RE/MAX of Western Canada trumpets organ donor awareness by participating in an advertising campaign during the month of April culminating during Organ Donor Awareness Week – April 18-24, 2011. Promoting this important health issue helps give potential transplant recipients on the waiting list hope of receiving life saving organ transplants before it's too late.

RE/MAX is a proud sponsor of Organ Donor Awareness campaigns in BC and in the Prairies.

In BC, REMAX is one of 12 sponsors and featured on Global, CTV, CHEK and TV Week. The campaign’s 278 spots deliver over 2,000,000 impressions. The campaign runs in two flights. The Spring flight airs April 4-31 and the Fall flight airs October 3 – 30. This year they are debuting a new “Eva” spot (more on that in the Aquarius press release).

In the Prairies, REMAX is the sole sponsor, featured on Global in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The campaign runs for four weeks, April 4 – May 1. All in, the campaign’s 589 spots deliver 764,900 impressions. The creative is the “Josh” spot which is in the process of getting updated to the OAOR tag.

BC Transplant is celebrating its 25th Anniversary this year after a record-breaking number of organ transplants and donor registrations in 2010.

RE/MAX of Western Canada is supporting BC Transplant Society who is launching a new campaign, LIVE LIFE. PASS IT ON. This campaign is to help raise awareness for organ donation by keeping the spotlight focused on the life changing results that transplant brings to those in need. RE/MAX of Western Canada is encouraging it’s British Columbia Broker Owners, Agents and Affiliates to proudly hang the Eva Markvoort posters in their offices, link the promotional videos to their websites and help spread this worthy message through their social media sites.





What can you do to help?
• Share your support by updating your Facebook profile picture, “I Gave My Heart”, with BC Transplants new application at www.facebook.com/bctransplant.
• Tweet #4Eva – the movement for organ donation
• Watch the new TV Ad online and share the link via social media
• Attend the screening of 65_RedRoses on April 27th at the Ridge Theatre. Purchase your ticket online at www.trfbc.org/bctscreening and share information on the event with your network.

In Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba “the Josh” campaign is running through the month of April.

For further information on your local provincial registry programs, please visit www.liveon.ca.

For information, contact Marie Sheppy at msheppy@remax.net

The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation's Yard Sale for the Cure Presented by RE/MAX is a series of yard sales that take place across Canada on May 28, 2011. The donated proceeds from annual Yard Sale for the Cure's have raised over $725,000 to date for breast cancer research, awareness and education.

You can get involved by hosting a yard sale and make a difference with your spring cleaning. Don't forget to tell your family, friends and colleagues to join in the fun! Click here to read first hand why participants hosted a yard sale.

Don't forget that 1 800 Got Junk is also a sponsor and want to support your sale. Please contact their local office.

If you are planning on hosting an individual yard sale, you can region online for $25 – all you need will be sent to you to help you hold a successful yard salt. Register today and help create a future without breast cancer.

Find a yard sale near you!

Connect with other buyers and sellers on the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation's message board.

Want to know what hosting a Yard Sale for the Cure is like? Check out this video from RE/MAX Garden City's 2010 Yard Sale:

Need help moving all that stuff?

RE/MAX Approved Supplier, PODS, is offering RE/MAX affiliates moving and storage solutions at 10% at participating locations across Canada. Visit www.PODS.com/remax (Promo Code: RMAX) or phone 1-866-556-9595.

Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation is hosting
a Community wide Yard Sale for the Cure!
When: May 28th, 2011, 8:00am to 1:00pm
Where: Hawthorn Park, 10503 – 144 Street, Surrey, BC
We are looking for RE/MAX involvement. come join their organized event by volunteering or donating items.
Please contact Judy Boxer at jboxer@cbcf.org.

RE/MAX associate Peter Dagg, RE/MAX Sea to Sky Real Estate, Whistler BC, is training hard for this year’s Enbridge Ride to Conquer Cancer® two-day cycling event taking place on June 18-19, 2011.

The Enbridge Ride to Conquer Cancer is a powerful movement one of hope, healing, celebration and optimism where thousands of cyclists join together to raise funds and awareness in order to conquer cancer.

It is a unique fundraising event benefiting the BC Cancer Foundation, a B.C.-based charity that raises funds for the BC Cancer Agency - a province-wide, population-based cancer control organization. The funds you raise stay in B.C. and benefit cancer patients across all of British Columbia.

Funds from The Enbridge Ride to Conquer Cancer support groundbreaking cancer research at the BC Cancer Agency, focused on advancing new understanding of cancer with the goal of developing new therapies to extend and save more lives.

To help support Peter in his quest to Conquer Cancer please visit his personal page at:

http://www.conquercancer.ca/site/TR/Events/Vancouver2011?px=2619019&pg=personal&fr_id=1371

As printed in HERO The Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation Magazine:

In 2011, every RE/MAX REALTOR® in Edmonton donated to the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation. When this happens, they achieve ‘Miracle City’ status. Together, they raised more than $365,000 in support of sick and injured children.

RE/MAX agents are sometimes known as ‘miracle workers’ for their ability to find just the right house. However, it’s outside the home purchase where the real miracles happen. When you buy a home with a RE/MAX agent, he or she has an option to make a contribution on behalf of the sale to the local Children’s Miracle Network hospital through RE/MAX’s Miracle Home Program.

In addition to their Miracle Home Program, RE/MAX once again teamed up with Marriott at River Cree Resort to raise more than $60,000 from their Cotton Club Gala.

Congratulations RE/MAX agents on becoming a Miracle City! Thank you for your continued support.


Click here for the updated 2011 Children’s Miracle Network Hospital Foundation contact list.

The RE/MAX 2011 "Quest for Excellence" Bursary Program is now closed. The program ran from September 2010 to March 15, 2011. Western Canadian Grade 12 students were offered the opportunity to apply for one of sixteen $1,000 bursaries by writing a short essay.

A press release will be issued announcing the 2011 winners on May 9th, 2011. To download a copy of the press release go to http://www.remax-western.ca/newsroom 

Thank you for supporting the Quest for Excellence Program and helping our future leaders.