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Children’s Homes of Iredell County gets grant from Local Realtor Association

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Housing Opportunity Foundation awards $2,500 to

Children’s Homes of Iredell County

Realtors® continue to make a difference through third-annual Community Grants Program

Charlotte, N.C. – The Housing Opportunity Foundation awarded Children’s Homes of Iredell County $2,500 through its annual Community Grants Program.  The foundation serves as the charitable arm of the Charlotte Regional Realtor® Association and is dedicated to making a difference in the community by creating housing opportunities, promoting homeownership, and positioning and educating Realtors® as leaders.

The Community Grants Program, now in its third year, supports area organizations that address unmet housing needs in Mecklenburgand Iredell counties.  The Realtor®-directed and funded program awards a total of $10,000 annually to area agencies, and has awarded $30,000 over the past three years to 14 nonprofits.

Children’s Homes of Iredell County was awarded $2,500 to provide educational training materials, college application funds, and transportation funds for employment and college visits to the young adults in the Children’s Homes’ Transitional Living Program.  This program houses foster children ages 17-21 who have been in the care of the Iredell County Department of Social Services.  The skills and resources that these young adults receive through this program help them to become more independent and self-sufficient as they age out of the foster care system.  This funding will allow them to gain the skills necessary to pursue employment and/or advanced education, and will prepare them to be productive adults. Realtor® and volunteer Sonya Leonard provided a recommendation for Children’s Homes of Iredell County to receive funding.

“Realtors® recognize the vital role that agencies like Children’s Homes of Iredell County play in meeting the very basic needs of stability and shelter for children who have been separated from their families,” said association/Carolina Multiple Listings Services, Inc. (CMLS) President Laurie Knudsen.  “We are thrilled to be able to assist this organization that works to provide homelike environments for those who are the most vulnerable in our community.”

For more information about the Housing Opportunity Foundation, the association or CMLS, visit www.CarolinaHome.com.

 

The Charlotte Regional Realtor® Association is a trade association that provides its more than  6,000 Realtor® members with the resources and services they need to conduct ethical, professional, successful and profitable businesses. The association is dedicated to being the region’s primary resource for residential real estate information. The association operates the Carolina Multiple Listing Services, Inc. (CMLS), which has approximately 7,000 Subscribers and is the private cooperative Realtors® use for access to tens of thousands of residential listings in a 10-county service area, including the high-growth Charlotte area and outside this service area.

The Housing Opportunity Foundation is the charitable arm of the Charlotte Regional Realtor® Association and is dedicated to funding, education, advocacy and leadership programs that are focused on fair and affordable housing and workforce-housing initiatives. The foundation serves to position and educate Realtors® as leaders, promote homeownership and provide funding to create housing opportunities.

*Pictured from left to right: (Children’s Homes of Iredell County)

Laurie Knudsen, 2011 association/CMLS president; Joan Goode, Realtor® and chair of the Housing Opportunity Foundation Committee; Brenda Speece, executive director of Children’s Homes of Iredell County; Sonya Leonard, Realtor®; Anne Marie Howard, association/CMLS CEO

 

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