In the Community

Mid-America has a well-established tradition of supporting local charities and other nonprofit organizations that make a positive difference in the markets where we work and live. We seek to maximize the impact of our resources and team members’ expertise.

Here are some highlights of recent efforts:

• Employees in the Bloomfield Hills office participate with the Eternal Light charity to help feed, house, and aid people in need throughout the Metro Detroit area. Team members actively participated in all aspects of relocating a refugee family, including purchasing/building furniture, providing home and school essentials, and paying the family’s rent for a year.
• Since 2020, the Chicago office has partnered with My Block, My Hood, My City, which encourages investments in youth residing in neighborhoods that have been underserved. The Explorers Program is an initiative that takes young Chicagoans to hundreds of different sites in the city and beyond to broaden the kids’ horizons. Among other things, Mid-America hosts high school students at its office to show students what their jobs entail as well as highlight career opportunities in the real estate industry.
• The Chicago and Oakbrook Terrace offices are represented on the Board of Directors and Associate Board of the Harold E. Eisenberg Foundation and are annual sponsors of its two-pronged mission to provide real estate education opportunities to college students and advance gastrointestinal cancer research.
• The Milwaukee office works closely with Next Door, an organization for underserved children that provides personalized early childhood education. They serve 1,400 kids a year with the focus on getting them ready for school and helping expectant mothers in a prenatal services program. Mid-America holds book drives for donations and multiple employees visit children to help them read.

Mid-America employees are encouraged to volunteer with community organizations. In fact, all of our offices provide paid time off for volunteering.

The Next Generation

Mid-America also supports a variety of college programs to help educate and inspire the next generation of real estate professionals. We aspire to see the industry become even more diverse and inclusive, and support efforts to that end with financial contributions and the personal time of our professionals.

Among the organizations we’ve supported are the Marquette University Center for Real Estate in Milwaukee, The Marshall Bennett Institute of Real Estate at Roosevelt University in Chicago, The Farmer School of Business at Miami University of Ohio, and St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. Read more about our support for college programs here.