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Today you may notice your local Windermere office is closed, or it may take a little bit longer for your Windermere agent to get back to you. But we promise it’s for a very good reason: today is Windermere Community Service Day. Since 1984, our agents have taken one day a year off to dig into hands-on community service projects throughout the Western U.S. On this day, you’ll find our teams doing a variety of projects, such as 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.
Follow what our offices are doing on Community Service Day on Facebook! You can also vote for your favorite Community Service Day photos in our #WindermereCSD2016 photo contest. The photo with the most votes will receive a $1,000 donation for the Windermere Foundation charity of their choice. Go here to vote. We encourage you to “like” our Facebook page, follow the Community Service Day projects, and vote for your favorite Community Service Day photos!
A big thank you to all of our Windermere Real Estate offices for the amazing work they do. Community Service Day is an important part of what makes Windermere the place it is, and we appreciate everything they do to make our communities a little better.
Community Service Day Projects:
| Office | Organization | Project | |
| California | |||
| Carlsbad | San Diego Ronald McDonald House | Ice Cream Social for patients & families | |
| Diablo Realty | B Walker Ranch | Building garden boxes, planting olive trees, conditioning the soil, creating signage on the property, painting the alpaca barn, and caring for the alpacas. | |
| El Sobrante, Brentwood and Diablo | B Walker Ranch | Help set up new location grounds for incoming campers | |
| Morgan Hill | Morgan Hill Senior Center | Building maintenance, administrative support and lunch with seniors. | |
| Walnut Creek | Contra Costa & Solano Food Bank | Collecting and sorting food for the local food bank | |
| Colorado | |||
| Fort Collins | The Murphy Center | Sharing donuts, muffins and coffee with homeless community members and assisting with building maintenance; cleaning windows, organizing gear and making bags for the Street Outreach Program. | |
| Hawaii | |||
| Kailua-Kona | Supporting local neighbor with home projects | Managing yard maintenance and other home projects for local single mom with stage 4 breast cancer | |
| Montana | |||
| Bozeman | Springmeadows Assisted Living | Throwing a beach party for the elderly residents | |
| Helena | Lewis & Clark Humane Society | General maintenance | |
| Oregon | |||
| Bend | Healing Reins, Bend, Oregon | Working on the arenas and grounds of Healing Reins. Painting, pulling weeds and organizing tack rooms etc. | |
| Bridgeport/Charbonneau | Community Warehouse | Landscaping and additional maintenance work | |
| Cannon Beach | Gearhart Kids- local children’s center | Installing a mud kitchen, burying tires, building boxes for gardening – and what ever else they need | |
| Corvallis/Albany | Benton County Habitat for Humanity | Working on construction (framing and installing sub-floor) of a home for Habitat for Humanity. | |
| Eugene | Food for Lane County Grassroots Garden | Harvest and clean up the entire garden with over 75 volunteers | |
| Gearhart | Gearhart Kids- local children’s center | Installing a mud kitchen, burying tires, building boxes for gardening – and what ever else they need | |
| Grants Pass & Rogue River | Hearts with a Mission, Josephine County | Outside work: Cleaning up property which includes knocking down long grass and weeds and cleaning up. | |
| Inside work: Cleaning furniture and facility, as directed by program director. | |||
| Hillsboro/Sunset Corridor | The Pantry | Pressure washing the delivery truck, washing out food crates, cleaning aisle shelves, painting the waiting room, and cleaning freezer shelves | |
| Hood River & Bingen | Local Food Bank | Organize & execute a food drive to help local families | |
| Kelso/Longview | Salvation Army and North Lake Elementary | ||
| Lake Oswego- Stellar | Tualatin School House Pantry | Working at a local Food Bank, helping prep food and dry goods for transport | |
| Lake Oswego- West | Oregon Food Bank | Sorting dried goods for redistribution at the Oregon Food Bank in Beaverton. | |
| Lane County | Lane County Food Bank | Volunteering at Food for Lane County's Grassroots Garden | |
| Medford, Eagle Point, Jacksonville & Ashland | Access Food Bank | Collecting bags of food donations | |
| Mill Plains | Fruit Valley Foundation Food Bank & Local Meals on Wheels | Month-long food collection & serving local members of the community through the meals on wheels program | |
| Portland Heights | Project Lemonade | Merchandising a store front that serves foster youth for back to school clothing | |
| Portland- Hollywood | Oregon Humane Society | All agents and employees in our office have donated money and pet supplies for the Oregon Humane Society | |
| Portland- Lloyd Tower | Friends of the Children | Setting up for Fundraising event | |
| Portland- Moreland | Human Solutions | Groundskeeping | |
| Portland- North | Astor Elementary School | Cleaning up the school grounds, weeding, laying bark dust, trimming trees and plants | |
| Portland- NW Johnson | White Shield Garden | Property maintenance & organization | |
| Portland- Raleigh Hills | Hopewell House | Weeding and pruning beds, planting flowers and improving the appearance of the pathways, grounds and fountain for hospice residents, their families and visitors to enjoy. | |
| Redmond | Bright Side Animal Center | Working at the Thrift Shop that supports Brightside Animal Center | |
| Salem | City of Salem Parks | Working at Riverfont Park. Prepping and painting decorative railing and tending to flowerbeds. | |
| Sandy | Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) Adopt A Road program | Collect litter along highway 26, a three-mile strip of roadway in Sandy, Oregon. | |
| Seal Rock | Seashore Family Literacy Center | Improving and maintaining the JOY GARDEN at the Seashore Family Literacy Center | |
| St. Helens/Scappoose | Columbia River food bank | Fundraise and collect food and other supplies for the local food bank | |
| Stevenson | City-wide downtown cleanup | ||
| The Dalles & Property Management- Gorge | The Dalles Mainstreet | Downtown core clean up | |
| Vancouver Metro | Fruit Valley Foundation Food Bank & Local Meals on Wheels | Serving meals for Meals on Wheels at 4 of their locations in Clark County & doing a month-long food drive to benefit the Fruit Valley Foundation | |
| West Linn | West Linn Adult Community Center | Helping with landscaping, cleaning and other projects at the West Linn Adult Community Center | |
| Utah | |||
| Salt Lake City | Salt Lake Somali Refugee Community | Laying sod, repairing fences, building a play ground and some back yard furniture, planting a garden and more to help transform a local home and community meeting space for the Salt Lake City Somali Refugee Community | |
| Washington | |||
| Aberdeen | The Driftwood Playhouse | Cleaning and organizing the costume storage rooms at local live theatre venue | |
| Alderwood | Red Barn Community Farm | Preparing garden beds for summer crops | |
| Ballard | Saint Luke's Church | Revamp kitchen & dining area to serve larger homeless population and beautify outdoor areas | |
| Bellevue | Kelsey Creek Farm | Gardening, weeding, yard cleanup, and painting. | |
| Bellevue Commons | Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center | Painting the caretaker’s home (the whole house!), taking care of rain garden maintenance, weed whacking, and washing windows. The brokers will also be washing the horses’ paddock fencing and arena fencing as well as making repairs. | |
| Bellevue-South | Mountains to Sound Greenway | Restoration of the Sunset Beach area at Lake Sammamish State Park | |
| Bellevue-West | Evergreen Court | Removing ivy and blackberries, washing windows, power washing, and painting | |
| Capitol Hill | City of Seattle | Cleaning up trash on 9 different busy streets, including two on and off ramps in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, and picking up trash and cleaning up the sidewalks | |
| Coupeville | National Park Service/ Prairie Wayside Park | Cleaning graffiti, painting, pruning hedges, scraping moss, clearing paths, picking up trash and beautifying this little gem of a park | |
| Edmonds | Edmonds City Park | At the Edmonds Marsh removing noxious Japanese knot weed | |
| Green Lake | Local Neighbor Support | Help local families with needed maintenance projects | |
| Greenwood | Phinney Center | Working with elderly families on yard projects | |
| Issaquah | YMCA's Camp Terry | Clearing trails, depositing wood chips into play areas, staining new bleachers and picnic tables around the stage and fire pit, and building a large platform for camp-goers to play games. | |
| Kirkland- Central | McAuliffe Park | Local park cleanup | |
| Kirkland- Northeast | Attain Housing | Half the group will be painting and doing yard work while the other half cleans and organizes their office | |
| Kirkland- Yarrow Bay | Heritage Park | Landscape cleanup, view restoration, path cleaning, and weed removal. | |
| Lori Gill & Associates/ Property Management offices | Camp Korey | ||
| Madison Park | Washington Park Arboretum | Clean up | |
| Magnolia | Community support event | Hosting a shredding, eCycle and Goodwill donation event | |
| Marysville | Marysville Historical Society Museum | Landscaping grounds of new museum | |
| Mercer Island | Eastside Baby Corner | Cleaning, sorting and prepping the baby items to be delivered that day to Eastside Baby Corner | |
| Mount Baker | Wellspring Family Services | Helping out in the Baby Boutique | |
| Mukilteo | Mukilteo Food Bank | Collect food for local food bank. Last year they collected more than 2,000 pounds of food. | |
| Oak Harbor | Habitat for Humanity | Aiding in the construction of a new duplex, including framing the ground floor, landscaping and community garden support | |
| Professional Partners (Tacoma) | Northwest Furniture Bank | Helping out in their warehouse and loading and unloading trucks full of furniture and household goods | |
| Professional Partners (Tacoma) | Liberty Road Foundation | Helping them organize their fundraising retail store | |
| Professional Partners (Tacoma) | Purdy-area resident | Helping an elderly resident without the resources to move personal belongings to new residence | |
| Professional Partners (Tacoma) | Key Peninsula area | Helping an elderly couple with necessary yard and home maintenance | |
| Property Management Kent | Northwest Harvest Kent Warehouse | Helping with food sorting for area food bank | |
| Pullman/Moscow | Whitman County Human Society | Pulling weeds, mowing lawns, doing deep clean outs, scrubbing walls and much more | |
| Queen Anne | Food drive and making individual bag lunches for the Queen Anne Helpline | Dropping bags at homes May 30 and 31; picking up and bagging lunches on June 3. | |
| Covering the surrounding Queen Anne area of the office. | |||
| Redmond | YWCA Family Village | Planting flowers, painting stripes in the parking lot, power washing the porches, labeling supplies, and more. | |
| Renton | Emergency Feeding Program | Cleaning up the warehouse and helping them organize the bags of food for delivery to their distribution partners. | |
| Sand Point | NEST (North East Seattle Together) | Helping six elderly families/individuals with home maintenance, including window washing, weeding, trimming bushes, removing moss and other home maintenance projects | |
| Seattle Property Management | Green Seattle Partnership & Weekday Workers | Forest Restoration at Carkeek Park | |
| Seattle Services & Marketing | Magnuson YMCA | Indoor and outdoor maintenance programs in preparation for summer programs | |
| Sequim East & Sunland | Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula | Car wash fundraiser | |
| Shoreline | North Helpline | Sorting and boxing food for the food bank | |
| Spokane | Annual Windermere Marathon/ Foundation Fundraiser | ||
| Vashon Island | Granny's Attic | Clean and organize the local thrift shop. This store donates profits to local area nonprofits. | |
| Wall Street | Mary’s Place | At the Travel Lodge near Seattle Center that was donated by Amazon. | |
| Painting, cleaning, landscaping and getting rooms ready for new families. | |||
| Wedgwood | Wedgwood Community Council | Mowing, edging, weeding and hauling away debris of public space | |
| West Seattle | Single family residence | Painting, planting and landscaping | |
| Woodinville | Park at Bothell Landing | General maintenance and cleanup of the parks next to the Sammamish River to prep the Landing for summer crowds | |
