Today you may notice your local Windermere office is closed, or it may take a little bit longer for your Windermere agent to get back to you. But we promise it’s for a very good reason: today is Windermere Community Service Day. Since 1984, our agents have taken one day a year off to dig into hands-on community service projects throughout the Western U.S. On this day, you’ll find our teams doing a variety of projects, such as cleaning, landscaping, and painting at local senior citizens centers, facilities for homeless children and adults, public parks and schools, low-income housing, and emergency shelters, among others.
Follow what our offices are doing on Community Service Day on Facebook! You can also vote for your favorite Community Service Day photos in our #WindermereCSD2016 photo contest. The photo with the most votes will receive a $1,000 donation for the Windermere Foundation charity of their choice. Go here to vote. We encourage you to “like” our Facebook page, follow the Community Service Day projects, and vote for your favorite Community Service Day photos!
A big thank you to all of our Windermere Real Estate offices for the amazing work they do. Community Service Day is an important part of what makes Windermere the place it is, and we appreciate everything they do to make our communities a little better.
Community Service Day Projects:
Office
Organization
Project
California
Carlsbad
San Diego Ronald McDonald House
Ice Cream Social for patients & families
Diablo Realty
B Walker Ranch
Building garden boxes, planting olive trees, conditioning the soil, creating signage on the property, painting the alpaca barn, and caring for the alpacas.
El Sobrante, Brentwood and Diablo
B Walker Ranch
Help set up new location grounds for incoming campers
Morgan Hill
Morgan Hill Senior Center
Building maintenance, administrative support and lunch with seniors.
Walnut Creek
Contra Costa & Solano Food Bank
Collecting and sorting food for the local food bank
Colorado
Fort Collins
The Murphy Center
Sharing donuts, muffins and coffee with homeless community members and assisting with building maintenance; cleaning windows, organizing gear and making bags for the Street Outreach Program.
Hawaii
Kailua-Kona
Supporting local neighbor with home projects
Managing yard maintenance and other home projects for local single mom with stage 4 breast cancer
Montana
Bozeman
Springmeadows Assisted Living
Throwing a beach party for the elderly residents
Helena
Lewis & Clark Humane Society
General maintenance
Oregon
Bend
Healing Reins, Bend, Oregon
Working on the arenas and grounds of Healing Reins. Painting, pulling weeds and organizing tack rooms etc.
Bridgeport/Charbonneau
Community Warehouse
Landscaping and additional maintenance work
Cannon Beach
Gearhart Kids- local children’s center
Installing a mud kitchen, burying tires, building boxes for gardening - and what ever else they need
Corvallis/Albany
Benton County Habitat for Humanity
Working on construction (framing and installing sub-floor) of a home for Habitat for Humanity.
Eugene
Food for Lane County Grassroots Garden
Harvest and clean up the entire garden with over 75 volunteers
Gearhart
Gearhart Kids- local children’s center
Installing a mud kitchen, burying tires, building boxes for gardening - and what ever else they need
Grants Pass & Rogue River
Hearts with a Mission, Josephine County
Outside work: Cleaning up property which includes knocking down long grass and weeds and cleaning up.
Inside work: Cleaning furniture and facility, as directed by program director.
Hillsboro/Sunset Corridor
The Pantry
Pressure washing the delivery truck, washing out food crates, cleaning aisle shelves, painting the waiting room, and cleaning freezer shelves
Hood River & Bingen
Local Food Bank
Organize & execute a food drive to help local families
Kelso/Longview
Salvation Army and North Lake Elementary
Lake Oswego- Stellar
Tualatin School House Pantry
Working at a local Food Bank, helping prep food and dry goods for transport
Lake Oswego- West
Oregon Food Bank
Sorting dried goods for redistribution at the Oregon Food Bank in Beaverton.
Lane County
Lane County Food Bank
Volunteering at Food for Lane County's Grassroots Garden
Medford, Eagle Point, Jacksonville & Ashland
Access Food Bank
Collecting bags of food donations
Mill Plains
Fruit Valley Foundation Food Bank & Local Meals on Wheels
Month-long food collection & serving local members of the community through the meals on wheels program
Portland Heights
Project Lemonade
Merchandising a store front that serves foster youth for back to school clothing
Portland- Hollywood
Oregon Humane Society
All agents and employees in our office have donated money and pet supplies for the Oregon Humane Society
Portland- Lloyd Tower
Friends of the Children
Setting up for Fundraising event
Portland- Moreland
Human Solutions
Groundskeeping
Portland- North
Astor Elementary School
Cleaning up the school grounds, weeding, laying bark dust, trimming trees and plants
Portland- NW Johnson
White Shield Garden
Property maintenance & organization
Portland- Raleigh Hills
Hopewell House
Weeding and pruning beds, planting flowers and improving the appearance of the pathways, grounds and fountain for hospice residents, their families and visitors to enjoy.
Redmond
Bright Side Animal Center
Working at the Thrift Shop that supports Brightside Animal Center
Salem
City of Salem Parks
Working at Riverfont Park. Prepping and painting decorative railing and tending to flowerbeds.
Sandy
Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) Adopt A Road program
Collect litter along highway 26, a three-mile strip of roadway in Sandy, Oregon.
Seal Rock
Seashore Family Literacy Center
Improving and maintaining the JOY GARDEN at the Seashore Family Literacy Center
St. Helens/Scappoose
Columbia River food bank
Fundraise and collect food and other supplies for the local food bank
Stevenson
City-wide downtown cleanup
The Dalles & Property Management- Gorge
The Dalles Mainstreet
Downtown core clean up
Vancouver Metro
Fruit Valley Foundation Food Bank & Local Meals on Wheels
Serving meals for Meals on Wheels at 4 of their locations in Clark County & doing a month-long food drive to benefit the Fruit Valley Foundation
West Linn
West Linn Adult Community Center
Helping with landscaping, cleaning and other projects at the West Linn Adult Community Center
Utah
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake Somali Refugee Community
Laying sod, repairing fences, building a play ground and some back yard furniture, planting a garden and more to help transform a local home and community meeting space for the Salt Lake City Somali Refugee Community
Washington
Aberdeen
The Driftwood Playhouse
Cleaning and organizing the costume storage rooms at local live theatre venue
Alderwood
Red Barn Community Farm
Preparing garden beds for summer crops
Ballard
Saint Luke's Church
Revamp kitchen & dining area to serve larger homeless population and beautify outdoor areas
Bellevue
Kelsey Creek Farm
Gardening, weeding, yard cleanup, and painting.
Bellevue Commons
Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center
Painting the caretaker’s home (the whole house!), taking care of rain garden maintenance, weed whacking, and washing windows. The brokers will also be washing the horses’ paddock fencing and arena fencing as well as making repairs.
Bellevue-South
Mountains to Sound Greenway
Restoration of the Sunset Beach area at Lake Sammamish State Park
Bellevue-West
Evergreen Court
Removing ivy and blackberries, washing windows, power washing, and painting
Capitol Hill
City of Seattle
Cleaning up trash on 9 different busy streets, including two on and off ramps in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, and picking up trash and cleaning up the sidewalks
Coupeville
National Park Service/ Prairie Wayside Park
Cleaning graffiti, painting, pruning hedges, scraping moss, clearing paths, picking up trash and beautifying this little gem of a park
Edmonds
Edmonds City Park
At the Edmonds Marsh removing noxious Japanese knot weed
Green Lake
Local Neighbor Support
Help local families with needed maintenance projects
Greenwood
Phinney Center
Working with elderly families on yard projects
Issaquah
YMCA's Camp Terry
Clearing trails, depositing wood chips into play areas, staining new bleachers and picnic tables around the stage and fire pit, and building a large platform for camp-goers to play games.
Kirkland- Central
McAuliffe Park
Local park cleanup
Kirkland- Northeast
Attain Housing
Half the group will be painting and doing yard work while the other half cleans and organizes their office
Kirkland- Yarrow Bay
Heritage Park
Landscape cleanup, view restoration, path cleaning, and weed removal.
Lori Gill & Associates/ Property Management offices
Camp Korey
Madison Park
Washington Park Arboretum
Clean up
Magnolia
Community support event
Hosting a shredding, eCycle and Goodwill donation event
Marysville
Marysville Historical Society Museum
Landscaping grounds of new museum
Mercer Island
Eastside Baby Corner
Cleaning, sorting and prepping the baby items to be delivered that day to Eastside Baby Corner
Mount Baker
Wellspring Family Services
Helping out in the Baby Boutique
Mukilteo
Mukilteo Food Bank
Collect food for local food bank. Last year they collected more than 2,000 pounds of food.
Oak Harbor
Habitat for Humanity
Aiding in the construction of a new duplex, including framing the ground floor, landscaping and community garden support
Professional Partners (Tacoma)
Northwest Furniture Bank
Helping out in their warehouse and loading and unloading trucks full of furniture and household goods
Professional Partners (Tacoma)
Liberty Road Foundation
Helping them organize their fundraising retail store
Professional Partners (Tacoma)
Purdy-area resident
Helping an elderly resident without the resources to move personal belongings to new residence
Professional Partners (Tacoma)
Key Peninsula area
Helping an elderly couple with necessary yard and home maintenance
Property Management Kent
Northwest Harvest Kent Warehouse
Helping with food sorting for area food bank
Pullman/Moscow
Whitman County Human Society
Pulling weeds, mowing lawns, doing deep clean outs, scrubbing walls and much more
Queen Anne
Food drive and making individual bag lunches for the Queen Anne Helpline
Dropping bags at homes May 30 and 31; picking up and bagging lunches on June 3.
Covering the surrounding Queen Anne area of the office.
Redmond
YWCA Family Village
Planting flowers, painting stripes in the parking lot, power washing the porches, labeling supplies, and more.
Renton
Emergency Feeding Program
Cleaning up the warehouse and helping them organize the bags of food for delivery to their distribution partners.
Sand Point
NEST (North East Seattle Together)
Helping six elderly families/individuals with home maintenance, including window washing, weeding, trimming bushes, removing moss and other home maintenance projects
Seattle Property Management
Green Seattle Partnership & Weekday Workers
Forest Restoration at Carkeek Park
Seattle Services & Marketing
Magnuson YMCA
Indoor and outdoor maintenance programs in preparation for summer programs
Sequim East & Sunland
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula
Car wash fundraiser
Shoreline
North Helpline
Sorting and boxing food for the food bank
Spokane
Annual Windermere Marathon/ Foundation Fundraiser
Vashon Island
Granny's Attic
Clean and organize the local thrift shop. This store donates profits to local area nonprofits.
Wall Street
Mary’s Place
At the Travel Lodge near Seattle Center that was donated by Amazon.
Painting, cleaning, landscaping and getting rooms ready for new families.
Wedgwood
Wedgwood Community Council
Mowing, edging, weeding and hauling away debris of public space
West Seattle
Single family residence
Painting, planting and landscaping
Woodinville
Park at Bothell Landing
General maintenance and cleanup of the parks next to the Sammamish River to prep the Landing for summer crowds