Canton Agent Wins $2,500 REALTOR® Good Neighbor Award

BOSTON, July 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In front of a crowd of his colleagues and friends, Joel Pratt was honored at the Greater Boston Association of REALTORS® (GBAR) Annual Awards Brunch on June 18 at The Museum of Science in Boston with the 2013 GBAR Good Neighbor Award. Joel also received a $2,500 grant for an organization close to his heart, MatchingDonors.com. Pratt, a Canton resident and broker at JL Pratt, REALTORS®, has worked hard to spread the word of MatchingDonors.com.

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.

Over the past nine years, with the assistance of Pratt, MatchingDonors.com has become the largest and most successful nonprofit organization in the world that is improving the odds of finding living altruistic organ donors for patients needing transplants. Most patients find their living altruistic donor organ and get their lifesaving organ transplant within 6 months of joining MatchingDonors.com. Pratt is the Director of Business Development for MatchingDonors.com and contributes much of his personal time and money to help the cause.

"Passing out a business card and searching for a real estate referral can save a life, and my personal goal is to save 1,000 lives. An amazing fact is that the number of donors exceeds the number of patients 13,000 to 500, meaning patients can have many possible donors and are able find a match in less than 6 months. I am always available to take two extra steps to save a life," said Pratt.

To learn more about the organ donor process, visit www.matchingdonors.com.

The Greater Boston Association of REALTORS® is a private trade association with more than 6,000 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. www.gbar.org

SOURCE Greater Boston Association of REALTORS(R)

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