Vote for West Coast Board Member Rick Harris for the NAR Good Neighbor Award

Every year the National Association of Realtors (NAR) selects 10 REALTORS for their Good Neighbor Awards, which honors REALTORS who make the world a better place through extraordinary volunteer work.

This year, CCIM West Coast Board Member Rick Harris has received the Good Neighbor Award. Rick is the first and only recipient from the Tampa Bay area to receive the award and the only REALTOR finalist from Florida.

Rick Harris is the Volunteer President of The Arc TB, a $12 million nonprofit that runs housing and educational programming for approximately 275 children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

The Arc TB runs 18 group homes and a 22-unit apartment complex that together house more than 150 people. These facilities require remodeling, renting, and sometimes buying and selling, which is made easier with Rick Harris’s Real Estate expertise. Rick has helped The Arc increase its revenue by $250,000 a year.

“His insight into the markets and the value of the properties we’re going to invest these nonprofit dollars into have led to us to make wise decisions,” says Madison Orr Hauenstein, executive director of The Arc of Tampa Bay Foundation.

More than 100 people have found work through The Arc TB’s Supported Employment Program and Work Center. Some of the jobs include assembling hangers, working at movie theatres, as well as other local businesses.

“These are the less fortunate who people think have nothing to contribute to society. But they do. You just have to find that talent and bring it out,” says Rick Harris.

Please help Rick Harris’s Charity, The Arc TB, receive additional grant money by voting for him as one of the Three Web Choice Favorites for The Good Neighbor Award.

You can vote for Rick by clicking on the following link: https://www.realtor.com/goodneighbor/?n=Nominee5&cid=prt_gna18__finalist_vote