Keller Williams Realty Boise - Red Day!

2nd Annual “RED Day” Set to Lend a Hand in Boise, ID
Keller Williams Realty Boise part of community service initiative in the US and Canada

Boise, ID Keller Williams Realty associates will be taking the day off on Friday, May 14, 2010, but it will hardly be a day of rest. Over 25,000 associates across the United States and Canada will spend their day off by giving back as part of the company’s community service initiative, RED Day.

Short for “Renew, Energize and Donate,” RED Day was created to unite Keller Williams Realty offices and associates in an international day of service. During RED Day 2009, over 25,000 Keller Williams associates participated in activities ranging from food and blood drives to cleaning up trash in public parks or doing yard work for neighbors in need or revamping gardens at nursing homes. Last year on RED Day, the company donated over 130,000 hours.

As part of the RED Day effort, Keller Williams Realty Boise has chosen to spend the day in parking lots at all six Fred Meyer stores in the Treasure Valley collecting needed supplies and essential items for the six local charities listed below. Each store will be dedicated to one charity and patrons will be asked to donate items that coordinate with the needs of that charity.

The Idaho Food Bank http://idahofoodbank.org/
WCA (Women’s and Children’s Alliance) http://wcaboise.org/
Horizon Elementary School http://www.boiseschools.org/schools/horizon/index.html
Hope House www.ahome2come2.com
Nampa Family Justice Center http://nampafamilyjusticecenter.org/
City Light Home for Women and Children http://boiserm.org/facilities-citylight.asp

“We are ready to paint Boise red! We are excited to be a part of RED Day and continue the important company tradition of giving,” said Team Leader, Carla Thompson. “Last year we did this at just one store and raised over $10,000 in goods and donations for the Family Justice Center. This year we plan to multiply that by six and benefit multiple charities. We can’t tell you what an impact it made on each of us personally-it felt so great to give back to the community we know and love.”

“Twelve new children are coming home by June 15th and anything we get will be such an incredible blessing,” said Donna Lee Velvick-Lowry of Hope House.

For more information about RED Day visit www.kw.com/redday.

The Keller Williams Realty Boise Market Center, located at 1065 S. Allante Pl. Boise, ID 83709 is a full service real estate firm with 357 sales associates. Our Nampa business center is located at 5660 East Franklin Road Suite 201, Nampa, ID 83687.

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Founded in 1983, Keller Williams Realty Inc. is the third-largest real estate franchise operation in the United States, with 668 offices and more than 76,000 associates in the United States and Canada. The company, which began franchising in 1990, has an agent-centric culture that emphasizes access to leading-edge education and promotes an economic model that rewards associates as stakeholders and partners. The company also