The United Way of Washtenaw projects that they will be short in reaching their campaign goal of $5,750,000.
Starting at 6:00am on Wednesday, February 29th, tune in to W4 Country (102.9 FM), 107.1 FM or Sports Talk 1050 AM. Cumulus Radio is hosting a Radiothon to raise an additional $100,000 to help the United Way of Washtenaw reach their campaign goal. Reinhart is proud to be a Radiothon sponsor!
In addition, AnnArbor.com is partnering with the United Way of Washtenaw to provide several gift incentives to encourage you to donate during the Radiothon. At the top of the each hour, from 7:00am to 5:00pm, AnnArbor.com will announce the gift incentive via their Twitter and Facebook accounts. Click here for additional information.
Reinhart hosted our 4th Annual American Red Cross Blood Drive on Friday, February 10th, surpassing our goal of donors, including 5 first time donors.
Over the past four years, Reinhart has produced 131 pints of blood, which could benefit as many as 400 patients. With the current need for blood in Washtenaw County, the partnership between the Charles Reinhart Company, Realtors and the Washtenaw County Chapter of the American Red Cross to organize a blood drive has proved to be vital for our community.
Thank you to Ed Ridha for organizing the blood drive, Darby Kolano for coordinating the juice and baked good donations and to Pam Gurica for keeping records during the blood drive. A huge thank you goes out to all of the blood donors, baked goods and juice donors, and all of the on site volunteers.
If you have any questions or would like to give blood, please contact the Washtenaw County Chapter of the American Red Cross at (734) 971-5300.
> To see more photos, visit the Charles Reinhart Company Facebook Page.
Reinhart is hosting our 4th annual American Red Cross Blood Drive on Friday, February 10th from 9:00am to 3:00pm at our Ann Arbor East Office – 2452 East Stadium Boulevard.
Over the past three years, we have produced 99 pints of blood, which is equivalent to saving approximately 300 lives. With the current need for blood in Washtenaw County, the partnership between the Charles Reinhart Company, Realtors and the Washtenaw County Chapter of the American Red Cross to organize a blood drive is vital for our community.
To make an appointment online to donate blood go to www.redcross.org and enter the sponsor code: CRCR. If you are interested in donating blood, we encourage you to schedule an appointment so you get your preferred time.
If you have any questions, please contact Ed Ridha at (734) 669-5920 or eridha@reinhartrealtors.com.
The Empty Bowls Project is back for the 2nd consecutive year. On Thursday, February 2nd Saline High School is hosting Empty Bowls from 5:30pm to 7:30pm.
Empty Bowls is an international project to fight hunger. A simple meal of soup and bread, prepared by the Saline Culinary Arts Program, is served in ceramic bowls, created by Saline students in 3rd thru 12th grade. Guests are asked to keep their bowl after their meal as a reminder that there are empty bowls across the world.
Tickets to Saline’s Empty Bowls event are $12 for individuals and $40 for a family. Proceeds from Empty Bowls will be donated to Food Gatherers, a nonprofit working to alleviate hunger and eliminate its causes in Washtenaw County. Last year, Saline Area Schools donated nearly $3,000 to Food Gatherers.
For more information about the Empty Bowls Project, or to purchase your tickets, visit their website.
Reinhart is a proud supporter of The Education Project for Homeless Youth, a project of the Washtenaw Intermediate School District that works to ensure students of homelessness and temporary living situations enroll, attend and succeed in school.
More than 800 children and youth are living without stable housing in homeless shelters, motels, cars and temporarily with friends and family. Some families have lost everything in a fire, others were forced to abruptly leave to flee from a dangerous situation. Others simply don’t have the money for housing and food, much less clothing. Whatever the reason, The Education Project provides support.
The Education Project is organizing Sock Wars. Participants are asked to collect new packages of socks and underwear to donate to students in homeless situations. Donations can be dropped off at the Washtenaw Intermediate School District – 1819 South Wagner Road – in Saline, Michigan.
Participants have the chance of winning fabulous prizes including a Domino’s pizza party, a Zingermans birthday cake and homemade cupcakes and treats from the Ypsilanti Food Co-op.
For more information about The Education Project or Sock Wars, visit their Facebook page
Reinhart’s 16th Annual Coat Drive ran through the end of December, collecting new and gently used winter coats at all of the Reinhart sales offices as well as all Sunday Open Houses. Together with the help of Reinhart agents, area dry cleaners, and the overwhelming support of the community, we were able to donate a record breaking 1,552 winter coats to more than 20 local agencies.
Capitol Cleaners, Chelsea Cleaners, Forbes Cleaners and Gold Bond Cleaners generously donated their services to professionally clean the coats before they were distributed to local agencies.
Captains of the 16th Annual Coat Drive included:
- Cathy Alfaro
- Nadie Alpern
- Kris Burgess
- Laurie Buys
- Todd Lands
- Susan Pollock
- Tracey Roy
- Susan Schmunk
- Martha Smith
- Rick Taylor
- Greg Uihlein
- Maria Wade
Reinhart has collected more than 15,500 winter coats throughout the 16 years of the Coat Drive, all of which have been donated to local agencies, right here in our community.
Reinhart has extended the 16th Annual Coat Drive into December to help us reach our goal of collecting more than 1,500 adult and children’s coats.
We are collecting new and gently used winter coats at all of the Charles Reinhart Sales Offices as well as all Sunday Open Houses.
Capitol Cleaners, Chelsea Cleaners, Gold Bond Cleaners and Forbes Cleaners have graciously donated their services to professionally clean the coats before they are donated to more than 20 local agencies.
Over our 15-year history, Reinhart has collected more than 14,500 coats, all of which have been donated to agencies in our community. The need for winter coats, especially for children, continues to be great. The 16th Annual Coat Drive hopes to help fill that need in our community as the weather begins to get colder.
For more information about the 16th Annual Coat Drive, please contact Megan Crosbie, Marketing Coordinator at (734) 669-5906 or mcrosbie@reinhartrealtors.com.
Reinhart is proud to play a role in the fight against hunger in the greater Ann Arbor area and Washtenaw County. The Charles Reinhart Company held a food drive today at our December All Company Meeting. Agents and staff were asked to bring donations of non-perishable food items, such as: rice, dry beans, cereal, granola bars and soup.
Our generous agents and staff donated 1,188 lbs of food in addition to $50 to Ann Arbor’s Food Gatherers. According to Food Gatherers, our donation will be able to provide over 1,300 meals to families throughout the greater Ann Arbor area.
Reinhart has partnered with Legacy Land Conservancy and Chelsea Center for the Arts to celebrate the achievement of land conservancy and inspire future conservation efforts through art. Selected artists were commissioned to create works about specific local, private and public lands preserved through the conservancy.
Artwork by Nancy McKay
Please join us on Friday, December 2nd at the Chelsea Center for the Arts from 6:00pm to 8:00pm for STAND in the Place Where You Live, a public Artist Reception. Each work of art will be for sale and 30% of all proceeds will be donated to the Chelsea Center for the Arts and Legacy Land Conservancy. Enjoy the beautiful artwork, delicious appetizers and refreshments provided by Sandhill Crane Vineyard and Wolverine State Brewing Company. The STAND in the Place Where You Live Artist Reception is free and open to the public.
For more information contact Lisa Baylis Gonzalez at (734) 433.2787.
Reinhart’s South Office – 500 East Eisenhower Parkway, Suite 200 – is hosting an Art & Craft Fair on Friday, November 18 from 10:00am to 4:00pm.
Proceeds from the Art & Craft Fair will go to the Pat Williams Memorial Fund, a Fund established to care for and support Pat and her family during her terminal illness. “The Fund” has also provided meals and good cheer to south office agents who have found themselves in the hospital, sick, injured or caring for a relative.
The Fund has previously donated to the Caring Bridge Website. The agents of the Reinhart Office have chosen Ele’s Place, a healing center for grieving children, as the recipient of charitable contributions from The Fund in 2012.
The Reinhart South Office Art & Craft Fair will feature glass work; fine art paints; note cards; herbs and spices; jewelry and hair accessories; water colors; crochet pieces; Christmas ornaments and much more. In addition, there will also be a raffle for a Coach purse.
Artwork Copyright Stacey Burmeister 2011
Get a jump-start on your holiday shopping on Friday and support a great cause.
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