I am so proud to be the Windermere Foundation Representative for my office. Yesterday all the Windermere Eastside (of Seattle) Foundation Representatives met and reviewed grant requests from many wonderful Eastside Charities. We focus on charities that deal with families facing homelessness and in financial crisis. And clearly, this is a bigger issue than ever before for most of us.

With so many great charities in front of us and with many of us also having personal involvement with these charities, we had some tough decisions. Do you give to a camp for abused kids or do you give that money to help more families that are homeless? Do you give to charities doing amazing work, but with huge budgets and donations coming in or take care of the little guys? Many debates and opinions on where to give out our money.

Did you know a big portion of our money comes from agents commissions? Out of every real estate transaction, a contribution is made to Windermere Foundation. Those funds are kept in the area the agent serves. So, all the contributions from agents on the Eastside are kept on the Eastside of Seattle.

So, where did we give our money yesterday?

Total For 2011 $122,000 I know other Real Estate Companies have foundations, but many of them use that money to promote the company and be sponsors of fundraisers. Less than 2% of our money is admin, the rest goes straight to the charities. There are many reasons I am proud to be a Windermere Agent and this is just one of them! I love a company that takes care of it’s community and gives back.