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More Thriving Economy, Clean Air, and Chinese Film Draw Homebuyers to Seattle Earlier this week, I attended the Pacific Rim Summit which was hosted by Seattle’s local chapter of the Asian Real Estate Association of America (AREAA). While the overarching discussion was about international home buyers, the main focus was on wealthy Chinese families seeking out cities that can offer their children better educational opportunities and cleaner air.
More Windermere Gives Back with 30th Annual Community Service Day On Friday, October 17, Windermere offices in Arizona, California, Colorado, and Nevada will be closed for a very special reason. For the past 30 years, Windermere has dedicated the third Friday of October to our annual Community Service Day.
More Perspectives – Standards of Practice As you’ve probably heard, the housing market is a little crazy right now. Every day we hear stories from our agents about the competition among buyers and what it takes to secure the winning offer. Escalation clauses, love letters, waived contingencies, non-refundable earnest money. The list goes on and on. Navigating this type of market requires an agent with moxy.
More August Perspectives: Summer Splash at Green Lake Bring a pair of new or gently used sneakers (kids sizes 1-9) to the event and our friends at Gentle Giant Moving Company will make sure they’re delivered to the King County Boys and Girls Club, and Mary’s Place, in time for the first day of school. Can’t make it to the Summer Splash? No problem. Just drop off the sneakers at any local Windermere office between now and August 15.
More Please Donate to Our Kicks for Kids Sneaker Drive You can help make a difference in the lives of local low-income kids by dropping off a pair of new or gently used tennis shoes (kids’ sizes 1–9) at one of our participating Windermere offices. You can also bring them to the Windermere Summer Splash event on August 16 at Green Lake in Seattle.
More Mid-Year Foundation Report Thanks to your donations, the Windermere Foundation has been able to disburse nearly $840,000 to non-profit organizations throughout our network, during the first half of 2014. This included 269 grants, with an average grant size of $3,121—grants that support programs like weekend meals for school kids.
More Announcing the Winner of the Community Service Day Facebook Challenge! On June 20, Windermere offices in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Hawaii, Alaska, and Utah all took a day off from selling homes to help make a difference in their local communities. Our offices were challenged to share photos and videos from their community service day event on the Windermere Real Estate Facebook page.
More Celebrating 25 Years of the Windermere Foundation In honor of this anniversary, we want to take a moment to reflect on some of the milestones the Windermere Foundation has achieved over the past 25 years. We also want to recognize and thank everyone who has helped us get to where we are today – especially our agents who continually embody the notion that service to others is not something you do, it is who you are.
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More Follow your local Community Service Day projects! Thirty years and more than one million hours of community service later, we've continued this tradition through neighborhood-enhancing projects in the areas where our Windermere teams live, work, and play. Follow our projects online at www.facebook.com/WindermereRealEstate.
More June Perspectives We were reminded that philanthropy is not a one-size-fits-all proposition – and it got us thinking about our own charitable efforts at Windermere. While we’re incredibly proud of what we’ve been able to achieve through the Windermere Foundation, can we do more? The answer is always yes. For us, that comes in the form of our annual Community Service Day.
More Windermere First Quarter 2014 Summary The Windermere Foundation disbursed $276,547 to non-profit organizations during the first quarter of 2014, including 117 grants, with an average grant size of $2,364.
More GiveBIG to the Windermere Foundation on May 6! This year, Windermere is participating in the fourth annual Seattle Foundation GiveBIG event! Help us stretch donations today.
More Windermere Foundation “Agents of Change” newsletter Take a look and see for yourself how your generosity is making a difference for those in your community who need it most.
More The Windermere Cup: a Celebration of Community and Sport It’s that commitment to excellence, seen on the face of every rower on every shell at the Windermere Cup that makes us proud to sponsor this event each year. It reminds us of our own guiding principles at Windermere: strong relationships built on trust, goodwill, and mutual respect.
More The Winners of the Windermere Charity Challenge are.. We would like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who participated in the Windermere Foundation Charity Challenge! We had high expectations for this event, but were amazed by the more than 78,500 votes that were cast over the past three weeks.
More Windermere Foundation 25th Anniversary Charity Challenge Last week we announced the start of the Windermere Foundation 25th Anniversary Charity Challenge and we couldn't be more excited by the results! Almost 19,000 people have voted to help determine which five organizations will each win a $25,000 donation from the Windermere Foundation.
More Windermere Foundation Celebrates 25th Anniversary With “Charity Challenge” Five winning non-profit organizations to receive a total of $125,000
More Supporting programs that help low-income and homeless families for over 25 years. For the past 25 years, the Windermere Foundation has donated a portion of the proceeds from every home purchased or sold through Windermere towards supporting low-income and homeless families in our communities.
More February Perspectives This year, the Windermere Foundation proudly celebrates 25 years of giving back to those in our communities who need it most. Our mission is simple: support non-profit agencies dedicated to helping homeless and low-income families.
More Why Windermere? Our new ad campaign provides the answer. It all really goes back to our founder, John Jacobi, a young banker who wanted to help change an industry that wasn't known for its professionalism. His focus was to put relationships before sales quotas, with an emphasis on service to our clients and our community.

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