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Since 1989, the Windermere Foundation has raised over $50 million for low-income and homeless children and families. Learn more about our philanthropy, partnerships, and how we support the communities we serve.

More Words for Windermere During the months of February and March, we asked Windermere Owners, Agents, and Facebook followers to share the words that come to mind when they think about Windermere. We were pleasantly surprised by the consistency across all three groups and decided to create a word map with the results.
More Building Better Communities – March Edition Windermere offices throughout our network work with local organizations year-round to raise money for the Windermere Foundation and their local communities. In 2011, we launched the “Building Better Communities, One Home Sale at a Time” campaign, to raise awareness for some of the amazing community partnerships our offices and agents have developed.
More Windermere Kids: Raising money for afterschool programs On March 3, the Windermere Foundation and the YMCA will participate in the annual Husky Hoops free-throw fundraiser.
More Windermere Foundation Quarterly Report Happy 2013 – hope this New Year is off to a great start! We have many stories (and raves!) to share with you about how your support of the Windermere Foundation translated into meaningful and necessary help for so many struggling families in 2012. Collectively, we raised an impressive $1,359,032. This is up 13% from 2011.
More Foundation Holiday Recap During the holiday season, Windermere offices throughout the Western U.S. worked with some outstanding organizations to provide assistance and services to low-income and homeless families. Thank you to all who helped make this season brighter for those in need in our local communities. Here is a recap of some of the Windermere Foundation activities that took place in December.
More Happy Holidays From Windermere From everyone in the Windermere family, we wish you and yours Happy Holidays!
More Happy Holidays! We hope you are enjoying the holiday season! December is always a busy time of the year, with presents to shop for, gifts to wrap, decorations to hang, and friends and family to entertain.. With Hanukkah in full swing and Christmas and New Years right around the corner, we thought we would share with you some of our favorite holiday resources from our Windermere Real Estate Pinterest page.
More It Can Happen to Anybody When the Foundation was established in 1989, our focus was homeless families. We’ve since realized that keeping families in their homes has many obvious benefits, so most of our support is now directed to programs with goals of preventing families from becoming homeless.
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More Veterans, Thank You for Your Service To our Veterans, thank you for your service and dedication. We are proud to work alongside you.
More Greater Seattle Eastside Offices Give $140,000 to Local Organizations When we work together, we truly can make a huge difference in the lives of our neighbors! Ten of our offices in the greater Seattle area team up every year for fundraising and giving. This year they exceeded everyone’s expectations, giving $140,000 to organizations and programs that benefit low-income and homeless families in their local communities.
More Community Service Day Southwest Event Recap Last Friday, Windermere offices in California, Nevada, and Arizona took some time off from selling houses to make a big difference in their communities. Over the past week, we have heard some remarkable stories about the rewards of volunteering as a part of our annual Community Service Day.
More Windermere Foundation Quarterly Report Thanks to you and the wonderful support the Windermere Foundation has received so far this year, we have raised over $885,000 – up 13% from this time last year! Funds raised will be distributed to qualifying social service organizations dedicated to serving low-income and homeless families throughout the western U.S.
More Community Service Day Southwest On Friday, October 19th, Windermere offices in Arizona, California, and Nevada will be closed for a very special reason. For the past 28 years, Windermere has dedicated the third Friday of October to our annual Community Service Day*
More Windermere Redding, Making Wishes Come True On Friday, October 5, Windermere’s Redding office will host its first annual Fashion Show and Fundraiser at the WinRiver Casino. The net proceeds raised will go to the local Make-A-Wish and Wings of Angels Foundations. Funds will be used to raise awareness about cancer and other illnesses, as well as to celebrate the strength of the area’s young survivors.
More September Perspectives: Open Houses What hasn’t changed? The time-honored tradition of Sunday open houses. What has changed is how buyers find out about open houses and search for homes.
More Windermere.com Gets More Social You may have noticed some changes here on the Windermere Blog and the Windermere Foundation Blog; the blogs are now fully integrated into the Winderemere Real Estate website!
More Windermere Kids at the Y program update The Windermere Foundation has dedicated over 1.2 million dollars to this important cause—helping hundreds of kids through our first network-wide program. This unique partnership provides the YMCA with much-needed funds, as well as support from Windermere agents, who volunteer their time to assist with the summer camps and other kids’ activities.
More Helping our kids start the school year right Summer has flown by and it is hard to believe school will be starting for most students in the next few weeks. For many of us, we have special memories associated with the start of a new school year. From seeing our friends for the first time all season, to a new fall wardrobe and all new school supplies to start the year. Unfortunately, many of the kids will not be so lucky this year.
More Summer Perspectives: Market Report Summer is finally here, and like many of you, when the weather turns nice we find ourselves smiling a little more. Our whole mood changes for the better. Maybe it’s the much-needed...
More Perspectives: Community Service Day A few weeks ago, we stopped by one of our local offices for an art auction they were hosting to raise funds for their neighborhood elementary school. As we all know, when funding...