FOUNDER AND CHAIR NICOLE STINSON
Nicole Stinson is an active real estate broker and partner at Estate Realty Group and has lived in the Santa Clarita Valley for over 30 years. Nicole understands the value of giving back, and investing time and energy in the community she lives in. Her depth of experience and knowledge of both the Santa Clarita Valley and all of Los Angeles is a valuable asset to clients. Nicole’s level of commitment to every one of her clients makes most of them clients for life. Nicole has chaired many nonprofit events and is the first to step up to help a charity in need, volunteering for something every month of the year, while running her own very successful Charity event for the 10th year in a row that she founded, the SCV Charity Chili Cook-Off. Nicole holds various other leadership positions in organizations across Southern California. Her leadership and organizational skills have won Nicole accolades from her peers as well as those who put their trust in her. The SCV Charity Chili Cook-Off is a Registered 5013c C4539208
“There are no paid postions with our charity for any of the work we do”.
CO- CHAIR STEVE PORTARO
Steve is an agent with Nicole and works as a team at Estate Realty Group selling real estate. They are also business partners with ERG Property Management, managing properties in the SCV and all around Los Angeles. Steve also manufactures his own line of furniture in LA selling all over the country. Steve has become very active in the Santa Clarita community giving back as much of his time as he can to all the active Charities in the SCV, and volunteering at many events. Steve also works full time on the SCV Charity Chili Cook-Off, from getting sponsors and handling all the graphics and marketing to the technological side of the event, building a new website every year, creating ticketing and Auction systems, forms for registration, automatizing the event and making sure that each year we raise our personal bar on the event to make it more successful for the charities and more fun and rewarding for the community.
