By Kate Jonuska
With bell ringers outside every market and charity drives in full swing, this holiday season turns the mind toward giving and helping the less fortunate. However, broker associate Courtney Gilmore of Avalar Real Estate Solutions, having dedicated herself to giving back to the community that supports her success, has devised a unique way to contribute to charitable causes year round, by making giving a part of any real estate transaction.
“As long as I’ve done this, the real estate community is close knit and so many people that I know are paying it forward in their own ways. They’re a pretty giving community,” says Gilmore, who has worked in real estate for more than 12 years. “(But) I don’t know any real estate broker that is giving back to the community straight from their commission, a concerted effort like that.”
Gilmore’s giving campaign, which began rolling this year and she hopes will only grow in 2010, comes to fruition at the closing table, where a check gets cut from her commission to one of three organizations about which she feels passionately. A client, whether buyer or seller, simply needs to state that they, too, are associated with or were referred by one of the organizations she supports.
The groups are what Gilmore calls a “tripod of causes: my college, UCCS, which was a huge part of my life; my son’s school, and contributing toward the people who provide his education; and the third one was my always my passion, sports and volleyball, which I played my whole life,” she says. In other words, she’s giving back to the three things she sees as improving her life: education, parenthood and sport. “Usually when you contribute, you contribute to what you’re passion about, and those three things really define me.”
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