Our Active REALTORS Care® Donation Campaigns and Portals:
While the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) does not have any active national disaster relief fundraising campaigns running at this time, we do have REALTORS Care® donation portals available for the following standing funds of the Canadian Red Cross:
Canadian Disaster Relief Fund
International Disaster Relief Fund
Canadian Wildfire Fund
We encourage REALTORS® and friends to consider donating to these standing funds to help the Canadian Red Cross address preparedness, immediate relief, and long-term recovery support where and when it is needed the most. Click the links above to learn more.
REALTORS® Supporting Communities through Disaster Relief Campaigns
The REALTOR® community has shown, time and time again, when large-scale disasters strike, they are keen to come together and raise funds for those impacted. Since 2010, REALTORS® across Canada have banded together and raised more than $2.4 million for disaster victims via the Canadian Red Cross.
CREA and the Canadian REALTOR® community trust our partners at the Canadian Red Cross to respond quickly to disasters and emergencies across Canada; provide food, clothing and shelter to those whose lives have been turned upside down; and help communities build resilience in the face of climate change.
About CREA’s National Disaster Relief Approach
In 2024, the CREA Board of Directors approved changes to our association’s National Disaster Relief Practice, based on the recommendations of its ESG Committee.
Our updated practice stipulates that CREA will help communities across Canada recover from increasingly frequent and intense natural disasters—such as heat waves, floods, storms, and wildfires—by automatically launching national REALTORS Care® fundraising campaigns on behalf of our members in support of all new domestic Canadian Red Cross appeals. To avoid competing with domestic appeals and ensure quick and efficient action, CREA will not launch campaigns specific to international appeals moving forward.
When campaigns are launched, the Canadian Red Cross creates REALTORS Care®-branded donation portals for use by REALTORS® and friends, which allow us to track the amount of funds raised. CREA notifies the REALTOR® association community and our members of any new campaigns via email and social media.
In addition, CREA will maintain standing REALTORS Care® donation portals for those members interested in supporting the Canadian Red Cross’ disaster relief efforts in response to all-hazard events within Canada and around the world.
Our Past Campaigns
CREA has launched national fundraising campaigns in support of the following Canadian Red Cross appeals:
- Alberta Wildfires (2024)
- British Columbia Fires (2023)
- Northwest Territories Fires (2023)
- Hawaii Wildfires (2023)
- Nova Scotia and Atlantic Canada Fires (2023)
- Alberta Fires (2023)
- Earthquake in Türkiye and Syria (2023)
- Hurricane Fiona (2022)
- Ukraine Humanitarian Crisis (2022)
- British Columbia Floods and Extreme Weather (2021)
- Hurricane Dorian (2019)
- Ottawa-Gatineau Tornadoes (2018)
- British Columbia Wildfires (2018)
- New Brunswick and British Columbia Floods (2018)
- British Columbia Wildfires (2017)
- Fort McMurray Wildfires (2016)
- Alberta Floods (2013)
- Thunder Bay Flood (2012)
- Japan Earthquake/Asia-Pacific Tsunami (2011)
- Haiti Earthquake (2010)
