Michael Tseng, CCIM was recently honored with an endowed scholarship through CCIM Foundation. CCIM President Mark Macek, CCIM, presented the awarded to Mr. Tseng on behalf of the foundation at a Taiwan CCIM forum which drew 900 participants. The endowed scholarship was created to recognize Mr. Tseng for his ongoing contributions to the commercial real estate industry, the Taiwan CCIM Chapter, and CCIM Institute. Mr. Tseng is the Executive Chairman of REPro Knight Frank in Taipei, Taiwan, and has over 20 years of experience in real estate. He founded his company with a vision of raising the commercial real estate services standard in Taiwan to international levels, and assisting investors to explore opportunities in Taiwan’s commercial real estate market.

Mr. Tseng was the first professional in Taiwan to earn the Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designation, the founding President of the Chapter, and graduate of the Jay W. Levine Leadership Development Academy – Class of 2006.

The directors and staff of the CCIM Foundation mourn the loss of Mary Dee Karp, CCIM, who passed away on Thursday, November 18, 2014. Robin Webb, CCIM, President, said, “Mary Dee was a terrific lady with a great heart for both the CCIM Institute and the CCIM Foundation who will certainly be missed”.

Ms. Karp was a long-time board member and champion of the CCIM Foundation who was honored with lifetime membership to the board in 2012. Ms. Karp was very involved with the foundation’s scholarship programs both at the national and chapter level. She was honored with her first named endowed scholarship in 2004, and was subsequently honored with four additional scholarships in her name through the Northern California CCIM Chapter. (She is the only CCIM with more than one named endowed scholarship.)

Doug Sawyer, CCIM, Past President of the CCIM Foundation, shared that Mary Dee “always engaged in policy discussions out of concern and never for personal gains. No one loved or cared for CCIM more.”

Thanks to the many donors who made our 2014 Silent Auction such a success! We raised over $32,000 on the 50 items donated. Our thanks also to those who placed the winning bids. See the complete list of this year’s donors.

CCIM Foundation held a raffle during the CCIM Institute 2014 Midyear Business Meetings in Nashville, raising net proceed of over $2,000.  Thanks to the many people that purchased raffle tickets, and congratulations to the winners. See winners and prizes.

At the CCIM Institute 2014 Midyear Business Meetings in Nashville, CCIM Foundation announced the creation of 10 new fully funded named endowed scholarships. More.

Click here for the 2013 CCIM Foundation Annual Report

Robin Webb, managing director of NAI Realvest in Orlando, was recently elected president of the CCIM Foundation, which fosters commercial real estate education programs and initiatives worldwide and funded scholarships worth more than $750,000 over the past five years. More.

CCIM Live!: Real Estate Gifts (Oct 26, 2013): A New Market Niche. View video here.

CCIM Institute and CCIM Foundation have produced a free webinar to educate real estate professionals about the array of options for donating real estate. The webinar speaker is Mary Stark Hood, J.D., CFP^®. View webinar here.