RPL is filled with gratitude for our amazing real estate professionals who serve our clients and communities each day. It would be impossible to capture all the things our agents do to help out, but here is a look at some of the things our nine offices are doing to support the people of Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts this holiday season.
Sales Associate Cat Horn
RPL Sales Associate Cat Horn is President of the Barrington Lions Club and is overseeing several service projects, including Adopt a Family, A Night at the Theatre – The Wickhams at Barker Playhouse, Barrington Beach Tree, and Holiday cards for Meals on Wheels recipients. They also, along with the Barrington Business & Community Association, are running the "New Year's Day Dip in the Bay" to benefit TAPIN and the Lions Club Scholarship Fund.
Left to right: Sales Associates Lisa Raposa and Alicia Reynolds
Sales Associates Lisa Raposa and Alicia Reynolds are the Co-Chairs of the Barrington office’s annual Women's Resource Council Adopt-A-Family event, in which the entire office participates. Donations from the office go to the purchase of gift cards for local families. The event helps abused women attain shelter assistance and empowers them to shop for their children during the holidays.
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Left to right: Sales Associates Anna Clancy and Nancy Ryan
Sales Associates Anna Clancy and Nancy Ryan serve on the board of the Community Scholarship Fund, which aids students from Barrington wishing to pursue post-secondary education. Scholarships are granted based on financial need, scholastic ability, recommendations, community service, and extracurricular activities.
Sales Associate Morgan Lowis
With a mission to make the East Bay a hunger-free community, the East Bay Food Pantry in Bristol is a favorite cause for RPL Sales Associate Morgan Lowis. For the past two years, every week for a minimum of two hours, Morgan has organized and prepared online food orders and special orders for families in need.
She is also a "chef" for Lasagna Love – an international movement begun during the pandemic with thousands of people cooking and delivering meals to families in their communities. Morgan became involved in February of 2021 and has now made and delivered over 30 lasagnas to families all over Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
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Cumberland Broker Manager Ryan Antrop
The Cumberland office, led by Broker Manager Ryan Antrop, will work with Woonsocket Adopt a Family to adopt three families this year, collecting items to fulfill the needs of local children and families. They will also be contributing food and donations to the Northern RI Food Pantry.
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Sales Associate Monica Sye
For the past five years, Sales Associate Monica Sye has helped an elementary school and middle school in Attleboro by working with local businesses on fundraising events. The businesses then give back a portion of the proceeds raised to the school. Monica does one event for each school once a month (two events per month), performing essential tasks including planning, scheduling, creating flyers, promoting, and collecting funds.
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The Leading Group
RPL’s The Leading Group has donated a refrigerator to the teachers’ room at Community Elementary School in Cumberland.
Sales Associate Lisa Pisaturo
Sales Associate Lisa Pisaturo is helping to coordinate the East Greenwich office’s participation in the Elves for Elders program with agents fulfilling gift requests of local seniors in nursing care. Each gift bag will then be collected and brought to the Kent Washington Association of REALTORS® for distribution. (Above – Broker Associate Theres Vezeridis delivers five bags for the cause.)
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Left to right: Broker Associate Michelle Shevlin and Rhonda Marvell, Sales Associates Patricia Fontaine, Mimi Whitmarsh, and Amy Chafee
Sales Associates Patricia Fontaine, Mimi Whitmarsh, and Amy Chafee as well as Broker Associates Michelle Shevlin and Rhonda Marvell are all participating in Scholarship Little Compton’s Tree Spree.
As one of the Tree Spree’s supporting organizations, RPL’s Little Compton office will donate a decorated tree with the theme of “Home for the Holidays,” which will be auctioned to raise money for Scholarship Little Compton. This money provides deserving students with scholarships to help pay for post-secondary education.
Remember to bid on the Little Compton office’s tree on Sunday, December 4 from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Wilbur & McMahon School gym!
Broker Associate Galen McGovern
The Narragansett office supports the Jonny Cake Center in South County. The center’s mission is to work towards a community without hunger and poverty where everyone can reach their potential. To help support this worthy organization, the team, with Broker Associate Galen McGovern as point person, is coordinating a clothing and toy drive.
Sales Associate Marisa Ferris
Sales Associate Marisa Ferris will lead the Newport office in support of the city’s Dr. Martin Luther King Community Center. Founded in 1922 and renamed honoring Dr. King in 1968, the center provides essential services for at-risk individuals, families, and seniors. An independent nonprofit, the MLK Community Center fights hunger, promotes health, educates young and school-aged kids, supports families, and engages seniors. The office plans to contribute a cash donation. A QR code will be set up in early December allowing anyone to donate – and those who do will receive a raffle ticket for a gift basket. December 1 is also the ribbon cutting open house for Newport’s new office.
Left to right: Sales Associates Sabine Green, Barbara Dacey, Bethany Johnsen, Judy Croyle, Kathy Pierard, Michelle Rockwell, Dave Hackett
Left to right: Broker Manager JP Pagano, Broker Associate Joe Roch
Sales Associates Sabine Green, Barbara Dacey, Bethany Johnsen, Judy Croyle, Kathy Pierard, Michelle Rockwell, and Dave Hackett, along with Broker Associate Joe Roch and Providence Broker Manager JP Pagano worked together to coordinate both Providence offices’ participation in a food drive for the RI Food Bank, incorporating virtual donations as well.
Together, the offices raised $5,425 and donated 450lbs of food!
Sales Associate Molly Armando
Sales Associate Molly Armando is the Founder/Creator of the Padanaram Buoy Tree at Padanaram Village in South Dartmouth, now in her second year of this fun charitable endeavor. Drawing visitors from all over New England, the Buoy Tree is made up of over 600 buoys on the tree and in the surrounding area. Last year, Molly and her cause received wonderful publicity in publications such as The Standard Times and The Boston Globe.
Anyone can decorate their own buoy for consideration by the Buoy Tree Committee, who selects their 50 favorite, most creative buoys to be auctioned off, with 100% of the proceeds go to local charities. This year’s recipients are the Flying Starlings of Dartmouth, supporting better autism awareness, and Gnome Surf of Little Compton, providing surf, art, and eco therapies to children on the autism spectrum as well as down syndrome and LGBTQ youth.
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Sales Associate Kathy Santos
Providing over 100 gifts for the elderly this season, Sales Associate Kathy Santos is running the Giving Tree project at St. John the Baptist Church in Westport. Parishioners will provide gifts for residents of Sacred Heart Nursing Home in New Bedford and for the children of St Vincent's Home in Fall River, as well as donations to the Westport Food Pantry. Also, as a member of the Westport River Garden Club, Kathy has helped plant tulip bulbs under the town hall sign, ensuring bright, cheery sights and smells this spring.
Thank you again to our dedicated agents.
Have a happy and safe Thanksgiving!
