Annual Summer Charity Soirée for WISEPlace
Each summer, the chapter holds its annual Summer Charity Soirée with a significant portion of the profits benefiting WISEPlace. This well-attended, commercial real estate networking event includes cocktails, dinner and a live band. The evening also includes live and silent auctions as well as an opportunity drawing.
CREW Orange County is proud to support WISEPlace as they help transform the lives of approximately 90 women each year by providing safe, affordable, transitional housing, healthy meals, financial-empowerment curriculum and employment assistance, and creating opportunities to build self-reliance.
CREW Careers
The CREW Careers: Building Opportunities program is a hands-on "Real Estate 101" classroom program designed to introduce high school girls to the many career opportunities available to them in the commercial real estate industry. The event is a one-day program, using local real estate developments, projects or sites to showcase and illustrate the various career options available within commercial real estate. For more information, please contact info@creworangecounty.org.
Scholarships
CREW Orange County College Scholarship
The Orange County Chapter created a scholarship program in 2015 to support future female leaders as they pursue university-level education that will lead to careers in commercial real estate.
This $5,000 scholarship is awarded annually to an Orange County undergraduate or graduate student whose focus of study is included in one or more of CREW Network's qualified fields of commercial real estate.
CREW Network Foundation College Scholarships
The CREW Network Foundation is building a talent pipeline for future female professionals in commercial real estate with a college scholarship program. The Foundation supports future female leaders as they pursue university-level education that will lead to careers in commercial real estate. With the help of its generous donors and Linda Hollemon Scholarship Endowment Founders, CREW Network Foundation gave thirty (30) $5,000 academic scholarships to young women in 2022.
Jan. 4 - April 15 — Applications accepted
April 15 - June 30 — Applications reviewed by Scholarship Selection Committee
July — Winners announced
CREW Network Foundation
CREW Network Foundation, the philanthropic arm of CREW Network, is the only charitable foundation solely dedicated to advancing women in the commercial real estate industry. CREW Network Foundation is committed to bringing more women into commercial real estate by offering programs like CREW Careers and UCREW that educate women and girls about the career opportunities in the industry; supporting CRE higher education and training through college scholarships and internships; and providing mentorships to those new to the industry.