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What do real estate agents and gardeners have in common?
What do real estate agents and gardeners
have in common? 
In Crofton, Maryland, the agents and staff at Long & Foster Real Estate and the members of Crofton Village Garden Club come together to build holiday gift bags for deployed troops. We call this joint effort Operation Christmas.
It all began when I read about Operation Give, a non-profit organization that sends overseas everything from Christmas stockings for the troops to soccer balls for kids. Thanks to the generosity of FedEx, donors could send items to Operation Give without any shipping cost and that organization, in turn, would distribute donated items around the world. 
The first carton of holiday gift bags was done in 2006 with help from agents in my small RE/MAX office. When I switched to Long & Foster two years later, agents and staff at the larger office enthusiastically embraced my project and we sent five cartons (100 gift bags) to Operation Give. Then I mentioned Operation Christmas at a garden club meeting and members started dropping off bags of goodies at my front door and handing me checks... enough to send double the number of gift bags the following year. (However, that was such a storage and logistical nightmare that now we're back to 100 per year with any extra donated items or ... more

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