This previous yr marked thrilling development for The Company, with growth to Europe and the addition of 24 new workplaces. And because the enterprise grows, so does our charitable influence. Teamwork and philanthropy have all the time been on the core of our mission. Collaborating with Giveback Properties, our official charity accomplice, we organized dozens of occasions to create lasting, constructive change within the communities the place we function. Within the spirit of the end-of-year wrap-up lists, right here’s a glance again on a number of the methods our big-hearted crew gave again and made 2022 our most profitable and beneficiant yr but.
Construct Days & ReStore Days
Nobody understands the worth of residence possession greater than our crew of actual property professionals. And nobody is aware of a group like the true property professionals residing and serving in it. That’s why we take part in common Construct Days with Giveback Properties, setting up and ending properties for households in want, in addition to volunteering with native Habitat for Humanity ReStores.
NorCal
Credit score: Thomas Kuoh
In April, brokers from all our Northern California workplaces got here collectively for his or her second annual Construct Day in Oakland, the place they labored on a four-bedroom, three-bath residence. By no means afraid to get their palms soiled, the enthusiastic volunteers labored collectively to put in a brand new roof and clear up particles from the constructing web site.
Park Metropolis
The Company Park Metropolis’s volunteer group returned to the Habitat for Humanity group the place they first broke floor to see how the undertaking they began got here to completion — simply earlier than the keys had been handed to a working single mom caring for her son. They then headed to the Habitat for Humanity ReStore to prepare donations and have a tendency to the services.
Aspen
In Aspen, volunteers additionally spent a day at their native Habitat for Humanity ReStore. Collectively they restaged the ground and managed stock. By the point they had been completed, the warehouse seemed model new.
Denver
Over the summer season, The Company Denver crew kicked off their first-ever Construct Day and The Company’s twenty third. Even triple-digit temperatures couldn’t get in the best way of the 15-person crew’s efforts to border a house that may assist meet the rising demand for reasonably priced housing within the Denver Metro space.
Scottsdale
No strangers to working in warmth, crew members from The Company Scottsdale took care of placing all of the ending touches on a residence for a single mom and paralegal assistant with two daughters. Giveback Properties Co-Founder Caroline Pinal traveled from California to assist ensure the house was solely move-in prepared.
Toronto
In lieu of a grand opening occasion, The Company Toronto’s Managing Companions Paige and Peter Torkan, donated funds to Giveback Properties and invited brokers from the newly launched Canada workplaces to construct a number of stacked townhomes at Toronto’s new Reunion Crossing group for The Company’s first worldwide Construct Day.
North Shore
Greater than a dozen crew members from The Company Lengthy Island bought collectively in November to hold insulation and sheetrock, paint siding and set up a roof on a house for a neighborhood healthcare employee and her daughter. “Our camaraderie within the workplace interprets superbly to our work on the home,” remarked Managing Companion Don Mastroianni.
Should you’d prefer to assist future Construct Days, store for the trigger at our retailer. All earnings go towards The Company Provides and Giveback Properties.
Fundraisers & Occasions
Whether or not grinding on behalf of shoppers, fundraising for Giveback Properties or coming collectively to wash up our communities, our groups know find out how to have an excellent time whereas working for an excellent trigger.
World Barry’s Bootcamp Exercise
In March, brokers and staff from California to Calgary got here out to make an influence with some high-impact exercises hosted by Barry’s Bootcamp. A complete of seven fundraising occasions bought individuals shifting to boost cash for Giveback Properties.
Boston Bartending Occasion
March was a busy month for fundraising. Joined by Founder and CEO Mauricio Umansky, a few of The Company’s most celebrated names alongside the East Coast got here out for a particular Boston bartending occasion, the place they combined drinks to drum up monetary assist for Giveback Properties and future Construct Days led by volunteers of the Boston workplace.
100 Miles in Might
A gaggle of 65 brokers, shoppers, and group members went the space for our second annual springtime fundraising occasion to learn Giveback Properties. The primary-place winner accomplished their steps in simply six days!
Annual World Clear Up
In August we kicked off our annual World Clear-Up Day, the place our workplaces and brokers be a part of forces to look after our communities’ coastlines, parks, lakes and extra. World wide, we eliminated 1,136 kilos of trash, with volunteers placing in a collective 543 hours throughout 21 places, together with Los Angeles, New York Metropolis, Montréal and San Miguel de Allende.
As a lot as we’ve achieved this yr, there’s all the time extra to be completed. If you need to donate to The Company’s international philanthropic efforts with Giveback Properties, you are able to do so right here. Thanks in your assist. We will’t wait to see what we will all do collectively in 2023.