Serving our clients by serving the community we share
If you’ve bought or sold a home through Windermere Real Estate, you’re a part of the Windermere Foundation, and you’ve made a positive difference in the lives of your neighbors in need.
For the past 23 years, the Windermere Foundation has donated a portion of the proceeds from every home purchased or sold towards supporting low-income and homeless families in our communities. What started in 1989 as a grassroots foundation serving families in need in Washington State, has grown to encompass ten states and has raised over $22 million for programs and organizations that provide shelter, clothing, children’s programs, emergency assistance, and other services to those who need our help the most.
At our company, giving back to the community is important to us and to our agents and staff. We have raised over $1,000,000 for the Windermere Foundation for use by non-profit agencies offering housing and services to homeless and low-income families in our local area. Some of the organizations we’ve been involved with include:
- Ainsworth Elementary Students in Need
- Albertina Kerr Center
- Associated League of Columbia Pacific
- Boys & Girls Aid Society of Oregon
- Boys & Girls Club NE Portland / Make It Better
- Bradley-Angle
- Bridge Meadows
- CASA for Children
- Cannon Beach Children’s Center
- Capitol Hill School – TEACH Project
- Chapman School – Project Return
- Children’s Cancer Association
- Children’s Justice Alliance
- Christie School
- Clackamas County YWCA – Yolanda House
- Clackamas Women’s Shelter
- Clatsop CASA Program
- Clatsop Community Peer Jury
- Clatsop County Women’s Resource Center
- Community Transitional School
- Community Warehouse
- De La Salle North Catholic High School
- DePaul Youth Treatment Center
- Doernbecher Children’s Hospital
- Dress for Success
- The Dougy Center
- Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon – Patton House
- Elevate Oregon
- Enterprise Foundation/Women & Housing
- Franklin High School Food Program
- Friendly House
- Friends of the Children
- Foster Parents Association
- Girls Inc. of Northwest Oregon
- Good Neighbor Center
- Gresham Head Start
- Harrison Park School
- The Healing Circle/Victory Over Child Abuse Camp
- Holy Redeemer School
- Human Solutions
- I Have A Dream Foundation
- Inner City Steppers Track and Field
- JOIN
- Kinship House
- Kows for Kids
- Letty Ownings Center
- Lives in Transition
- Metropolitan Family Services
- Mittleman Jewish Community Center
- My Father’s House
- Neighborhood House, Inc.
- New Avenues For Youth
- NW Medical Teams – Hurricane Katrina Victims
- Oaks Park Day
- Oregon Food Bank
- Oregon Outrreach
- Oregon Rowing Unlimited
- Parkrose School District Gateway Homeless Project
- Parrott Creek Child and Family Services
- Pioneer House – Oregon Coast
- Please Take A Seat
- Portland Impact
- Portland Parks Foundation
- Providence Seaside Hospital Foundation
- The Reading Tree
- Reach Community Development
- Roosevelt High School
- Rose City Rowing / New Avenues for Youth
- Rose Haven
- Rosemary Anderson High School
- SMART
- Salvation Army West Women’s Shelter
- Seaside Heights Grade School
- Seaside High School (Scholarships)
- Self Enhancement Inc.
- Shepherd’s Door
- Sisters of the Road
- SnowCAP Community Charities
- St. Andrews Nativity School
- St. Mary’s Academy
- Street of Eames
- Sunset Parks and Recreation District
- Taste of the Nation
- United Cerebral Palsy of Oregon/SW Washington
- YMCA of Columbia Willamette
- YWCA / SafeHaven
- YWCA / Camp Westwind
