Professional Report

Dear SIOR Members and Friends, I am both honored and excited to start my term as your SIOR Foundation President. But first, a huge thank you to our retiring President, Patricia Loveall, SIOR. Under her leadership, the Foundation continued its commitment to enhance the commercial real estate community, renewed its partnership with IAMC and strengthened its resolve to educate the SIOR community.

Thank you to all who support the SIOR Foundation throughout the year. We started the year off with a bang at the 2016 Fall SIOR World Conference. While onsite, for every $300 donation, we gifted a one-of-a-kind engraved Yeti tumbler, celebrating the SIOR Foundation and SIOR’s 75th Anniversary. Thanks to your generosity, the Foundation was able to raise $55,000. We held our annual Phonathon in November, and thanks to the tireless work of the SIOR Foundation Trustees, we received pledges totaling over $188,000. Make sure you get those payments in by the end of the year in order to qualify for your 2016 tax write off!

The money earned by these events will go to support you and your SIOR Chapters through our Chapter matching Scholarship and Programs grants, educational programming at SIOR conferences, and a new program that I believe is off to an outstanding start, the Student Real Estate Experience Program.

The Student Real Estate Experience Program helps chapters send college and graduate level students who have shown interest in commercial real estate to CRE events which can be on the local, regional or national level. The students are assigned an SIOR member to be their mentor at the event and are provided the opportunity to learn more about the exciting field of commercial and industrial real estate as well as SIOR and the amazing people who are its members!

We invite leaders from all Chapters to reach out to the SIOR Foundation to ask how you can participate in this program, as well as how you can access other funds to assist your chapter with educational programs, local initiatives, and scholarships. We are eager to help you Educate, Enhance, and Expand your local chapter.

If you have ever considered becoming a Trustee of the Foundation we would love to hear from you. You will make incredible new relationships, expand existing ones, and help all of us to make a difference in Very truly yours, Davis Hagan, SIOR, CCIM