Front Porch Realty - Need FREE Help? FVHS offering interns!

Need FREE Help? FVHS offering interns!

ATTENTION Fuquay-Varina BUSINESSES:

Did you know our own Fuquay-Varina High School has ready, willing, and able Juniors and Seniors looking for internships at local businesses. The interns will receive high school credit for helping your business and invaluable professional experience! FRONT PORCH REALTY is proud to introduce their Spring Semester 2017 star intern; Owen Findley. Owen helps in our office 4 times a week with marketing, general administrative duties and anything else we need. Owen doesn’t hesitate to take initiative and has contributed great social media ideas to help Front Porch Realty grow.

THANK YOU Owen!

Please contact Dr. Emily Jessee at FVHS for more information.

Email: ejessee@wcpss.net

What’s a Bengal Backer?

Fuquay-Varina Bengals

Do you own a business or work in Fuquay-Varina? Did you know our Fuquay-Varina schools are in need of our help in any small way we can give? The F-V Business Alliance is a group of Business Owners and School Personnel that meet every month to brainstorm bringing together the business expertise and the classroom along with the classroom to the business environment!

F-V Business Alliance Meeting Dates

No time to attend ANOTHER meeting every month? That’s alright! Please take 30 seconds to join the F-V Business Alliance as a Bengal Backer. Here you will sign up to receive emails detailing where you can donate your precious gift of time, or money. No experience is necessary, and most volunteer needs are only about 30 minutes. Some examples of what’s needed are having a mock interview with students preparing for a competition, hosting a car wash for a fundraiser, or donating food for an event. Of course, we would LOVE to have you at our next meeting, December 15, 8:30 am at FVHS. I promise, you will be even more rewarded than the students!

What it takes to be a Bengal Backer

Celebrating 20 years of helping the people of Fuquay-Varina and the surrounding area! Please share our name with your co-workers, employees, relatives and neighbors and please think of Front Porch Realty as YOUR LOCAL real estate professionals! Laura Moody Broker/Owner Front Porch Realty

It takes a village!

August was “back to school month”. So Front Porch Realty hosted a school supply drive to help local Fuquay Varina schools and the many area teachers that buy extra supplies for their students in need. Originally this was a challenge to our fellow Fuquay Varina businesses to collect what they could, get a little free publicity, and then I would deliver the supplies to our FVMS and FVHS counselors. To our pleasant surprise, we ended up getting several visitors from within the community. Many of them wanted absolutely no recognition for their donations and were thrilled to find a place where they could drop off extra supplies and know that local families would benefit! We collected book bags, calculators, markers, lots of paper and notebooks and even cash donations that got turned into Walmart gift cards. I wish you could have seen the looks on the counselors faces and heard their gratitude when I brought in 4 huge tubs of supplies to our schools. I have promised the schools that we will do it again. Watch Facebook this winter for details and THANK YOU Fuquay Varina for supporting local schools.

FVHS Students move onto National Level!

What an honor it has been to be able to work with the awesome young adults of Fuquay Varina High School’s Future Business Leaders of America group. After competing at the regional level, thirteen of these bright students have just moved on to state level at the NC State FBLA conference in Greensboro. A record nine of these students have placed in their competitive events and qualified for the national competition in Chicago June 29-July 2, 2015. Please join FRONT PORCH REALTY in helping to fund their trip to Chicago. Contact Mr. Bob Lee, M.Ed., Special Populations Coordinator, FBLA Advisor, FVHS, 919-557-2561, rlee@wcpss.net for details on how you can contribute. The success of these bright students says so much for their leadership advisor, Mr. Bob Lee. Mr. Lee has continually increased the FBLA membership at the high school along with going above and beyond to help his students compete at that high level. How fortunate are both these hard working kids and FV High School, to have Mr. Lee’s dedication!

Laura McCorry with FVHS students at the FBLA’s State Competion.

Front Porch Realty is giving back, and you can too!

Hello Fellow Business Owners of Fuquay Varina,

As many of you may know, I have a passion for helping the schools and children of our community. Recently, I responded to an announcement in one of the latest Chamber Thursday Forecasts about Fuquay Varina High School needing some help with their Future Business Leaders of America Club. I had the PLEASURE of meeting with their group two weeks ago to talk about resume writing and interviewing. I learned of how much these High School students would love to do an unpaid (or paid!) internship with a Fuquay Varina business. I will be offering an internship with my company in the Spring and would love to see some more local business owners do the same. These kids are extremely intelligent and mature and I believe any of them would be an asset to any of your businesses. If you can find a way to offer any kind of internship in the coming year please get in touch with the FBLA chair, Mr. Lee. Mr. Lee and his group have been a pleasure to work with and I know you will find it as rewarding as I have!

Bob Lee, M.Ed.

Special Populations Coordinator

FBLA Advisor

Fuquay-Varina High School

http://fvhs.wcpss.net/

919-557-2561

rlee@wcpss.net

Thank you in advance for your time, Laura