Meet vanessa

About the founders

The last 20 years have brought success to both Vanessa and her clients, as her team has negotiated and closed new housing for hundreds and hundreds of families, amounting to well over $500,000,000 in sales. Currently, PPG is the #1 Real Estate team for Maplewood/South Orange, which simply means that Vanessa’s unique “P7” plan for home selling is winning! Years ago, Vanessa appeared in two seasons of the real estate show “Bought & Sold” on HGTV, where she became a recognizable face for honest and ethical real estate practices, always putting others FIRST. Her sales goals are important because they help her reach as many people as possible with service that is fair, honest, ethical and at a concierge-level but just as important is her “giving goal”.


Vanessa has a mission/vision to give back to her community in ways that have a lasting impact. Pollock Properties Group has raised and donated over $350,000 in the last decade to local charities, community events, global initiatives, and her family's very own Pollock Arts Initiative (formerly the Vanessa Pollock Music Initiative). Vanessa and the team hope to increase the giving every year to come. On a national level, Vanessa is the creator of the #CareServeGive business model and teaches, trains and speaks to audiences of all sizes about how to grow a profitable business by being servant-hearted, community-focused and generosity-based. On a personal level, Vanessa, her Broadway-Star husband Charlie and 2 of their 3 children reside in South Orange, NJ, after having lived in the East Village of NYC, Downtown Jersey City, and Maplewood NJ. Their oldest grown child is a musician based out of Los Angeles.

The Pollock Arts Initiative began in 2014 in partnership with the Achieve Foundation.

The Pollock Arts Initiative (formerly known as the Vanessa Pollock Music Initiative) is a fund that helps :

1. Repair/add to the Music Instrument Inventory for the entire SOMA School District.
2. Provide scholarship funds to in-need students, for the rental of band/orchestra instruments.
3. Provide private music instruction and instruments to in-need, prodigious students. Hundreds and hundreds of children are impacted by the Initiative every year through instruments, lessons, encouragement and acknowledgement.  .

In addition, the fund will supplement Achieve Foundation funding of grant requests related to visual and performing arts, and may be used to help maintain the District's inventory of musical instruments and other arts-related equipment and supplies. Through the Initiative, scholarship awards for advanced training may be offered to Columbia High School students who demonstrate exceptional talent and are recommended by SOMSD music and arts department faculty. Awards are tailored to students’ specific needs for private instruction, classes and/or professional quality instruments/art equipment.

 

POLLOCKPALOOZA

You're invited to pollockpalooza! – A Music Festival to Benefit the Achieve Foundation’s Pollock Arts Initiative on Saturday, November 23, 2024, from 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM.

The event will take place at The Woodland, located at 60 Woodland Rd, Maplewood, NJ. A $60 donation serves as the cover charge and includes three BEER tickets. 21+. Food trucks will be on-site, offering a variety of food for purchase. Enjoy live performances by Essex Funk Collective, alongside Ten Four, Water Towers, and the Local Heroes.This event is proudly sponsored by Matt Keane, VP of Rate and Pollock Properties Group, in partnership with the Achieve Foundation. Don’t miss this incredible evening of music and community support! #pollockpalooza #PAI #MusicFestival#MaplewoodNJ #SouthOrange #LiveMusic


PRESS ABOUT POLLOCK ARTS INITIATIVE EVENTS AND EFFORTS:

 
 

DECEMBER 1, 2023

"LIGHT UP THE HOLIDAYS"

10th HOLIDAY CONCERT WITH 'CHARLIE POLLOCK & FRIENDS

Pollock Properties Group and Guaranteed Rate's Matt Keane proudly present the much-anticipated annual holiday concert, hosted by Broadway star Charlie Pollock and Friends. Set to take place on Friday, December 1, 2023, at 639 Mountain Avenue, Springfield, NJ, this event is not just a musical celebration but also a heartfelt initiative benefiting the Vanessa Pollock Music Initiative.

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TOGETHER

"Charlie Pollock & Friends" Broadway-studded Holiday Concert!

"Charlie Pollock & Friends" brought down the house with an exciting family-friendly night of holiday music & cheer! This incredible night was co-sponsored by Pollock Properties Group of Livian at Keller Williams and Matt Keane of Guaranteed Rate Mortgage.

 
 

DECEMBER 2021

"DEAR LOVE"

A HOLIDAY CONCERT WITH 'CHARLIE POLLOCK & FRIENDS

DEAR LOVE", a Holiday Concert with 'Charlie Pollock & Friends' Broadcast from Renaissance Church in New Jersey, co-sponsored by the Pollock Properties Group of Keller Williams & Matt Keane of Guaranteed Rate Mortgage

DECEMBER 2020

“Home for the Holidays” A concert event benefiting the Vanessa Pollock Music Initiative

[December 18, 2020 Maplewood, NJ]

Christmas is a day to celebrate birth, hope, joy, giving, wonder, and food. And decorations. Always food and decorations. AND all of us Pollock Properties Group are sending you great big HUGS wrapped in gorgeous bows.

DECEMBER 2019

Holiday Concert Raises Over $14,000 for Achieve’s Vanessa Pollock Music Initiative

Charlie Pollock & Friends “kicked down the door to the holiday season” at the Columbia High School Auditorium on Sunday night, while raising money (over $14,000!) for the Achieve Foundation’s “Vanessa Pollock Music Initiative” (VPMI). The December 8 Holiday Concert featured Broadway and TV star Charlie Pollock, who has appeared in The Good Wife as well as numerous Broadway shows (most recently Pretty Woman and David Bowie’s Lazarus).

OCTOBER 2019

Charlie Pollock & Friends “kicked down the door to the holiday season” at the Columbia High School Auditorium on Sunday night, while raising money (over $14,000!) for the Achieve Foundation’s “Vanessa Pollock Music Initiative” (VPMI).

The December 8 Holiday Concert featured Broadway and TV star Charlie Pollock, who has appeared in The Good Wife as well as numerous Broadway shows (most recently Pretty Woman and David Bowie’s Lazarus). Mr. Pollock was joined on stage by talented local friends including: Kevin Kern (Wicked, Les Mis, Finding Neverland), Becky Gulsvig (Come From Away, Beautiful, Legally Blonde), David Josefsberg (Beetlejuice, The Prom), and Elizabeth Welch (Phantom of the Opera). The singers were backed by more of Mr. Pollocks “friends,” who also happen to be world-class professional musicians.

NOVEMBER 2018

Achieve’s Vanessa Pollock Music Initiative Celebrates Talented Student Musicians On the morning of November 28th, there were some very warm hearts in the Columbia High School cafeteria as seven teacher-nominated high school students excitedly accepted their 2018-2019 scholarships for private music instruction and/or professional grade instruments.

In addition to Mr. Manno, representatives and board members from Achieve, and CHS Principal Dr. Kalisha Morgan, some significant supporters and donors were in attendance, including members of the Pollock Properties Group and the founders of the SOMA Brewing Co., who recently donated $7,500 to the initiative after their successful Oktoberfest at the Woodland inaugural event.

OCTOBER 2018

Strap on those lederhosen and get ready for Maplewood's first annual Oktoberfest! On Saturday, October 6th 2018, The SOMA Brewing Company in partnership with Maplewood Office of Cultural Affairs, and Pollock Properties Group of Keller Williams hosted a fun filled family friendly event including Live Music, Awesome Food, Craft Beer, Arts/Crafts, and Much Much More!

The Oktoberfest was FREE to enter and and ALL PROCEEDS from the drinks benefit the Vanessa Pollock Music Initiative in conjunction with The Achieve Foundation. We are all proud to report that $7,500 was raised for the Music Initiative!! Thank you SOMA BREWING CO!

THANK YOU FOR HELPING MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN OUR COMMUNITY!