Legions Realty donates $3,500 to Second Chance Companions

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Battle Ground-based real estate firm Legions Realty has made a donation of $3,500 to local animal rescue Second Chance Companions (SCC) as part of their efforts to support the community.

Although usually concerned with getting people into homes, Legions has made a donation to an organization doing something similar, only this time with pets. Second Chance Companions was presented the check Oct. 31. 

The money donated was raised through Legions donating their business services as Realtors for organizations like SCC to auction off, Legions Realty Designated Broker/Owner Shannon Wyman said. A  percentage of a listing was donated, in this case resulting in $3,500.

The donation was the first of its kind to SCC, though Legions has done similar donations of service for groups such as Rocksolid Community Teen Center and high school booster clubs. She touched on how putting their services to work in fundraising in the community was more rewarding than simply making a profit.

“I would rather market doing charity than just marketing,” Wyman said. “Marketing doesn’t give you a whole lot, but charity does.”



Wyman is no stranger to SCC, as she has volunteered with the rescue for about 15 years. She has personally donated money and time in rehoming the animals that go through the program, explaining that growing up with her grandmother who worked for a pet assistance authority in Los Angeles meant she was a part of the rescue business from an early age.

Wyman likened her animal rescuing and work with Second Chance as her second job, making the connection to an agency like SCC evident — from returning lost dogs to their owners to fostering animals, sometimes from people going through a foreclosure, and freeing up the surrender fees at animal shelter that would hurt people even more going through a stressful time.

Having the ability to take in animals without charging the surrenderer fee was one of the ways SCC was helping to keep pets off the streets and into forever homes.

“I want people to know that there’s an option,” Wyman said.