For Immediate Release
RE/MAX Agents Donate Over $9 Million in 2015
for 170 Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals
New Miracle System Portal Will Help RE/MAX® Agents
Continue Support for Local Kids this Year
SALT LAKE CITY (March 3, 2016) — RE/MAX agents across North America raised
more than $9 million in 2015 for kids treated at Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals®.
Through the Miracle Home® and Miracle Property programs, offices and agents across
the United States and Canada invested in their communities by making donations — on
behalf of their customers — to local children’s hospitals.
Since partnering with Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals in 1992, RE/MAX agents
have raised more than $147 million for the charity’s 170 member hospitals in the U.S.
and Canada. Donations help fund pediatric medical equipment and treatments, healthcare
services and charitable care. For some agents, these donations are very personal, helping
kids in their own families and neighborhoods.
“The highly specialized care available at children’s hospitals is both astonishing and
reassuring,” said John Lauck, president and CEO of Children’s Miracle Network
Hospitals. “What most people don’t realize, however, is that child-specific equipment,
technology, research and life-saving treatments at member hospitals are possible because
of community donations. RE/MAX agents are saving kids’ lives by making donations
through the Miracle Home and Miracle Property programs after closing transactions.”
In addition to Miracle Home and Miracle Property contributions, RE/MAX offices and
agents generate donations through golf tournaments, benefit dinners, auctions and other
community fundraisers. Many agents also visit children’s hospitals and volunteer their
time to further support the 10 million kids who receive treatment at member Children’s
Miracle Network Hospitals each year.
"RE/MAX agents are the most generous people I know, and they understand how
important their ongoing support of CMN Hospitals is to the children who are treated
at member hospitals," says Mike Reagan, RE/MAX Senior Vice President, Business
Alliances. "When agents meet a miracle child whose life has been changed by the
amazing work happening at local hospitals, they realize they're part of that child's story.
That's the magic of the Miracle Home and Miracle Property programs."
RE/MAX donations help kids like 10-year-old Camryn, who received care at SSM
Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center, the Children’s Miracle Network Hospital
serving St. Louis. Camryn was born six weeks premature, with a congenital heart defect
and multiple orthopedic issues. After a dozen surgeries and being told she may never
walk, talk or see, Camryn is a walking, talking and country music-singing miracle. Now
in the fourth grade, Camryn loves listening to Taylor Swift, writing songs and playing
school.
Camryn joined nearly 6,000 agents at the RE/MAX R4 Convention in Las Vegas, Feb. 29
– March 3. She enjoyed being onstage with Opening General Session host Jay Leno,
inspiring agents to bid high at a live auction, and modeling spring fashion at a show
sponsored by Dillard’s. RE/MAX agents donated $150,000 toward their 2016 fundraising
goal during the many events of the week.
This summer, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals will launch a new Miracle System,
making it easier for RE/MAX agents and offices to help local kids like Camryn. The
secure, online website will streamline agent donations and the process of agents
customizing Honor Cards for their clients. The cards let buyers and sellers know the
agent made a donation to the local hospital in their name.
To support the RE/MAX network’s efforts to fundraise for Children’s Miracle Network
Hospitals, find a Miracle Agent at www.remax.com or look for a RE/MAX yard sign
with the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals balloon on top.
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About Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals
Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals® raises funds and awareness for 170 member hospitals that provide
32 million treatments each year to kids across the U.S. and Canada. Donations stay local to fund critical
treatments and healthcare services, pediatric medical equipment and charitable care. Since 1983, Children’s
Miracle Network Hospitals has raised more than $5 billion, most of it $1 at a time through the charity's
Miracle Balloon icon. Its various fundraising partners and programs support the nonprofit's mission to save
and improve the lives of as many children as possible. Find out why children's hospitals need community
support, and learn about your member hospital, at CMNHospitals.org and facebook.com/CMNHospitals.
About the RE/MAX Network:
RE/MAX was founded in 1973 by Dave and Gail Liniger, with an innovative, entrepreneurial culture
affording its agents and franchisees the flexibility to operate their businesses with great independence. Over
100,000 agents provide RE/MAX a global reach of nearly 100 countries. Nobody sells more real estate than
RE/MAX when measured by residential transaction sides.
RE/MAX, LLC, one of the world’s leading franchisors of real estate brokerage services, is a wholly-owned
subsidiary of RMCO, LLC, which is controlled and managed by RE/MAX Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:RMAX).
With a passion for the communities in which its agents live and work, RE/MAX is proud to have raised
more than $150 million for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals® and other charities.
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Contacts:
Heidi Shepherd
Senior Manager, Public Relations
Children's Miracle Network Hospitals
[email protected]
o: 801-214-7434
Kristen McCloy
Manager, Public Relations
RE/MAX, LLC
[email protected]
o: 303-796-3662