Our Commitment to Community
Giving Back Is What We Do!
For Windermere Professional Partners, giving back to the communities our REALTORS® live and work in is a top priority. Throughout the years, we’ve contributed to and supported several local organizations, giving both our time and money.
Local Organizations We Are Proud To Support
Caring For Kids
Caring for Kids, an all-volunteer organization, started forty-three years ago with a little clothing bank in the back of the old Lakeview Elementary School in Lakewood, WA.
Diane Formoso was a bus driver for the school and found that most of her students were in need. That Christmas a little boy got on her bus and shared with tears in his eyes that Santa was not coming to his house because his mother had to pay the rent. Diane made sure that Santa did come to Michael’s house that year. That was when the clothing bank started in the back of the counselor’s office to help struggling families and Caring for Kids was born. Diane is the founder and executive director working on a daily basis to help kids in need. Each time a new project started it was with one story of need
Harbor Hope Center of Washington is a private, non-profit organization established to serve individuals and families experiencing homelessness, poverty, and hunger.
Our Provide-a-Home Program includes two categories of homes: Youth shelters for young men and women and host homes which can also accommodate minors.
The mentorship program focuses on helping young people experiencing homelessness develop key life skills to help them become self-sufficient and thrive. Each youth in the program receives the booklet, 90 Days to Success, and participates in weekly group meetings.
Your support of Harbor Hope Center of Washington positively impacts the lives of youth and families in Pierce and Kitsap Counties and ultimately the entire State of Washington.
Our Vision
The vision of Recovery Café Orting Valley is to provide the resources and connections for sustained recovery and improved quality of life for individuals in the Orting Valley and East Pierce community. We will provide peer support services through individual and group settings, educational classes and workshops, and a place for individuals to come together in community to share their gifts and know they are loved.
Our Core Commitments
Creating a community space that is drug and alcohol free, embracing and healing.
Nurturing structures of loving accountability called Recovery Circles.
Raising up member leaders.
Ensuring responsible stewardship.
Working to end systemic racism and socioeconomic inequality so every person can thrive
Playing sports such as soccer is no longer an activity where children can show up at a local park with a soccer ball and play with other neighborhood kids. The youth in our country are now required to join a local league, pay team dues, buy cleats, shin guards, and a uniform.
This shift away from informal neighborhood leagues towards private organized clubs means that access to competitive sports for children is limited to those with financial means. As a result, low-income families and underserved children who should have the same access to youth sports as their peers, are left looking in from the outside. The ripple effect is a lack of diversity in youth sports, as the majority of low-income and underserved children come from diverse backgrounds.
We want to level the field by removing these barriers so all children have equal access to youth sports.
