Windermere’s Northwest Community Service Day is Friday, June 21!

On Friday, June 21, Windermere offices in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Hawaii, and Utah will be closed for a very special reason. Since 1984, Windermere has dedicated the third Friday of June to our annual Community Service Day*. On that day, you will find our team doing a variety of projects, including cleaning, landscaping, and painting at local senior citizens centers, facilities for homeless children and adults, public parks and schools, low income housing, and emergency shelters, among others.

This year we are going to do even more! For each office that posts a Community Service Day photograph or video on the Windermere Real Estate Facebook page, (www.facebook.com/WindermereRealEstate) the Windermere Foundation will donate $100 dollars to that office’s Foundation fund, to benefit low-income and homeless families. We encourage you to “like” our Facebook page, follow the Community Service Day projects, as well as your favorite Community Service Day photos. The office with the most photo/video “likes” and comments will receive a $1,000 donation for the Windermere Foundation charity of their choice. The contest will end Tuesday, July 2.

*Windermere’s Southwest offices hold their Community Service Day in October

Windermere Office Projects for June 21, 2013

CSD Projects 2013

Office	Organization	Project
Hawaii
Maui	The Maui Farm	Painting the playground equipment, working in the organic garden, and cleaning the clubhouse.

Idaho
Boise	CATCH Program	Diaper Drive leading up to the project day, project is cleaning the home. The father is trying to work and the mother is on bed-rest for her current pregnancy and need help getting the home ready for the new baby.
Moscow	Sojourners alliance	Working outside in community gardens.

Montana
Helena	The Family Promise of Helena Day Center	Landscaping and building gates.
Missoula	Saint Patrick’s House	Painting, and landscaping, building a new set of steps for their entry, and refinishing one of the more dated guest rooms.
Ronan	Boys and Girls Club	Partnering with the Boys and Girls club to sponsor an outdoor concert for the community & fundraiser for BGC programs.

Oregon
Cannon Beach	Camp Kiwonilong in Warrenton	Building improvements and landscaping.
Johnson	Clay Street Table of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church	Cleaning up and organizing the food pantry.
Lake Oswego	Youth Villages-Christie Care	Paiting the decks surrounding the pool area, landscaping.
Lloyd Tower	St. Andrew’s Nativity School	gardening and cleaning
Medford, Ashland, and Jacksonville	Hearts with a Mission (Non-profit teen shelter), Youth for Christ (works with teens), and City Life Project (a new non-profit organization just getting underway)	Framing, landscaping, painting, building shelves
Moreland	Boys & Girls Club	Cleaning up and organizing the center, which includes painting, yard work, and cleaning play areas.
Portland Heights	Children’s Book Bank	Cleaning books that will be packaged to send home with children over the summer.
Portland- NE	McCoy Academy	Painting, installing flooring, general organizing and gardening.
Portland- North	Astor School & St. Johns Traffic Island	Painting office spaces and clearing weeds
Portland- Raleigh Hills	Legacy Hopewell House Hospice Facility	Weeding, sweeping, planting lots of annuals to brighten the garden beds and the spirits of those who work, visit or are patients at Hopewell House.
Portland- Sunset Corridor & Hillsboro	Barnes Elementary School	Clean and spruce up grounds around Barnes Elementary School and their community garden, repaint and restore playground map.
Redmond	Redmond Family Access Network	3rd Annual Windermere Garage Sale to benefit the Redmond Family Access Network.
Salem	YWCA Community Outreach Shelter	Painting interior of shelter with light cheerful colors for families “in transition”.
Sandy	Oregon Department of Transportation’s Adopt-A-Highway Program	Picking up trash along Highway 26 through downtown Sandy, Oregon.
St. Helens	Habitat for Humanity	Painting the outside of the building.
West Linn	West Linn Adult Community Center	Landscaping.



Utah
Foothill Office, Union Park Office, Park City & Coalville Offices	Head Start	Interior/Exterior Painting, Installing Sprinkler System, Leveling old asphalt, Landscaping, Replacing Shed Floors.

Washington
Arlington	City of Arlington Parks Department	Cleaning up and landscaping our adopted part in downtown
Bainbridge Island	Bainbridge Island Parks Department	Final clean-up work on a new hiking trail at Ft. Ward Park.
Bellevue- Commons	Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center in Redmond	Fence building, painting, cleaning horse stall items, cleaning horse tack, building horse run ins, gardening.
Burien	Valley View Elementary	Build playground sandbox.
Centralia	Adna Schools (Middle & High Schools)	Landscaping, painting and Cleaning
Coupeville	Coupeville Boys and Girls Club	Setting up summer project kits, and cleanup of computers.
Federal Way	Bethel Christian	Support Transitional Housing needs
Issaquah	Camp Terry	Landscaping, painting, demo projects, trail Maintenance/creation, cleaning.
Kelso Longview	CAP Self Help Housing project for Castle Rock
Kent Property Management	Kent Youth and Family Services	Painting
Kingston/ West Sound	The Village Green Park	Building a temporary log bridge, weeding, raking, brush clearing, pressure washing & sign installation.
Kirkland- Central	KITH (Kirkland Interfaith Transitions in Housing)	Two locations: tear down a fence that needs to go, weed, power wash, raking, landscaping, etc.
Lynnwood	The Red Barn Community Farm	Weeding, planting, building, painting for Food Bank crops.
Mercer Island	City of Mercer Island	Park restoration at Mercerdale Park. Landscaping, weeding & installing bark
Monroe	Take the Next Step/ a homeless, low-income, drop-in/info/service center	Prepping Next Step’s 2 story building for painting, yard work, cleaning, misc. tasks
Mukilteo	Mukilteo Food Bank	Community “Out-Reach” Event to area businesses and grocery stores for “food” donations for the Mukilteo Food Bank. We will have donation receptacles at multiple locations and our volunteers at the major grocery stores the day of the event.
Northgate	Northgate Elementary School	Landscaping & painting.
Northshore	Northshore Senior Center Bothell	Landscaping, painting, and cleaning.
Ocean Shores	North Bay Park	Cleaning the playground equipment, pressure washing the facilities building in preparation for painting, and cleaning the covered picnic area.
Pullman	Chamber of Commerce	Cleaning up the grounds around a rock wall and in front of the chamber.
Puyallup	Old Soldier’s Home in Orting	Landscaping, painting and flower planting.
Renton	City of Renton at Kiwanis Park	Improving and beautifying the park by weeding, spreading wood chips and bark, pruning and planting new materials.
San Juan/ Friday Harbor	Mullis Street Senior Center	Enhance and beautify the landscaping and building exterior.
Seattle- Greenlake	Green Lake Community Center	Center & grounds improvement.
Seattle- Greenwood	Boys and Girls Club of North Seattle	Painting the teen room
Seattle- Magnolia	Discovery Park	Working with the Parks Adopt an Area program, reclaiming natural habitat, removing invasive plants and mulching indigenous plants and trees.
Seattle- Mount Baker	Cheasty Green Space	Park Clean Up
Seattle- Property Management	Hopelink	Canned food drive to help with Hopelinks End Summer Hunger campaign. “help provide low-income families with food for kids who receive free and reduced-fee breakfasts and lunches during the school year
Seattle- Queen Anne	Discovery Park	Working with the Parks Adopt an Area program, reclaiming natural habitat, removing invasive plants and mulching indigenous plants and trees.
Seattle- Relocation Services	Noel House	Cooking and serving breakfast for the ladies in transitional housing.
Seattle- Sand Point	Sand Point Elementary	Building a play structure.
Seattle- Sand Point	Magnuson YMCA	Clean up and general help.
Seattle- Services	Ryther	Grounds improvement, including: landscaping & painting.
Seattle- Wall Street	Discovery Park	Working with the Parks Adopt an Area program, reclaiming natural habitat, removing invasive plants and mulching indigenous plants and trees.
Seattle-Wedgwood	Solid Ground	The 45 Brokers and staff of Wedgwood will be painting interior walls, cleaning up exterior spaces, upgrading both play areas and walkways, and weeding and applying mulch.
Spokane	Hearth Homes – Transitional Housing/Counseling/Education for Homeless	Painting, landscaping, installing cedar and chain link fencing, creating concrete pathways, building a sunroom, tearing down a garage, re-siding a storage shed, resurfacing a parking lot, remodeling a room into a computer workstation, installing a new stackable washer/dryer
Tri-Cities- Kennewick	Benton Franklin Humane Society	Building gazebos, landscaping, building agility toys, laying pavers and building a pen w/UGS & Sod.
Vancouver Mill Plain and Officer’s Row	Fruit Valley Food Drive	Hosting a food drive, filling backpacks with food and taking the backpacks to local schools and hand them out to low-income students so they have food to eat with their families over the weekend.
Walla Walla	City of Walla Walla & YWCA	Re-stain downtown benches, Weed downtown tree wells, Clean trash cans on Main Street, Special project for the YWCA Family Shelter
Washington Property Management South	Watson Manor	Painting, cleaning & yard care
West Seattle	The Green Seattle Parntership: Me-Kwa-Mooks Park	Mulch planted areas and remove invasive species.
Whidbey Island – Freeland and Langley	Good Cheer Food Bank & Donation Center at Bayview	Working in the Good Cheer Garden where food is grown for distribution in the Food Bank, and in the food bank itself: stocking shelves and repackaging bulk food items, the donation center sorting clothes and donations for sale in the thrift store, and on various maintenance projects around the building and grounds.
Windermere Professional Partners (Tacoma- North, Professional Partners & Tacoma- University Place, Tcoma Property Management)	Emergency Food Network	Repack bulk fresh, frozen and dry food into smaller family size portions for hungry families and individuals in need.
Windermere Property Management / Lori Gill & Associates	Camp Korey	Cleaning, gardening, weeding, organizing, and arts/crafts projects in preparation for their summer campers.
Woodinville	Woodinville Family Preschool	Staining fences and play structures and planting flowers.