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REALTOR® Party Corporate Ally Program

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Mission

Create an unprecedented advocacy partnership between the National Association of REALTORS® and our extended real estate corporate family by raising voluntary soft dollar (corporate) funds to invest in issue and candidate campaigns at the local, state and federal levels in order to promote an environment conducive to buying, selling and owning real estate.     

The Corporate Ally Program

The Corporate Ally Program is designed to provide our extended real estate family with the flexibility of investing their corporate dollars to support the REALTOR® Party Issues and/or the REALTOR® Champions Independent Expenditures Candidate programs.  The 2015-2016 Corporate Ally Program fundraising goal is $3,000,000.  The primary voluntary funding sources to achieve this goal are from the extended real estate corporate family, including:

  • Multiple Listing Services
  • Real estate MLS business partners and advisors
  • Real estate brokerages (large and small)
  • Business affiliates and vendors of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®.
  • Institutes, Societies and Councils

Why Do The REALTOR® Associations Need The Corporate Ally Program?

2016 Corporate Investor Council Chair Marbury Little has the answer.

How Will Contributions Be Invested?

Investors in the Corporate Ally Programs Will Have Three Choices in Directing Their Investment to Issues and Candidates at the Federal, State and Local Levels:

Issues Support – Public policy issues can significantly impact how your company conducts business. The Corporate Ally Program allows investors to target their investment to support or oppose the issues that are important to the real estate community. Mortgage Interest deductibility, patent trolls, transfer taxes and even sign placement are all issues where Corporate Ally investments can and do make a difference.

  • Corporate Ally investments for issues will be split equally between the NAR Public Issues Advocacy Program and the NAR State and Local Issues Mobilization Program.
  • Investments provided to the NAR Public Issues Advocacy Program are used to support our federal issues at the grassroots level. These funds ARE NOT directed to support federal issues in any specific state but they are targeted in states or congressional districts of key members of Congress.
  • Investments provided to the NAR State and Local Issues Mobilization Program are allocated for use within the state of the investor’s choosing. The investor can also choose to mix their investment between states. These investments will only be used for issues in the state identified by the investor.

Candidate Support – Elected officials set the agenda for the issues that are important to REALTORS® and their businesses. Corporate Ally investors can target their investment to ensure REALTOR® Champions are elected to city hall, the county commission and all the way up to the halls of the U.S. Congress.

  • Corporate Ally investments will be split equally between the NAR Federal Independent Expenditure (IE) Program and the NAR State and Local IE Program.
  • Investments provided to the NAR Federal IE Program will be used to support candidates for the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives. These funds ARE NOT directed to support candidates of any specific state, but rather to candidates for federal office identified for NAR IE support.
  • Investments provided to the NAR State and Local IE Program can be allocated for use within the state(s) of the investors choosing. These investments will only be used for candidate races in the state(s) identified by the investor.

Issue and Candidate Support – Both candidate and issue support are important for the success of REALTORS®. The Corporate Ally Program investor can choose to invest in both candidates and issues. The issues important to real estate and the elected officials that control those issues.

  • Corporate Ally investments will be split equally between candidates and issues.
  • The issue portion of the investment will be split equally between the NAR Public Issues Advocacy Program and the NAR State and Local Issues Mobilization Program.
  • The candidate portion of the investment will be split equally between the NAR Federal IE Program and the NAR State and Local IE Program.

In other words, the Corporate Ally Program allows the investor to determine the best way for their investment to be utilized!

For more information:
Paula Martino
(202) 383-1156
pmartino@realtors.org

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®
500 New Jersey Ave NW
Washington, DC 20001