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REALTOR® Magazine Good Neighbor Awards program recognizes REALTORS® who are improving the lives of others through volunteer work. Each year, five winners are selected to receive $10,000 grants for their charities as well as national publicity to help their cause.
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Want to Give to the Good Neighbor Award Winners' Organizations? Howard G. Freeman Freeman Realty, Inc. 2622 N.W. 43rd Street, Suite C-1 Gainesville, FL 32606 Tel: 352/371-2622 Fax: 352/378-7558 e-mail: hgljfreeman@aol.com STOP! Children's Cancer, Inc. 2632-A 108 N.W. 43rd St. Gainesville, FL 32606 Tel: 352/377-2622 Fax: 352/377-8972 stopcc@bellsouth.net www.stopchildrenscancer.org Since his daughter, Bonnie, was diagnosed with leukemia, Freeman has raised money to support research on preventing, treating, and curing cancer in children. He founded STOP! Children’s Cancer in 1981, and has since raised more than $2 million to fund research and purchase equipment for the divisions of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Pediatric Neuro-oncology, and the Brain Institute at the University of Florida College of Medicine. Freeman raised more than $350,000 in 2004 alone. In 2003, STOP! committed $100,000 a year for 10 years to fund additional research grant applications and has built up a $600,000 legacy fund to fund pediatric cancer research in perpetuity. Today, more than 80 percent of children diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia, the disease that killed Bonnie, are cured.
Carole E. Sharp Coldwell Banker Neuhaus Real Estate 301 West Main St. Staunton, IL 62088 Tel: 618/635-7653 Fax: 618/635-3364 e-mail: csharp1@madisontelco.com www.cbneuhaus.com Staunton Food Pantry 506 S. Maple St. Staunton, IL 62088 Tel: 618/635-7037 Sharp runs the Staunton Food Pantry, which serves more than 60 families a month, up from 15 when she started eight years ago. Unlike larger communities, this town of 5,000 people outside of St. Louis has few national charities for support. Nevertheless, the Staunton Food Pantry has become a model charity in an area where other food pantries have failed. Except for weekly food distributions, Sharp handles the entire operation by herself. She applies for grants and secures corporate sponsors, writes articles for local papers, sorts and inspects all food donations, stocks the shelves—often shopping for needed items herself—and plans food drives through schools, scout troops and churches year round instead of focusing on the traditional holiday season. Sharp acknowledges every donation with a handwritten personal thank-you note.
2005 Honorable Mentions Charlotte Esarey Buck & Buck, Inc., REALTORS® 9137 Merrill Rd. Jacksonville, FL 32225 Tel: 904/641-9466 Fax: 904/641-9484 e-mail: charlotte@bkandb.com Fort Caroline Christian Church 7535 Ft. Caroline Rd. Jacksonville, FL 32277 Tel: 904/744-5522 frtccc@bellsouth.net www.fort-caroline.org Esarey took a leave of absence from her real estate career to travel to Banda Aceh, Indonesia, for two months to help the victims of the Dec. 26 tsunami. A former nurse in the U.S. Navy, Esarey worked with nurses and general contractors to set up make-shift medical clinics to treat victims of the disaster and its aftermath. Through her church, the Fort Caroline Christian Church, and the Jacksonville community, Esarey raised $28,000 to purchase medicine and medical equipment and 12 sets of playground equipment for the children living in camps for displaced people.
Pam Kiker, CRS The Kiker Team, Keller Williams Realty DTC 6300 South Syracuse Way, Suite 150 Englewood, CO 80111 Tel: 303/771-7500 x287 Fax: 303/539-4832 e-mail: pam@thekikerteam.com www.denvermove.com The Adoption Exchange 14232 East Evans Ave. Aurora, CO 80014 Tel: 303/755-4756 Fax: 303/755-1339 kids@adoptex.org www.adoptex.org Kiker is chair of The Adoption Exchange—an organization that recruits families to adopt children who are school-age, have disabilities or have survived abuse and neglect—where she has volunteered for 15 years. The Adoption Exchange, which has placed 431 children since 2004, spends approximately $2,500 to place each child, compared with $20,000 per year it estimates it costs taxpayers for each child in state care. Kiker was the driving force behind establishing the organization’s post-adoptive services program, which trains caseworkers and supports new parents with education, childcare services, and small grants to cover unexpected expenses—with the goal of reducing the number of failed adoptions.
Norma K. "Jeanne" Williams-Livesay William E. Wood & Associates 3237 Western Branch Blvd. Chesapeake, VA 23321 Tel: 757/483-0306 Fax: 757/483-4276 e-mail: NJLivesay@aol.com Portsmouth Volunteers for the Homeless, Inc. 1020 High St. Portsmouth, VA 23704 Tel: 757/399-0200 Fax: 757/399-0200 PVHInc@verizon.net Williams-Livesay coordinates 57 churches to provide shelter and meals to the homeless from November to April for Portsmouth Volunteers for the Homeless Inc. She recruits host churches to house anywhere from 25 to 105 homeless men and women and also provides overnight chaperones and supplies. It can be a complicated task, since churches may be willing to take anywhere from two nights to 10 during the 170 nights of the cold season. Williams-Livesay also finds support churches or local companies to plan, prepare and serve each night’s hot meal. Some guests stay in the shelter only for a short time until they get back on their feet; others are elderly or mentally disabled and will use the services for many years.
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