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04/11/2008
| NAR Delivers Relief Assistance to State Associations, Victims Need More Help 2005 NAR President Al Mansell provides an update on REALTORS®' relief efforts. Read the letter in its entirety below, along with instructions on how you can contribute. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Dear Fellow REALTOR®: As you read this letter, I am in the Gulf Coast region helping to distribute the first checks from the REALTORS® Relief Foundation to provide emergency relief for victims of Katrina, for REALTORS® and other residents of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. Our funds are going directly to foundations set up by the state REALTOR® associations in those states to help those in greatest need to get back on their feet. Every day they are hearing pleas for assistance from REALTORS® and other Gulf storm victims who have suffered terribly in New Orleans, Biloxi, Mobile and other towns across the Gulf Coast. My thanks and prayers go out to the volunteer REALTORS® who have taken on the task of distributing the funds we are raising. In just one week, REALTORS® across the land have given more than $1.2 million to help fellow REALTORS® and other victims of Hurricane Katrina. Counting the funds contributed by NAR, the REALTORS® Relief Foundation has raised nearly $2.4 million. That's a tremendous start, but more will be needed. The needs are huge and the resources are never enough. Thousands of REALTORS® are homeless. Thousands more are out of business, because their communities are in shambles. No one knows how long it will be until their lives are whole again, but surely it will be a matter of many months, perhaps longer. Certainly, it will take that long before the real estate business in the region resembles anything close to what it was like before Katrina struck. Only the REALTOR® Relief Foundations with state funds for Hurricane Katrina victims are specifically tasked with helping REALTORS® and other hurricane victims in need. Our friends and fellow REALTORS® are hurting. They need us. Can you help? EVERY PENNY donated will go directly to help victims of Hurricane Katrina get back on their feet. You can find out more about the REALTORS® Relief Foundation at http://www.realtor.org/katrina. You can make tax-deductible contributions online through NAR's secure Web site: www.realtor.org/relief. If you prefer to mail your tax deductible contribution, make your check payable to the REALTORS® Relief Foundation and mail it to: REALTORS® Relief Foundation Attn: NAR Finance Division 430 N. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60611 Thank you, Al Mansell President NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® |
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