CEO Message: Monday Janauary 21st, 2008

ALLISON JAMES ESTATES & HOMES
MUSIC CAMP
Some of you have inquired about the Music Camp link on our website. This idea of underwriting music education in our nation’s public school system through fundraising events is very near and dear to my heart. My wife, Ginger and I both come from families where music was highly appreciated and valued. Music has also been a cornerstone of our friendship with Scott Chamberlin (President of AJI) and his wife, Liz. Since part of the mission of our company is to give back to the community, it’s only natural that we would want to nurture and strengthen our nation’s love of music. This is the year I’d like to inaugurate our first national Allison James Estates and Homes Music Camp Fundraiser.
This fundraiser will take place annually, during the third weekend of September. Since we know that “timing is everything”, we wanted to capitalize on the optimistic and upbeat spirit in schools, when students are just back from summer vacation, and looking forward to the new year, incorporating interested students, teachers and administrators in the local high schools along with community leaders into our fundraiser efforts.
We encourage our Broker Affiliates and all our Realtor Associates to join us and initiate a fund raiser program in your local area. If we all work together, we can make a huge difference in our local high school music programs, where students can be part of a high quality, reliably funded program.
Our first fundraiser in the State of Florida for the ALLISON JAMES ESTATES & HOMES Music Camp will take place in the Port Charlotte area of West Florida. We are working with two of the local Yacht Clubs to find a suitable location.
Our intent is to have an ART AUCTION at one of the local Yacht Clubs. We would then invite the A LIST in the area, i.e. patrons of the arts, local political leaders, community leaders, etc. Our goal is to invite 250 local leaders to a $100-a-plate dinner.
Then after dinner we would open the Art Auction. We believe that we can raise as much as $25,000 dollars after expenses on our very first fundraiser for the ALLISON JAMES ESTATES & HOMES MUSIC CAMP.
There are virtually hundred different ideas out there that can generate fantastic fund raisers. We ask all of you to submit your ideas to the corporate office, so that we can send out press releases to help in our multiple efforts. Let’s make this program a real success so we can benefit all our local High School music programs.