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Five REALTORS® were recognized by the Good Neighbor judges for honorable mention in 2009.

Margaret Pruitt Clark

Ken Meade Realty Inc., Surprise, Ariz.; Eve's Place

Clark founded Eve’s Place, a safe house for victims of domestic violence. Since 2005, Eve’s Place has grown into a 38-bed shelter that offers a 24-hour crisis hotline, professional counseling, support groups, and transitional housing. In 2008, Eve’s Place provided 155 women and 96 children with 5,335 nights of shelter.

Diana J. Croteau

Sun Mountain Properties, Williams, Ariz.; Williams Needs an Angel

Croteau raised $200,000 to build a new elementary school playground after the old one was condemned due to safety concerns. After a tragic car accident took the lives of five local teens, she mobilized the community to raise $55,000 in three days to help the victims’ families. Croteau also chairs the town’s annual six-week Christmas festival, which draws much-needed revenue to the area.

David E. Dalzell

Dalzell, REALTORS®, Abilene, Texas; FaithWorks of Abilene Inc.

Dalzell is active in FaithWorks, a nonprofit that serves the unemployed. He provides the nonprofit’s building rent-free and often gives free or reduced-rent housing and internships to people trying to put their lives on a positive path. He also teaches life skills Bible study classes and founded and manages God’s Workshop, which provides free furniture.

Michelle M. Phaup

Clarkston Realty Inc., Clarkston, Mich.; Lend a Helping Hand Inc.

When a colleague’s 12-year-old granddaughter was diagnosed with terminal cancer, Phaup began a mission to help ease the financial burden of families faced with catastrophic illness. Since 1989, Phaup has sponsored fundraisers that have raised more than $2 million to help pay for uncovered medical expenses.

Jeffrey Davidson Schrager

Realty Blue Inc.

Fresno, Calif.; Community Housing Council of Fresno

Schrager founded No Homeowner Left Behind, a foreclosure prevention initiative that has trained more than 300 housing industry volunteers to counsel home owners. NHLB has aided 6,000 people and has a crisis hotline and a Web site that offers information in six languages. Schrager has helped start NHLB chapters in eight counties and developed a free tool kit to help others get started.

For more information, including how to contact the honorable mentions and their charities, go to REALTOR.org/gna.

Thank You

Founding sponsor eNeighborhoods Inc. (www.eneighborhoods.com), a Realtor Benefits^® partner, provides real estate practitioners with marketing tools built around the detailed data it has compiled on every neighborhood in the United States. Homes.com (www.homes.com) is a leading provider of real estate marketing and media services, featuring homes for sale, home values and a directory of real estate professionals. Lowe's (www.lowes.com), a REALTOR Benefits^® partner, has been working with customers to maintain and improve their homes for more than 60 years. HouseLogic, NAR’s new consumer Web site, helps you stay connected with your clients throughout the entire life cycle of homeownership. HouseLogic provides information for you to share with your clients that will help them maintain, enhance, and protect the value of their homes and build vibrant communities.

Our Judges

Martin Edwards Jr., CCIM, CIPS, 2002 NAR president; E. Leonard Ferber, Jr., GRI, CRS^®, SRES, NAR Housing Opportunity Committee chair; Vicki Cox Golder, CRB, NAR president-elect; Mark Malone, Lowe's vice president of consumer marketing;Matthew Phipps, NAR Communications Committee chair; Frank Sibley, REALTOR^® magazine publisher and NAR senior vice president of communications and conventions; Charles Warnock, Homes.com and eNeighborhoods director of marketing.

Are you a Good Neighbor?

Go to the Good Neighbor Tool Kit at REALTOR.org/gna. There you can learn how to contribute to current and past winners' organizations and nominate someone for the 2010 awards. (Deadline for entries: May 21, 2010.) The tool kit also provides practical tips on how to make the most of your volunteering time.