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First Choice Realty Cares: Our agents give back to the communities they serve!
Giving back to the community is one of our goals. Annually we give over 1% of our gross revenue to charity.  Some of the organizations we contribute to are: Wounded Warrior (www.woundedwarriorproject.org) and Helping Abused Women and Children, H.A.W.C. (www.annettesclimb.org), Fisher House Boston Dana Farber Cancer Institute, http://www.dana-farber.org/how/gifts
and ALS to name a few.

Annettes Climb
www.annettesclimb.org
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"The purpose of Annette's Climb, an all-volunteer non-profit organization, is to create social change by action against personal and societal patterns of violence and oppression of women and their children. Annette's Climb supports services provided by HAWC (Healing Abuse Working for Change) www.hawcdv.org, (they've changed their name and their webiste address) to women in crisis residing in 23 cities and towns on Massachusetts' North Shore in order that they may make informed, independant decisions about their futures and access alternatives to living in a violent situation. In addition, Annette's Climb has partnered with the Women In Transition Program (WIT) at North Shore Community College. The WIT Program is a strenght-based, supportive learning community of mature students dedicated to easing the transition to college, career, and life changing possibilities.

"On May 1st, 2010, friends and family of survivors of domestic violence will join together for the eight annual Annette's Climb in a true team effort to rasie awareness and help break the cycle of domestic violence all while raising much needed funds to support efforts to change patterns of violence in our society."

Wounded Warrior Project
http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org
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Our Mission
The mission of the Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) is to raise public awareness and enlist the public's aid for the needs of severely injured service men and women, to help severely injured service members to aid and assist each other, and to provide unique, direct programs and services to meet their needs. WWP accomplishes this mission by providing programs and services to severely injured active service members and their families during the critical time between their initial rehabilitation while on active duty and their eventual transition to civilian life. WWP employs staff with over 55 years of combined experience in providing direct services to active duty service members and disabled veterans, including benefits counseling, representation before the department of veterans affairs, bringing public attention to the needs of wounded service members, and advocating for regulatory and statutory changes beneficial to veterans and active duty service members. There are many military service organizations that provide services to active duty service members and their families, and many veteran service organizations that provide services and opportunities for fraternal interaction to veterans upon their discharge from service. However, few organizations devote their resources to assisting the severely wounded during this critical period. WWP fills this vital, unmet need, bringing comfort, support, and aid to severely injured service members and their families during this challenging time in their lives.

Fisher House Boston
http://www.fisherhouseboston.org
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Fisher House, Boston, Help Support Our Military in their time of need

"The first two Fisher Houses designed and built by the Fishers opened in 1991 - at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland and Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC. A year later, the Air Force received its first Fisher House - at Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. By 1993, the network had expanded to 12 houses, and Fisher House Foundation, Inc. was established as the national not-for-profit organization to coordinate private support and encourage public support for the program. In 1994, the program expanded to the Department of Veterans Affairs, with the first Fisher House for Veterans opening in Albany, New York.

From 1990 through 1998, all Fisher Houses were given as gifts to the U.S. Government by the Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher Armed Services Foundation. In 1999, the Fisher House Foundation assumed the mission of building new Fisher Houses. Fisher House Founder and Chairman Zachary Fisher passed away on June 4, 1999. At the time of Zachary's death, there were 26 Fisher Houses. In mid 2000, the program began its 11th year, and had provided more than one million days of lodging to eligible families. In 2001, the first Fisher House built in partnership with another organization, the Veterans Guest House, opened at the Cincinnati VA Medical Center, and the Fisher House at Landstuhl, Germany, the first built outside the U.S., was formally dedicated.

By year's end, 2003, there were 32 Fisher Houses located at 17 different military medical centers and six VA medical centers. The number of guest families staying at the houses each year had risen to more than 8,500, and the estimate of dollars saved by these families over the cost of commercial lodging in the same area was $10 million a year. More than 110,000 families were guests at a Fisher House since the program began. The phenomenal growth of Fisher Houses and the unprecedented support received is testimony to the foresight of founders Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher and the commitment of Zachary's family to continue his legacy. The houses truly are "dedicated to our greatest national treasure... our military service men and women and their loved ones."

Metro Lacrosse
http://www.metrolacrosse.com/events/cannons/

Metro lacrosse is a not-for-profit organization that provides sports-based character education programs to approximately 500 youth in eight Boston communities -- Allston/Brighton, Chelsea, East Boston, East Cambridge, Dorchester, Hyde Park, Mattapan and Roxbury.




Jewish Family Children Services (JFCS) 140 year old company
http://www.jfcsboston.org/
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Our Mission:
Jewish Family & Children's Service of Greater Boston is here to help individuals and families of all ages through human service and health care programs that reflect Jewish values of social responsibility and concern for all members of the community.

Introduction
For over 140 years, Jewish Family & Children's Service has played an important role in changing people's lives, no matter what their religious or cultural background. We help 30,000 people every year by providing the highest quality of care through services for seniors, programs for children and families, and other services specific to the needs of our community. Our wide range of services assists people of all ages and all incomes in over 80 Greater Boston communities.

Dana Farber Cancer Institute
http://www.dana-farber.org
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Mission and Values
The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is to provide expert, compassionate care to children and adults with cancer while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. As an affiliate of Harvard Medical School and a Comprehensive Cancer Center designated by the National Cancer Institute, the Institute also provides training for new generations of physicians and scientists, designs programs that promote public health particularly among high-risk and underserved populations, and disseminates innovative patient therapies and scientific discoveries to our target community across the United States and throughout the world.


ALS
http://www.alsa.org/als/default.cfm?CFID=515993&CFTOKEN=60059881
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Just what is ALS? Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a motor neuron disease, first described in 1869 by the noted French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot. Although the cause of ALS is not completely understood, the last decade has brought a wealth of new scientific understanding about the disease that provides hope for the future.

Lou Gehrig first brought national and international attention to the disease in 1939 when he abruptly retired from baseball after being diagnosed with ALS. Most commonly, the disease strikes people between the ages of 40 and 70, and as many as 30,000 Americans have the disease at any given time. ALS has cut short the lives of other such notable and courageous individuals as Hall of Fame pitcher Jim "Catfish" Hunter, Senator Jacob Javits, actors Michael Zaslow and David Niven, creator of Sesame Street Jon Stone, boxing champion Ezzard Charles, NBA Hall of Fame basketball player George Yardley, pro football player Glenn Montgomery, golfer Jeff Julian, golf caddie Bruce Edwards, musician Lead Belly (Huddie Ledbetter) and photographer Eddie Adams.

ALS is a neurodegenerative disease that usually attacks both upper and lower motor neurons and causes degeneration throughout the brain and spinal cord. A common first symptom is a painless weakness in a hand, foot, arm or leg, which occurs in more than half of all cases. Other early symptoms include speech swallowing or walking difficulty.

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