From C.A.R.:
TODAY IS THE DAY! Meet your 2025 Champions of Home Impact Awards winner and honorees!
These awards recognize REALTORS® in California who’ve made a significant impact on their communities through
volunteer efforts. We couldn’t be prouder to celebrate these three individuals for their extraordinary efforts and
the profound effects they’ve had on their communities.
So... who wants to meet this year's winner and honorees!?...
Laura Margulius | BHGRE Reliance Partners, Berkeley
Laura Margulius has volunteered for more than 35 years with the Capoeira Arts Foundation, a cultural arts foundation in the East Bay that promotes health, belonging and connection to Afro-Brazilian heritage. Volunteering over 1,200 hours in the last year and a half alone, she provides translation services, maintains the community center, organizes meals and assists with short-term housing for temporarily unhoused members. She has helped CAF secure two new spaces for the cultural center. Her efforts have helped over 4,000 people find a safe community, belonging and connection. MORE INFO
Dawn Dyer | Dyer Sheehan Group, Ventura
Dawn Dyer co-founded the Housing Trust Fund of Ventura County 17 years ago to increase the availability of affordable housing options. The HTFVC began by offering $2 million in matching funds for the early work involved in getting affordable housing off the ground until permanent funding arrived. She has been instrumental in growing HTFVC’s capacity to its current $48 million in funding; allowing for the creation of 1,900 homes for ~5,000 very-low-income, low-income and middle-income employees, transitional age foster youth, veterans, seniors, farm workers and those who are unhoused. MORE INFO
Tammey Mai | Brandolino Group, Santa Clarita
A former foster child herself, Tammey Mai co-founded the Santa Clarita nonprofit Tidings for Teens (T4T) to provide foster teens with clothes, training, peer-counseling and marketable skills. Every year, T4T organizes a holiday gift drive and a back-to-school shopping event just for local foster teens. Tammey works with the Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS) to ensure that T4T can help as many foster teens as possible, and she personally mentors each young person to teach the principles of networking, fundraising and public speaking. MORE INFO
A former foster child herself, Tammey Mai co-founded the Santa Clarita nonprofit Tidings for Teens (T4T) to provide foster teens with clothes, training, peer-counseling and marketable skills. Every year, T4T organizes a holiday gift drive and a back-to-school shopping event just for local foster teens. Tammey works with the Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS) to ensure that T4T can help as many foster teens as possible, and she personally mentors each young person to teach the principles of networking, fundraising and public speaking. MORE INFO
Housing Trust Fund of Ventura County will receive a $5,000 donation thanks to Dawn's work. And thanks to Tammey and Laura, Tidings for Teens and the Capoeira Arts Foundation will each receive a $1,000 donation from C.A.R.
Congrats to Dawn, Tammey and Laura. And thank you all for the work you do in your communities.
You can celebrate them with us at C.A.R.’sREimagine!®Conference & Expoin Chula Vista, where they’ll be recognized during the Wednesday, September 17 keynote lunch.
