Carolina One Cares

At Carolina One Real Estate Services, we are fortunate to work in a caring and helping culture. Sometimes that's evidenced by supporting one another in times of need; sometimes it means company scholarships for college children of our agents and staff; sometimes it's raising money or packing food boxes for Thanksgiving Dinner through the Charleston Basket Brigade; and sometimes it's as simple as asking the buyer or tenant to initial the contract so that we may use the interest from their escrow funds for our Charitable Contributions. We care, support, love, and lend a hand when and where it's needed. Over the years, our individual and collective contributions have grown and we are now combining them under one umbrella, Carolina One Cares. Carolina One Cares encompasses four major initiatives:

1. Community Charitable Contributions - The interest from all our escrow accounts is supplemented with a company contribution, and distributed to local 501c3 organizations whose applications are reviewed by our Charitable Contributions Committee. The committee, comprised of representatives from our offices and associated services, decides the recipients in the 1st and 3rd quarters of each year.

Beginning September 1, 2012, sales associates will have the opportunity to contribute to the Charitable Contributions Fund from each closing

2. Community Events and Fundraisers - Every year our agents and staff are involved in major intiatives within our community. One example is the company wide participation to raise money, pack and deliver boxes of food to needy families for Thanksgiving Dinner through the Basket Brigade. Additionally, we have raised money and gathered to walk for the March of Dimes and the Komen Race for the Cure.

Going forward, we will have a committee, again comprised of representatives from each office and associated service, to promote and help organize these events each year for company wide participation.

You'll also occassionally see Carolina One represented at annual fundraising events throughout the community. As the market continues to improve we hope to increase this participation.

3. Carolina One Care Community Volunteer Week - New in the fall of 2012, we will designate one week as Carolina One Cares Community Volunteer Week. Each office, associated service, and administration will select one worthwile cause to support through volunteering time and labor and/or raising money during that week.

4. One on One - Whether it's a "Sunshine Committee" within each office to make and bring dinners to someone within our office or company who's struggling, or adopting a family at Christmas, there are numerous outpourings of love and care and help every day. These have no official name, no schedule, and no committee but come spontaneously from the heart. It's who we are and what we do.