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From Adoption to Major Orangewood Supporter

Plenty of people sell millions worth of luxury real estate in Orange County, but no one quite matches the personal story of the Oppenheim Groupโ€™s real estate agent Alexandra Rose.

She was adopted at age 5 from the Orangewood Childrenโ€™s Home in Orange. More recently, she was a reality TV star for three seasons and says sheโ€™s sold about $150 million of real estate.

Now at age 29, she is also giving back to the foundation that grew out of the original Orangewood home with a donation of $250,000.

โ€œI have a story there,โ€ she says with some understatement.

She says her biological parents were โ€œboth homeless drug addicts.โ€

โ€œThe state took me, and they gave me to Orangewood,โ€ she told the Business Journal on Nov. 22. The home is now called the Orangewood Children & Family Center, and itโ€™s run by the county.

Rose was adopted at Orangewood along with four brothers, โ€œall from the same biological mom.โ€

After her adoptive dad passed away, her adoptive mother and the kids moved to Texas, before Southern California lured her back home at age 18.

Next chapter: her career that started five years ago. She is a real estate agent with the Newport Beach office of The Oppenheim Group.

$250,000 Donation to Orangewood Foundation

Despite moves and shifts, she has always remembered Orangewood, the 29th largest nonprofit in OC (see list, page 18). She says she has donated $250,000 of her own money to the Orangewood Foundation, which helps young people transition from foster care to independence.

โ€œI really want to help unfortunate youth in Orange County as much as I can because without Orangewood I would never have been adopted,โ€ she says. โ€œI want my clients to know, too, that Iโ€™m passionate about it.โ€

For now, her philanthropic efforts are focused on Orangewood, including events to raise donations from other supporters. She said her philanthropic efforts may expand in the future.

Orangewood is proud of the donations Rose has made.

โ€œThis experience in the foster care system shaped her commitment to philanthropy and led her to Orangewood Foundation. She understands the challenges that young people face when transitioning out of the foster care system, as well as the transformative impact that organizations like Orangewood Foundation have on a young personโ€™s life,โ€ says Nikki Dutra, the foundationโ€™s director of marketing and communications.

Empowering About 2,000 Youth Annually

Orangewood Foundation provides services for teens and young adults in Orange County. Each year, they empower approximately 2,000 youth, ages 16-24, through a comprehensive suite of services designed to address food and housing insecurity, mental health challenges, sex trafficking, substance abuse, poverty and the transition out of foster care.

Through her donations, โ€œAlexandra is a true champion of the Orangewood mission, ensuring every young person can reach their greatest potential,โ€ according to Dutra.

Sheยญ added: โ€œTo amplify her impact, she asked that the majority of her donations be utilized as matching funds to inspire others to give generously โ€” making her donations go even farther to support young people in Orange County.โ€

Loving SoCal, Leaving Texas

Southern California is obviously where Rose wants to be.

โ€œI just love it here, love living here. Iโ€™m passionate about real estate here in Orange County,โ€ Rose said. โ€œI wanted to get out of Texas.โ€

She was a star on the Netflix show โ€œSelling the OC.โ€

The show shows the challenges and drama facing The Oppenheim Groupโ€™s agents.

โ€œWhen I was doing it, it was pretty stressful,โ€ she says. โ€œIt just wasnโ€™t really mentally that healthy for me. It took away from me actually doing real estate.โ€

She doesnโ€™t miss being on the show, though it has brought her some benefits via various brands on Instagram.

Oppenheim says Roseโ€™s โ€œprofessional experience in sales and client service ensures that her clients receive personalized guidance and can trust in her expertise, knowledge and patience.โ€

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Sonia Chung
Sonia Chung
Sonia Chung joined the Orange County Business Journal in 2021 as their Marketing Creative Director. In her role she creates all visual content as it relates to the marketing needs for the sales and events teams. Her responsibilities include the creation of marketing materials for six annual corporate events, weekly print advertisements, sales flyers in correspondence to the editorial calendar, social media graphics, PowerPoint presentation decks, e-blasts, and maintains the online presence for Orange County Business Journalโ€™s corporate events.
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