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
2017 SIOR Foundation President
Davis Hagan, SIOR, CCIM
2017 SIOR Foundation
President
SIOR FOUNDATION
FOUNDATION PRESIDENT’S
LETTER