Q2’2021 Career Advancement Day: ERA Launches Charity Art Exhibition to Empower Children and Youth from Needy Families.

Mr Desmond Tan, Minister of State for Home Affairs & Sustainability and the Environment, receiving a token of appreciation – a painting from the beneficiary of The Business Times Budding Artists Fund – from Mr Jack Chua, Chief Executive Officer of ERA Singapore. From Left to Right: Gary Lau, Chief Agency Director, Doris Ong, Chief Operating Officer, Desmond Tan, Minister of State for Home Affairs & Sustainability and the Environment, Jack Chua, Chief Executive Officer, Marcus Chu, Chief Operating officer and Kevin Lim, Chief Agency Director.

Mr Helmi Yusof (second from right), Deputy Editor (Lifestyle) of The Business Times and Genii Koh (far right), Board Member of TRCL receiving a S$20,000 mock cheque from Mr Desmond Tan (second from left), Minister of State for Home Affairs & Sustainability and the Environment, in giving back to the community, together with Jack Chua (far left), Chief Executive Officer of ERA Singapore and Gary Lau (Back row), Chief Agency Director of ERA Singapore.

Keynote address by Guest of Honour Mr Desmond Tan, Minister of State for Minister of State for Home Affairs & Sustainability and the Environment.

CEO Jack Chua announcing the launch of the charity art exhibition, dubbed Earth/Sea 2021 at the Q2’2021 Career Advancement Day.
The exhibition runs from 5 May to 31 July 2021 at Everyday@ERA and aims to provide opportunities in discovering and developing their creative potentials.

SINGAPORE, 5 May 2021 – ERA Singapore (ERA) held its Q2’21 Career Advancement Day virtually today with the opening of a charity art exhibition titled Earth/Sea 2021. The virtual event was graced by Mr Desmond Tan, Minister of State for Home Affairs & Sustainability and the Environment, and attended by over 8,000 trusted advisers in Singapore.

Organised in tandem with The Business Times Budding Artists Fund (BT BAF) and Living with Art, the charity art exhibition features over 48 paintings by 32 children and youth who are the beneficiaries of BT BAF. The purpose of the art exhibition is to celebrate life where every person regardless of race, language, or religion lives in harmony and draw awareness of the social issues that may affect our environment.

Specially curated for the newly renovated Everyday@ERA — the largest co-working space for real estate salespersons in Singapore — this exhibition with the message of empowerment aptly aligns with ERA’s vision to become the real estate company of choice for its clients and real estate salespersons. ERA trusted advisers can visit the art exhibition at the lobby of Everyday@ERA, from 5 May to 31 July 2021.

To support, ERA trusted advisers can scan the QR code next to each painting and enter a desired donation amount (above the minimum price) to acquire the painting. The amount raised will be donated to BT BAF that reaches out to financially disadvantaged children and youth between the ages of 6 to 19. The initiative enables them to learn, discover and nurture their talents, developing their artistic techniques while cultivating social and emotional competencies.

“ERA’s quarterly Career Advancement Day has always been to recognise our teammates’ hard work and celebrating milestones. Today is made extra meaningful with the Earth/Sea 2021 charity art exhibition, where we get to empower the future generation and help them develop their creative potentials, “said Jack Chua, Chief Executive Officer of ERA. “We are humbled to be able to partake and provide the underprivileged a platform to shine while bettering the community, a mantra that we hold dear and practise in ERA.”

Prior to this, ERA has also raised S$20,000 in less than two months from their recent fundraising campaign, ‘1,000 Goodie Bags’ for BT BAF Children for Children (CFC) 2021 initiative. Together, ERA staff and advisers hope to make this Children’s Day a special one for 1,000 children from underprivileged families, with each of them receiving a goodie bag during their outing to celebrate Children’s Day.

ERA Q2’21 Career Advancement Day

In celebration of crossing over 8,000 ERA trusted advisers, the Q2’21 Career Advancement Day marked ERA’s history as the first quarterly conference to celebrate the achievements of the Top 400 Achievers, up from 350 in the previous quarterly conference, as well as recognising the hard work and successes of its leadership team with the Top Leaders awards.

The quarterly conference also featured a keynote address by Mr Desmond Tan, Minister of State for Home Affairs & Sustainability and the Environment as well as a special Redesigning Real Estate Forum: Looking Back, Charting Forward – a dialogue session with five invited developers and moderated by Doris Ong, Chief Operating Officer (Project Marketing) of ERA. This was a follow-up session from the success of last year’s Redesigning Real Estate Forum conducted during the Circuit Breaker period, where attendees gained exclusive insights from — Adeline Ong (City Developments Limited); Koon Wai Leong (Hoi Hup Realty); Tan Zhiyong (MCC Land); Eugene Lim (Oxley Holdings) and Yen Chong (QingJian Realty).

In addition, ERA’s senior management provided further insights in their speeches:

• How the real estate industry is shaping up in the post-Covid world
• Updates on agency’s sustainability and growth strategies, as well as its latest tech tools updates
• Upholding professional standards in the new norm real estate economy
• Updates on its latest $10 million Covid-19 Business Support Plan grant to support its network of trusted advisers
• The announcement of ERA’s participation in the upcoming Singapore Property Show 2021, starting from 22–30 May 2021
• Presented the International Award Circle of Success, awarded by its global franchisor from the United States of America, ERA Real Estate, to:
  • 2020 Leaders’ Circle Top Sales Associate – Kavin Kuah, Branch Division Director of ERA
  • 2020 Leaders’ Circle Top Selling Broker – Chris Chen, Advisory Group Division Director of ERA

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