FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP

The CREW Boston Educational Foundation, established in 2009 as a 501c3 charitable foundation of CREW Boston, is a fund that will support the CREW Boston Educational Foundation Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded to a female student entering her junior or senior year of undergraduate school or entering or enrolled in a graduate program at an accredited college or university based in New England. The student must demonstrate an interest in pursuing a career in the commercial real estate industry through her course studies and/or internships in a commercial real estate firm

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2020 FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP

The 2020 Scholarship Application is available for any female student entering her junior or senior year of undergraduate school or entering or enrolled in a graduate program at an accredited college or university based in New England. The student must demonstrate an interest in pursuing a career in the commercial real estate industry through her course studies and/or internships in a commercial real estate firm. The 2020 Scholarship, that will be awarded in May 2020, is expected to be at least one $10,000. The deadline to apply for the 2020 Scholarship is February 28, 2020.

To download the 2020 CREW Boston Educational Foundation Scholarship application, click here.

To learn more about the CREW Network Scholarship, click here.

From Christine Flaherty, 2018-2019 President of the CREW Boston Educational Foundation, Inc.

Once again, we were very fortunate to have a strong group of candidates for the Educational Foundation annual scholarship from both undergraduate and graduate colleges and universities throughout New England. This year, thanks to the support we have received, we were able to award one $10,000 scholarship and two $5,000 scholarships. The CREW Boston Educational Foundation Scholarship recipients has shown us that they have an amazing work ethic and drive to succeed.

Merida Kepnes was drawn to commercial real estate watching economic development occur around her – The Merrimack Premium Outlets. She was anxious to learn more about the real estate industry.  Putting herself through college and adding to her student loans – Merida, began interning at KeyBank, and has been working closely with existing members of CREW Boston including Hayley Suminski.  Her focus has been the multifamily sector; and led her to author a research paper “Boston’s Affordable Housing Crisis and How Multifamily Real Estate Capital can Contribute to the Solution”.  Her letters of recommendation spoke of her poise and efforts to learn as much as possible about Commercial Real Estate.  One of her professors described her as bright, thoughtful, eager to learn and eager to apply her keen analytical ability to real estate development.

Shawna O’Neil is currently a working towards her Masters in Public Policy at Northeastern University.  She currently works as a Lending Assistant at the Massachusetts Housing Partnership and commutes daily from her home in Providence, RI! Ms. O’Neil is the first in her family to obtain an undergraduate degree and knows first-hand of the struggles of housing costs.  She is described as driven, smart, ambitious and tireless – someone with a bright future ahead of her.  She is committed to pursuing a career in Commercial Real Estate and we look forward to having her with us in CREW Boston.

Sienna McKenzie Flynn is currently working towards her Master of Architecture degree from Wentworth Institute of Technology. McKenzie is known to several folks in the room who have helped introduce her to the world of Commercial Real Estate. Her first architecture internship was courtesy of her relationships with Andra Foster and Allison Rojas. Allison describes her as: Driven, smart, focused, a team player and extremely talented McKenzie is looking forward to continuing to grow the relationships she has started here at CREW Boston.

We are thrilled to award the 2019 CREW Boston Educational Foundation scholarships to these amazing women and the future of commercial real estate.

Please join me in congratulating the 2019 CREW Boston Educational Foundation Scholarship Recipient Merida Kepnes, Shawna O'Neil and Sienna McKenzie Flynn

Past CREW Boston Educational Foundation Scholarship Recipients
2018 - Kelen Araujo
2017 - Kimberley McKenna & Kelly Yates
2016 - Rachel Brewster & Michaela Gross
2015 - Roma Patel & Wajuha Qureshi
2014 - Christine Kaczyniski
2013 - Emma Tuohy
2012 - Jennifer Wong
2011 - Elizabeth DiLorenzo
2010 - Mary Long

Upcoming Events

Moving Forward – Conversations on Evolving Construction Sites and Workplace Changes
June 2, 2020, 11:00 AM - June 2, 2020, 11:45 AM
Zoom
Boston MA

Join our panel from the CREW Development Project Management Group as we discuss the changes they are seeing on site and the implementation of new processes and innovations with the start of phase 1 of the state’s reopening plan.
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Coffee with CREW - CREW Network Has a LATTE to Offer...Find out How to Make it Work for You!
June 5, 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
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Boston MA

Join our CREW Network Delegate Karen Hurd for a virtual meet up to discuss ways to leverage your CREW Network membership. CREW Network Has a LATTE to Offer...Find out How to Make it Work for You!
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CREW Boston Annual Meeting
June 11, 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Zoom (details emailed out morning of the meeting)
Boston MA

Join CREW Boston for our 2019-2020 virtual Annual Meeting as we hear from Alison Levine on her insight on how to navigate these uncertain times, just as she had to navigate her trip across the Antarctic and Mount Everest.
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Prior Events

Personal Financial Wellness & Education

The Rising Leaders were fortunate to have Tracy Welch, Vice President and Investment Counselor and Laura Godine, Vice President and Director of Wealth Management from Eaton Vance educate our group on personal finance. Tracy spoke on topics of active vs. passive investing, compound interest, asset allocation, as well as retirement planning. For the second part of the evening, Laura stressed the importance of wealth planning through health care proxies, powers of attorneys, wills, trust, §529 plans and charitable planning. Tracy and Laura provided clear guidelines and examples that left attendees with the knowledge and inspiration to better prepare themselves financially. This was the second annual collaboration with WWIRE (Wellness for Women in Real Estate) and keeping with the theme of health and wellness, nutritious refreshments were graciously provided by Eastdil Secured and Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company – National Commercial Services.

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Carbon-Neutral Boston 2050: How will Commercial Real Estate Respond?

Members attended the Public Strategies Committee’s January 2020 breakfast to hear about the Boston newly released Climate Action Plan 2019 Update with ambitious strategies to put Boston on track to meet the City’s goal to be carbon neutral by 2050. Alison Brizius, Director of Climate and Environmental Planning for the City of Boston described the action plan and the strategies proposed, especially those that involve commercial real estate such as building planning, design and operations. It was a lively event with the attendees asking questions and contributing to the discussion through the presentation.
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2020 Outlook: The Changes to Come in the Year and Decade Ahead

At January's luncheon, Ben Breslau, Chief Research Officer, Americas of JLL spoke about big themes impacting the commercial real estate industry in the next decade.

Some pearls of wisdom from Ben: 1.) Organizational agility will be a critical factor to getting ahead of the competition. 2.) Investors are increasingly concerned with the environmental and societal impact of their investing. 3.) Elements that maximize human performance and engagement (lighting, acoustics, air quality, etc.) are becoming a differentiating factor in attracting the next tenant or employee.
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