Realtor® Good Neighbor Awards Winners Volunteer to Make a Difference in the Lives of Others:

Chicago, October 26, 2006: Real estate professionals in every corner of the nation dedicate countless volunteer hours to help others in their community. Five outstanding examples of these selfless people have been named winners for the 2006 Good Neighbor Awards by the National Association of Realtors®.

REALTOR® Magazine’s Good Neighbor Awards, in its seventh year, recognizes Realtors who are shining examples of the power of one person to improve the quality of life for others. There were more than 300 entries -- an all-time high.

The 2006 winners of REALTOR® Magazine’s Good Neighbor Awards are Ernest “Chuck” Ayala, Ayala Real Estate, San Francisco, who founded Centro Latino de San Francisco, a community center that serves 2,000 low-income seniors; Rob Cronin, Coldwell Banker, Conklin & Co., Hailey, Idaho, who is the driving force for the American Cancer Society’s Camp Rainbow Gold and has raised more than $1.4 million; Sharon Friend, Las Vegas Realty, Las Vegas, who as president of The Children’s Service Guild helps children in the family court system with emergency needs not covered by government funding; Lolita Junk, Diversified Real Estate Services/GMAC, Galesburg, Ill., who founded Knox County Teen Court, which has helped 1,500 nonviolent juvenile offenders; and David Sonenberg, The Sonenberg Co., Roswell, Ga., who for 23 years has been president of North Fulton Community Charities, which provides emergency assistance to more than 11,000 people a year.

Profiles of each of the Good Neighbor Awards winners and their programs will be featured in the November issue of REALTOR® Magazine and at www.realtor.org/realtormag.

Each of the five winners will receive a $10,000 grant for their charity; up from $7,500 in 2005, the grant is the highest ever awarded. Winners will also receive a crystal trophy and the right to use the Good Neighbor Awards logo on their Web site and in promotional materials. In addition, the recipients and a guest will be sent, expenses paid, to the 2006 REALTORS® Conference & Expo in New Orleans in November, where they will receive their awards in front of an audience of 6,000 Realtors® and guests attending the conference.

NAR President Thomas M. Stevens said the Good Neighbor Awards brings attention to volunteer work that Realtors® all over the country are quietly doing to help others. “These people typically don’t seek the spotlight -- but they deserve to be recognized. I’m proud that the Good Neighbor Awards gives NAR the opportunity to honor some of the many Realtors® who help strengthen their communities through volunteer work,” Stevens said.

Thirty-three years ago, Chuck Ayala founded Centro Latino de San Francisco, a community center that supports more than 2,000 low-income seniors with meals, transportation, bilingual assistance and health assessments. Ayala, Centro Latino’s CEO and president, also was a delegate to the White House Conference on Aging and serves on the California Commission on Aging, for which he coordinated hearings on disaster preparedness for people living in long-term care facilities.

Rob Cronin is the driving force at the American Cancer Society’s Camp Rainbow Gold, an overnight summer camp equipped with a medical team and social worker that gives children who have been diagnosed with cancer a fun-filled camp experience at no cost to their families. Cronin, a cancer survivor himself, has filled every role: board member, fundraiser, counselor, activities director and camp director. He has raised $1.4 million in two years, which will be used for a new scholarship program to send former campers to college and to help the camp buy its own land and facilities.

Sharon Friend is president of The Children’s Service Guild, which helps children touched by the family court system obtain medical and dental care, clothes, toys, bedding and other essential needs not covered by government funding. The guild is a private nonprofit group that supports 30 departments within the county’s family services and juvenile justice system. The main beneficiary is Child Haven, a temporary residence that houses 5,000 children a year. Friend volunteers an average of 35 hours a week and is credited with maintaining the guild’s financial stability in one of the fastest growing areas in the country and raising enough money for Child Haven to build a new residential facility last year.

In 1995, Lolita Junk founded the Knox County Teen Court, which has helped more than 1,500 juvenile nonviolent first-time offenders get a second chance for a clean record while holding them accountable for their actions. The program, which uses volunteer high school students as attorneys and jurors, gives “sentences” such as anger management stylees, drug or alcohol counseling, apologies, theft seminars and community service. It boasts a recidivism rate of well under 10 percent, compared with 65 to 75 percent for youth handled in the traditional courts. Junk created the first teen court in Illinois, which now has more than 130 programs and has become a model for teen courts nationally and throughout the world.

For 23 years, David Sonenberg has been president of North Fulton Community Charities, an organization he helped found, that assists families, individuals and the elderly by fulfilling emergency needs for food, clothing, rent, utilities, medicine and other basic needs. His leadership and fundraising enabled the NFCC to purchase and renovate its own building last year. In 2005, NFCC helped more than 4,200 families (more than 11,000 people), including 375 Katrina evacuee families. NFCC also operates a food pantry that serves an average of 85 families a day.

In addition to the winners, five Good Neighbor honorable mentions will receive $2,500 grants. They are Jack Conway, Jack Conway & Co., Norwell, Mass., MainSpring Coalition for the Homeless; Lovie McGee, Love Realty, Albuquerque, N.M., African American Cultural Association; Jill Rich, Realty Executives Southern Arizona, Tucson, Ariz., The Sudanese Promise Fund; Singletary “Tary” H. Snyder, Texas Lone Star Realty, Dripping Springs, Texas, Mission Presbytery; and Williemae Stanberry, Stanberry Realty, Pensacola, Fla., A Will & Way Inc.

“REALTOR® Magazine’s 2006 Good Neighbor Awards winners have made tremendous contributions to their communities,” said NAR Vice President of Publications Pamela Geurds Kabati, who is REALTOR® Magazine’s Editorial Director. “Their stories move and deeply inspire all of us. All of the more than 300 nominees -- and particularly our winners -- exemplify the spirit of community service that is typical of Realtors. We’re proud that the Good Neighbor Awards help shine a spotlight on the positive difference Realtors® make in the world.”

REALTOR® Magazine’s Good Neighbor Awards is sponsored by eNeighborhoods Inc. -- which has supported the program since its inception in 2000 -- as well as Fannie Mae and LandAmerica. A contribution was also made by Phil McGinnis, McGinnis Commercial Real Estate, Dover, Del.

“The Good Neighbor Awards showcases the truly amazing things that Realtors® are doing to make an impact on the world, neighborhood by neighborhood,” says Stu Siegel, CEO of eNeighborhoods and founding sponsor of the Awards. “What I find most interesting is how the recipients unanimously cite community service as integral to their success in real estate, despite the enormous amount of time they devote to their causes. Imagine the impact in every community if all 1.3 million members of NAR got more active in community service,” adds Siegel, who personally funds most of the Good Neighbor grants through his family charitable foundation.

Nominees were judged on their personal contribution of time, as well as financial and material contributions to their cause. To be eligible, nominees had to be members in good standing of NAR.

More information about the Good Neighbor Awards winners is available at www.realtor.org/realtormag.

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