Real Estate Charity Event to Benefit Students From Low-Income Families

Directors of Greenport’s community-service organization are teaming up with national real estate company Luxury Homes Group to benefit a high school scholarship this weekend and next weekend.

From 2 to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday both weekends, the public is welcome to tour a 7.6-acre Greenport property valued at $3,600,000 and located next to a nature preserve at the end of a cul-de-sac. The property includes deeded docking rights, a 2,400-square-foot guest house and a 1,000 square-foot artist's studio currently being used as a professional recording studio.

All the proceeds from a silent auction at the event will go to a Community Action Southold Town-funded scholarship called Girls Reach Academic Success Program geared to help local high school girls from low-income families who show academic promise gain acceptance into a four-year college.

The program provides year-round tutoring and assists each girl with college admissions. Currently, 30 girls from three North Fork school districts participate, according to the scholarship’s program director MaryAnn Duffy, who wrote the grant for the scholarship in March.

“This is the first time we’ve done some thing like this at CAST,” she said. “Luxury Homes goes into high-end, hard-to-sell estates with a huge marketing blitz but there is a philanthropic edge to what they are doing. We get a portion of the charity event, but if the house sells we get a portion of that as well to help these girls.”

Duffy added that up to 52 girls could benefit from the tutoring program.

“Many will be the first to in their families to attend college,” she said. “They just don’t have the guidance at home.”

The event is free, registration requested. If you would like more information and to register, please call 914-670-7055.