way Campaign
Date:TBA