Social Responsibility

Signature Charities

Every year, each CTMT city selects a Signature Charity to which they donate significant financial and personal resources. Signature Charities are selected after a comprehensive review of area non-profits. Determining factors include: financial need, volunteer opportunities, available sponsorship options, culture fit, etc.

Listed below are details regarding each of our eight cities’ 2007 Signature Charities, including our first-ever CTMT Signature Charity in Indianapolis. If you would like to view a comprehensive list of all the non-profit organizations CTMT cities support, click here (pdf).

Company-Wide

Colliers USA Foundation

The Colliers USA Foundation was established to provide financial and other support to both domestic and international disaster relief efforts, including general assistance, recovery, and redevelopment activities. Colliers has supported reconstruction efforts in Kirinda Village in Sri Lanka and also in the southern U.S. after Hurricane Katrina.

Colliers won the prestigious residential award at MIPIM in Cannes, France, for its ground-breaking project to reconstruct Kirinda Village in Sri Lanka, following the 2004 tsunami. To read more about Colliers’ efforts in Kirinda Village visit www.collierskirinda.com.

To learn more about Colliers USA Foundation visit their website at www.colliersusafoundation.org.

United Way

United Way is an organization that is supported by all of Colliers Turley Martin Tucker’s cities. Each office hosts an annual campaign, in which associates have the opportunity to sign up for an annual commitment to the organization. For the past 20+ years, CTMT has continued to increase its dollars per capita as well as its overall participation.

United Way is a national network of more than 1,300 locally governed organizations that work to create lasting positive changes in communities and people’s lives. Building on more than a century of service as the nation’s preeminent community-based fundraiser, United Way engages the community to identify the underlying causes of the most significant local issues, develops strategies, and pulls together financial and human resources to address them, and measures the results.

To learn more about the United Way, visit their website at national.unitedway.org.

Cincinnati

FreeStoreFoodbank

The FreestoreFoodbank was founded in 1971 and serves about 200,000 people in twenty counties in southern Ohio, northern Kentucky, and southeastern Indiana. They provide food, clothing, and shelter assistance to people who are unemployed, the working poor or those whose homes have been destroyed by flood or fire. The agency also provides evening meals to hungry children through Kids Cafe. In addition, they distribute donated and surplus food to approximately 500 non-profit agencies that in turn help prevent hunger in their own neighborhoods.

Tom Powers and Paula Neises of Colliers Turley Martin Tucker-Cincinnati serve on the Board of Directors for FreeStoreFoodbank. CTMT Cincinnati is also a major sponsor of their “Taste of the NFL??? event. In addition, CTMT associates have committed to monthly volunteer activities at the distribution center.

To learn more about The FreestoreFoodbank visit their website at www.freestorefoodbank.org.

Columbus

CityMusic

CityMusic presents programs for at-risk youth as well as world and chamber music programs for the benefit of the central Ohio community. CTMT Columbus chose to support CityMusic because they believe that musical involvement is a healthy alternative to the distractions that can plague today’s youth. They also believe that the arts serve a vital role in the enrichment of Columbus.

To learn more about CityMusic visit their website at www.citymusiccolumbus.org.

Dayton

Ronald McDonald House

CTMT-Dayton is the proud Title Sponsor of The Annual Ronald McDonald House Donor Appreciation Event at the Dayton Art Institute
as well as a sponsor of the Annual Ronald McDonald House Ray Wright Golf Classic and Dinner Auction.

To learn more about the Ronald McDonald House in Daygon visit their website at www.rmhcdayton.org.

Indianapolis

inFuZion

inFuZion was created to enliven the Indianapolis community with the sound of kids at play, alter it with color and movement, and enrich it for future generations. Each year, the employees and associates of Colliers Turley Martin Tucker (CTMT) will choose an Indianapolis-based organization in need of a playground for the children it serves. The playground is funded and constructed by Colliers Turley Martin Tucker – Indianapolis.

To learn more about inFuZion visit their website at www.ctmtinfuzion.com.

Kansas City

Kansas City Public Television (KCPT)

CTMT Kansas City has chosen KCPT as its Signature Charity. Since 2005, CTMT has sponsored the annual KCPT TV Dinner, which is the primary fundraiser for KCPT Kids. In addition to television programming, KCPT Kids also provides valuable and unique services to Kansas City families; one such service is Ready to Learn. With the Kansas City skyline as the backdrop, attendees experience an elegant evening where more than 20 top restaurants, all members of the Kansas City Originals, serve their best cuisine.

CTMT Kansas City’s Managing Principal, Frazier Bell and his wife Buckie, are past co-chairs of this event. They are both involved at the committee level again this year.

“The TV Dinner is more than just a good time; it's a great opportunity to support KCPT Kids,??? said Frazier Bell. “KCPT Kids provides educational programming with no commercials and no violence; giving children a safe place to learn and to prepare for school. I am proud to be involved with this personally and corporately as the Presenting Sponsor.

To learn more about KCPT visit their website at www.kcpt.org.

Minneapolis/St. Paul

YMCA of Metropolitan Minneapolis

CTMT Minneapolis/St. Paul is pleased to partner with the YMCA of Metropolitan Minneapolis through their Colliers Connects to Camps program. Both organizations are proud to share the same values of caring, honesty, respect and responsiveness. The associates of CTMT Minneapolis are looking forward to this year's camping season and building relationships with the children of our community. The new season also gives CTMT associates the opportunity to volunteer as camp mentors, greeters, and baggage handlers.

To learn more about the YMCA of Metropolitan Minneapolis visit their website at www.ymcatwincities.org.

Nashville

Ronald McDonald House Golf Tournament

CTMT Nashville is the title sponsor for the Ronald McDonald House Golf Tournament. As a Title Sponsor last year, not only did CTMT make a financial donation, the staff and brokers stepped up to the challenge of growing the event. Foursomes were purchased by the brokers, and auction items were donated by staff, vendors and clients. The whole group volunteered the day of the event and had a great time raising a record amount of $135,000, $85,000 more than two years prior. Even bigger plans are ahead for the 2007 CTMT Ronald McDonald House Golf Tournament.

The Nashville office has also embraced the families at the Ronald McDonald House and enjoys cooking monthly dinners. Staff and brokers take turns and the competition is on for "the best dinners" for the families.

To learn more about the Ronald McDonald House visit their website at www.rmhnashville.com.

St. Louis

Ronald McDonald House Golf Tournament & Dinner Auction

CTMT-St. Louis supports their signature charity, Ronald McDonald House, by being the proud Title Sponsor of The Annual Ronald McDonald House Golf Tournament and Dinner Auction. Tremendous support for this event is shown each year, with CTMT associates volunteering and CTMT vendors and business partners donating auction items and purchasing sponsorships.

Along with sponsoring the Annual Tournament and Auction, CTMT associates donate their time every month to cook dinner for the families staying at the Ronald McDonald House.

To learn more about the Ronald McDonald House, visit their website at www.rmhcstl.com.