Giving money to help someone you may never meet is both selfless and charitable, especially when that someone is a child in need. The CHML/Y108 Christmas Tree of Hope is not the only charitable cause you will hear about this Christmas, but it is the only one of its kind that is totally focused on the betterment of life for children in the Hamilton-Burlington area.

The REALTORS® Association of Hamilton-Burlington (RAHB) Christmas Charity Auction is back and celebrating its 22nd year raising funds for the CHML/Y108 Children's Fund - Christmas Tree of Hope.

Many organizations rely on the generousity of sponsors to help them deliver Christmas to needy families. But what happens when, at the last minute, a sponsor is unable to deliver on their initial promise to help. For one local charity organization, that reality came true in 2008. At the last minute, a sponsor pulled their financing of a scheduled “Breakfast with Santa” event. Organizers were faced with the very real possibility of having to call the families of 500 inner-city children, hand-picked by school teachers who were all-too-aware of the levels of poverty in which the children lived. Enter the CHML/Y108 Children’s Fund. An emergency appeal to the Christmas Tree of Hope campaign resulted in a donation of $10,000 to the event, a donation made possible through the generous support of the REALTORS® Association of Hamilton-Burlington Charity Auction. Without the direct support of the RAHB charity fundraiser, the CHML/Y108 Children’s Fund would not be able to help over 30 organizations each year, many of which lack the infrastructure to fundraise.

We are asking you, today, to help give a child a Christmas by making a simple donation. Your donation will help feed a child at Christmas and ensure a gift or two is under the tree. Keep the sparkle in a child's eye on Christmas. All the funds raised stay in the Hamilton-Burlington area and 100% of every dollar raised goes to the children. Please help those children in need this Christmas and give.

You can make a difference.

For more information about becoming a donor click here or to become an event sponsor visit here. Since 1988, the REALTORS® Association of Hamilton-Burlington has raised over half a million dollars for this great charity.

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