FEATURE: REALTOR® Magazine’s 2007 Good Neighbor Awards

Honorable Mentions

These five Good Neighbor honorable mentions will each receive a $2,500 grant for their cause.

BY REALTOR® MAGAZINE STAFF

Randall Barnett, The Buyer’s Agent of Asheville, Asheville, N.C. Volunteering for 26 years with the Boy Scouts of America, Barnett, ABR®, has been leader of a unique troop of boys with mental and physical disabilities, the only troop like it in North Carolina. Barnett holds weekly meetings for 27 boys, teaching them typical scouting skills like knot tying, campfire building, and how to properly fold an American flag—making adjustments for each scout’s limitations. He also takes them camping — giving the boys confidence, a sense of belonging, and the opportunity to experience things they might not otherwise enjoy.

Tricia Carlisle-Northcutt, Stellar Properties & Investments LLC, Grayton Beach, Fla. Carlisle-Northcutt, CRS®, is the founder of Children’s Volunteer Health Network, which provides free medical, dental, and mental health care to children without insurance. In only two years, CVHN has provided care to 300 children using a network of more than 80 doctors, dentists, and mental health professionals, all of whom donate their services. CVHN serves low-income children in two Florida counties where access to healthcare is poor.

Ted K. Gilbert, Gilbert Bros., Portland, Ore.Gilbert is cofounder, chair, and visionary of HOST Development, an affordable housing developer that since 1989 has helped more than 300 low- and moderate-income renters become home owners. Gilbert’s innovative strategies include obtaining low-interest loans on land to help keep overall home costs down; partnering with banks to give low-interest mortgages to buyers; and obtaining loans from large local employers in return for providing employees with closing costs, homebuying seminars, and low-interest mortgages.

Pamela Kidd and Keri Cannon, Fridrich & Clark Realty LLC, Nashville, Tenn. Since 1999, Kidd and her daughter, Cannon, have been helping AIDS orphans in Zimbabwe. In 2005 they founded Village Hope, an orphanage and farm in Zimbabwe for 16 orphans whose parents died of AIDS, which afflicts as much as 25 percent of the area’s population. The children—most of whom would be dead or living on the streets without Village Hope—now live in a family setting with houseparents. The children go to school, learn to care for animals, and plant crops—skills they need to become productive adults.

MaliVai O. Washington, Washington Properties LLC, Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.
In 1994, Washington founded the The MaliVai Washington Kids Foundation, which promotes academic achievement and positive life skills to disadvantaged children through tennis. In the past eight years, 254 first- through sixth-grade students have gone through the intense five-day-a-week after-school program. The free program provides three hours daily of tutoring, community service work, and character development, using tennis as a reward.