Helping Our Heroes™

 

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Helping Our Heroes™ - MORe
The REALTOR® Association of NorthWest Chicagoland

  • A prestigious Real Estate Association with over 8,000 Real Estate agent members and hundreds of Real Estate Offices.
  • Mainstreet Organization of REALTORS® is governed by a Board of Directors; reporting to them is a management team. The Board assures compliance with the Mission Statement. The management team assures smooth operations in servingMainstreet Organization of REALTORS® members.
  • Mainstreet Organization of REALTORS® Mission Statement — "The REALTOR® Association of NorthWest Chicagoland is dedicated to serving its members by developing and enhancing members' competency, ethics, and professionalism; ensuring members' ability to conduct their real estate business; and protecting and promoting private property rights."

About the Foundation & how we distribute the money

The Mainstreet Organization of REALTORS® Charitable Foundation is 501C3 designated. ALL net proceeds from the Helping Our Heroes™ Program, sponsored by this Foundation, will be distributed to qualifying active duty Illinois Military Personnel, Veterans, Fire Fighters, Police Officers, and Veterans that are in financial distress regarding paying their mortgage and necessary home repairs.

Who we have helped

Helping Our Heroes™ has helped 36 families that were close to foreclosure and eviction.

Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008

Preserving the American Dream for Our Nation’s Veterans. To assist returning soldiers avoid foreclosure, this bill lengthens the time a lender must wait before starting foreclosure from three months to nine months after a soldier returns from service and also provides returning soldiers with one year relief from increases in mortgage interest rates. In addition, the Depar™ent of Defense is required to establish a counseling program to ensure veterans and active service members can access assistance if facing financial difficulties. Also included is a provision that increases the VA loan guarantee amount, so that veterans have additional homeownership opportunities. The bill contains provisions to do the following: increase benefits paid to veterans with disabilities such as blindness for the purpose of adapting their housing; provide a moving benefit to servicemen and woman who are forced to move out of rental housing because the owner of the housing was foreclosed on; provide that veterans benefits received in a lump sum are treated the same for the purposes of eligibility for housing assistance as monthly benefits; and to allow the Veterans Administration to provide for improvements and structural alterations to homes of veterans with service-connected disabilities."

Who is the Mainstreet Organization of REALTORS® Affiliate Committee

  • The Mainstreet Organization of REALTORS® Affiliate Committee is a grouping of businesses offering products and services useful to Real Estate Agents and Real Estate Offices.
  • The Affiliate Committee helps the Mainstreet Organization of REALTORS® Real Estate Agent members by providing a one-stop source for products and services.

Why are we doing this

  • Mainstreet Organization of REALTORS® and the Affiliate Committee learned about our Illinois Public Service individuals (active duty Illinois Military Personnel, Veterans, Fire Fighters, and Police Officers) financial plight and its impact on their home-related expenses.
  • Mainstreet Organization of REALTORS® and the Affiliate Committee felt obligated to HELPING OUR HEROES™—it's the least we can do to help them.
  • Hoping for legislative help—we also hope that there is continued and further Federal and State legislation that'll help our service personnel experiencing difficult financial situations, in addition to raising money to help our heroes with their financial distress.

 
How you will benefit
  • Feel good about helping our active duty Illinois Military Personnel, Veterans, Fire Fighters, and Police Officers who experience extraordinary home-related expenses.
Lt. Governor Pat Quinn Award
  • HOH was honored by receiving from Lt. Governor Pat Quinn the Homefront Hero Award on 12/20/2004 for HOH's donation to the Illinois Military Family Relief Fund.