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Homeseed of Hope – Toys for Tots

Posted on November 22, 2022November 22, 2022 by mmttest2

Homeseed of Hope – Toys for Tots

In our community outreach effort for Homeseed of Hope, the Pelayo Lending Team at Homeseed is proud to be partnering up this holiday season with Toys for Tots in order to collect new and unwrapped toys for kids in need. Toys for Tots began in 1947, when Major Bill Hendricks’s wife, Diane, asked Bill to donate her homemade doll. When Bill determined that no agency existed, Diane told Bill that he should start one and he did. Since 1980, Marines have collected and distributed new toys. The goal is to deliver a message of hope, which will assist in building self-esteem and, in turn, motivate less fortunate children to grow into responsible, productive, patriotic citizens, and community leaders. A new toy of their own accomplishes this goal. The Pelayo Lending team will be working to collect toys at 4 locations listed below. We will be accepting donations until December 10, 2022 so that the kids may get these toys in time for Christmas.

Learn more about Toys for Tots

Donation Box Locations
Homeseed HQ – 3633 136th Pl SE Suite 210, Bellevue, WA 98006
Keller Williams – Kirkland – 11109 Slater Ave NE #200a, Kirkland, WA 98033
Vida Integrated Health – 11901 NE Village Plaza, Suite 261, Kirkland, WA 98034
Vida Integrated Health – 606 120th Ave NE Suite 100, Bellevue, WA 98005

About Homeseed of Hope

Community reciprocity and reinvestment have long been goals of Homeseed since we first launched in June of 2016. In addition to providing a uniquely empowering mortgage lending experience, Homeseed wanted to use its platform to support the individuals, businesses, and programs in the communities we serve. That desire remains true today and led to us creating Homeseed of Hope – an initiative to guide our community outreach efforts.

Homeseed of Hope – Esperanza

Posted on August 20, 2021March 15, 2022 by Jon Dao

In our third outreach effort for Homeseed of Hope, we are featuring Esperanza International, a non-profit organization started by former Seattle Mariners player Dave Valle. The initial idea of Esperanza ties back to one of Dave’s experience while playing baseball in the Dominican Republic. One night, outside of the baseball stadium in Santo Domingo, Dave and his wife, Vicky, witnessed children begging and rummaging through garbage cans for food. To feed the children, Dave paid a nearby street vendor to cook up all of her remaining food for the children. Realizing these children would wake up hungry again the next morning, the experience impacted the Valles so deeply that Dave said, “We made a decision that if we were ever in a position to change it, we would do that.” Ten years later, as Dave’s professional baseball was winding down, Dave and Vicky agreed, “It’s time,” and Esperanza was created.

Esperanza’s mission is to free children and their families from poverty through their primary focus of microcredit financing. Using microcredit financing as a “hand up (not hand out)” tool, Esperanza has been able to help individuals and families “build houses, gaining knowledge to manage their enterprises and finances, and become community leaders.” As they celebrate 25 years of service, their microcredit financing has created over 100,000 jobs and opportunities for individuals and families in the Dominican Republic.

Homeseed sponsored the Esperanza International’s annual Dave Valle Charity Golf Classic this year and will be planning to participate again next year. We invite you all to learn more about this this great organization, and to donate if you have the means to in the links below:

Visit Esperanza’s Website

Learn more about Esperanza

Donate to Esperanza