ePhilanthropy and Cause Marketing in Real Estate

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Using Gifts to Bless Others

For a large portion of the world, the idea of dental insurance or any kind of dental plan seems not worth giving any thought to. Its luxury of industrialized, wealthy countries (and the middle and the upper classes of those societies). I was reminded of this as I read about Erik Winn, a dent… Continue

Added by Howard Strang on November 16, 2009 at 6:28pm — No Comments

Real Estate Cause Marketing and Public Relations Considered - By Lance Winslow

By Lance Winslow As our real estate market becomes a buyers market more and more realtors are indeed looking for ways to promote community goodwill to increase their buyer base and appease those listings, which are not selling as fast as those customers might like. Realtors are co… Continue

Added by Lance Winslow on June 21, 2009 at 4:35am — 8 Comments

Public Relations Idea for Real Estate Title Companies - By Lance Winslow

By Lance Winslow What kinds of great things can a Real Estate Title Service do to promote community goodwill and public relations? Well what if they participated in a Neighborhood Mobile Watch Program? But you ask what does that have to do with a Real Estate Title Service? Well it… Continue

Added by Lance Winslow on May 21, 2009 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Charitable Giving in Real Estate by Lance Winslow

By Lance Winslow

Recently traveling through West Virginia on my way out West to the Plains of Texas and the Hot New Mexico Desert, I met with a financial planner at a coffee shop and we discussed many new strategies of giving away money. Perhaps you are not aware but giving a… Continue

Added by Lance Winslow on February 1, 2009 at 7:59pm — No Comments

Realtors Against Multiple Sclerosis (R.A,M.S.)

Walk MS: Inland Empire 2009 RAMS (Realtors Against MS) Help Our Team in the Fight Against MS! The number of people living with multiple sclerosis increases every hour of every day. This astonishing rate is not going to slow down, let alone stop, until we've found a cure. Research has made some incredible advances recently, but the world can still only offer disease management… Continue

Added by Nick Ondatje on January 3, 2009 at 11:44pm — No Comments

Using Twuffer & Twitter To Make A Difference

Mothers Fighting For Others is running a Twitter fund raising drive today. In 24 hours they want to raise $5000 entirely using Twitter, $10 at a time. Want to participate? Watch this video. Using Twuffer And Twitter To Change Lives. Let's see how powerful Social Media can be. Continue

Added by Jeff Turner on December 10, 2008 at 10:45am — 1 Comment

Idea Starter: HomecomingBlitz for World AIDS Day 2008

Is anyone doing anything for World AIDS Day (12/1/08), or open to a voluntary industry-wide proposal? Does anyone remember when Pastor Rick Warren's asked this question during the presidential debates? "...there are 148 million orphans worldwide, would you commit to a plan for them, as Bush did for AIDS?" Realtors alone cannot implement an emergency plan for AIDS orphans, but they can INVITE MILLIONS OF CLIENTS to make donations to existing non-profit organizations through an annual, friendly… Continue

Added by Bill Wendel on November 14, 2008 at 7:30am — 2 Comments

Add your favorite cause or charity to "Community Commission" model

Home buyers & sellers: Help coauthor fund raising letters for rebates in the pipeline by adding your favorite charity or cause to our "Community Commission," an open fund raising model other real estate "change agents… Continue

Added by Bill Wendel on January 18, 2008 at 10:48am — No Comments

Billions in savings: Will real estate consumers extend a helping hand?

It's Christmas 2007, and I am visiting extended family

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Added by Bill Wendel on December 26, 2007 at 1:56pm — No Comments

SantaCause delivering "Gifts that Give Twice" via Twitter

Fellow ChangeAgents,

Using real estate commissions to support any local charities or causes this year for Christmas? Log onto Twitter (or join if you're a newbie), and tell @SantaCause about your cause marketing campaign so he can help spread the word.

If you follow @SantaCause his Twitter elves will let you about other "gifts that give twice."

That's t… Continue

Added by Bill Wendel on December 9, 2007 at 9:21pm — No Comments

Philanthropy conference panel: "Raising Funds in Virtual Worlds"

Wish I could attend this session tomorrow at the Conference on Philanthropy being hosted in Boston. Anyone in real estate using SecondLife to raising funds? If so, please (1) share links to active or recently completed campaigns, (2) log in and share your case study, or (3) conduct seminar in person in Boston or a webinar open to real estate change agents everywhere!

Raising Funds in Virtual Worlds

Speakers: Randal Moss… Continue

Added by Bill Wendel on November 26, 2007 at 9:39pm — No Comments

Proposed "St. Joseph Statue Buyback Program" will redistribute referral rebates to charities & causes

Nearly a decade ago, the practice of burying St. Joseph statues upside to sell real estate caused me to write "Beyond Superstition: Doing Justice to the "Just Man." When an article on the misguided practice became the most forwarded story in the Wall Street Journal last week, I decided to turn my "holy anger" into fund raising idea:
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Added by Bill Wendel on November 5, 2007 at 8:24pm — No Comments

Clinton: Fundraising by internet activists can exceed billionaires

Clinton book interview on NPR:

Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World
http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=3
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Added by Bill Wendel on September 18, 2007 at 2:11pm — No Comments

Online Fundraising Tactics: What Works?

Looking forward to reading this article from the Philanthropy News Center, and welcome your comments, too:

Online Fundraising Tactics: What Works?
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/techsoup/ts_item.jhtml?id=188800002
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Added by Bill Wendel on September 18, 2007 at 2:09pm — No Comments

More than passion, COMPASSION -- what do you DESIRE?

Got to love it -- Bono is singing "DESIRE" as the last session on "New Kids on the Block" wraps up at here at Real Estate Connect San Francisco 2007, and Hugh MacLeod's question -- "Do you want to change the world?" -- is still echoing in my mind. The audience's enthusiastic "YES!" was more passionate than I would have ever imagined! Does that mean that every real estate innovator is a "change agent" and that there might be widespread inter

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Added by Bill Wendel on August 5, 2007 at 9:47pm — No Comments