Cambridge REALTOR® Receives Good Neighbor Award, $2,500 Grant For Just-A-Start Corporation

BOSTON, July 18, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In front of a crowd of her colleagues, Lisa Drapkin was honored at the Greater Boston Association of REALTORS® (GBAR) Annual Awards Breakfast on June 23 at the Granite Links Golf Club in Quincy as the recipient of the 2017 GBAR Good Neighbor Award. Drapkin also received a $2,500 grant for the Just-A-Start Corporation of Cambridge in recognition of her charitable work with the organization. Drapkin is a broker with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Cambridge.

The Good Neighbor Award is modeled closely after that given by the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) and recognizes real estate professionals for their community activism.  Recipients of the award have made an extraordinary commitment to improving the quality of life in their communities through volunteer work.

Drapkin began her work with the Just-A-Start Corporation in 2016 and had an immediate and substantial impact on the organization and community. Using her vast personal and professional networks, as well as her knowledge of the affordable housing needs in the Cambridge community, she helped bring in significant funding, in-kind support and good will for the organization. By helping increase the visibility and donor base, Drapkin was instrumental in elevating the organization's profile at a crucial time when earlier this year when a fire destroyed one of its affordable housing properties. Additionally, Drapkin has personally helped raise more than $30,000 for the organization in the past year.

The Greater Boston Association of REALTORS® is a private trade association with more than 9,000 REALTOR® members who specialize in residential real estate in Eastern Massachusetts.  GBAR is the largest of five divisions of the Greater Boston Real Estate Board (GBREB), and a local chapter of the Massachusetts and National Associations of REALTORS® (NAR).  REALTOR® is a federally-registered trademark reserved exclusively for members of NAR.

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SOURCE Greater Boston Association of REALTORS(R)

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