CompareBroker Employees Giving Back to the community

In the spirit of Holidays Compare Broker employees got together and used their savings to help raise more than $500 for local and international charities. They have kept up the Compare Broker spirit of working with, and for the betterment of society as a whole whether it is in the spirit of bringing the best knowledge to our customers or helping feed the poor.

Till date more than 10,000 consumers have used our services to compare the rates between different online brokerage firms. A part of  the commissions earned from them has been used to donate to:

1.) Richmond Rebuilding Together : Rebuilding Together Richmond is the Richmond, Virginia affiliate of Rebuilding Together. The Rebuilding Together program exists in hundreds of communities throughout the country. Our program serves the City of Richmond.

Their focus is to provide warmth, safety, and independence to the elderly and disabled. They are rebuilding homes, and rebuilding lives.

The program is centered around a one-day “blitz”, held the last Saturday in April, when over 1500 volunteers each year make both major and minor repairs to qualified homes. Few of compare-broker employees have also been a part of the blitz.

Since their first project in 1993, the size and scope of our work has grown. They have now improved nearly 800 homes in sixteen communities, including Blackwell, Church Hill, Newtown South, Summerhill, Jefferson-Davis corridor, Maymont, Barton Heights, Montrose/National Heights, Providence Park, Swansboro, Oak Grove, Carver, Bellemeade, Byrd Park, Randolph and Highland Park.

This represents an estimated market value of more than $700,000 last year alone in home improvements, home repairs, and community revitalization project in at-risk neighborhoods.

Last year, they raised over $150,000, which was used to rehabilitate 42 homes in the Green Park and Highland View areas of the Highland Park neighborhood.

2.) AID India : As of Monday, 5 Oct 2009, more than 200 people were reported dead and an estimated 2 million displaced from their homes due to incessant rains and floods in Krishna and Tungabhadra rivers in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka that started in southern India from Thursday, Oct 1.

According to the Press Trust of India (PTI), 400 villages in five districts in the state of Andhra Pradesh had been hit by the worst floods in 100 years. In Karnataka, heavy loss of life and destruction to property was in the northern districts of Bijapur, Bagalkot, Raichur and Bellary. Both in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, over 300,000 houses were damaged due to floods.

Those displaced are suffering acutely due to lack of food and clean water. This is an hour we all must come together and show our wholehearted support for the flood survivors. It is critical that the immediate needs such as food, clean water and medicine are provided to those affected.

AID INDIA is a volunteer movement, and a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization (tax ID 04-365260). Donations to AID are tax-deductible in the USA.

AID INDIA has experience in working on relief and rehabilitation in flood affected areas during Tsunami, Bihar and Cyclone Aila recently.

Right now AID INDIA is actively working with several partner organizations in Andhra and Karnataka for relief and rehabilitation of the survivors. It is committed to ensure that the funds get dispatched at the earliest. We hope you will help us maximize the support we can provide as quickly as possible. The need is dire and we all must act with the greatest possible urgency to rush aid and relief to those affected.

If you want to know more about how to donate to the causes, please feel free to email us at info@comaprebroker.com.