Realtors are always promoting their skills at negotiating, their professionalism, and the number of sales they have made. If you read 100 Realtor websites the similarities are obvious. The public has heard all of it before so its impact is questionable at best. So how does a Realtor stand out from the crowd? REBSEA , a non-profit trade association, is providing at least one answer to this question with the Charter Member Program.
How would you like to be known as the Realtor or business who Gives Back to their community by helping your local non-profit organizations solve such problems as homelessness, animal cruelty, and children going hungry. This is precisely what REBSEA was created for. About 70 Realtors from across the country and Canada who are actively involved in solving such problems where they live have gotten together and formed a 501(c)(6) non-profit trade association called REBSEA, the Real Estate & Business Social Enterprises Association. Our goal is to make it very worthwhile and very easy for other Realtors to do the same with the benefit of DOING MORE BUSINESS WHILE DOING A GOOD DEED. This is Real Estate Social Enterprise, and here is how it works:
National Non Profits Supported by REBSEA
REBSEA is publishing a Membership Directory, state by state, city by town, of all of the real estate agents and businesses who agree to donate a part of their commission to a non-profit organization whenever 1) a supporter of that NPO finds you in our Directory and works with you to buy or sell a property, or 2) a lead or referral comes to you after reading your profile in the REBSEA Directory and understands that you will be making a donation to a cause that either you or they support. The amount of the donation is up to the you, the member, so long as it is the same as is stated on your full page profile in the Member Directory. After all, every situation is different and unique. A comprehensive listing of local Non-Profits supported by REBSEA appears on our website, please click the link below to view the Non-Profits supported in California by REBSEA
California Non Profits Supported by REBSEA
REBSEA is looking for 1 Charter Member in each city or town where it does not yet have a member. This Realtor will receive referrals and leads as NPOs locally and across the country inform their supporters that there now exists a network of Realtors who donate to NPOs, including theirs. The Charter Membership will be given to the first qualified Realtor from each location to contact REBSEA. FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED.
There are several programs planned to spread the word and make this network grow quickly. One of the most innovative and promising is happening in N. Carolina. A PHd. Professor who teaches classes in social entrepreneurship is working with REBSEA to create a paid internship program where students interested in social enterprise or working in the non-profit sector will get classroom credit for working with REBSEA. They will be contacting and enrolling new members in every state, city, and town while learning first hand about how social enterprise works. Several universities have already expressed an interest in participating by offering this opportunity to their students.
It’s about time that real estate agents and other businesses realize that the public really wants to give their business to people and businesses who do a GOOD DEED in their community by supporting the NPOs who work so hard to meet the unmet needs that we see and hear about every day. REBSEA is making it possible for them to do GOOD DEEDS WITH BENEFITS. This is a Win-Win-Win-Win situation.
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