Debi Rolfing
After a 30-year career as a real estate broker and
developer, Debi Rolfing’s life has traveled full circle back to a simpler,
purer stage like the one that she cherished as a preschool teacher at Holy
Innocence when she and her husband Mark arrived in Maui in 1976. Today
Debi is dedicated to her volunteer work as a licensed foster mother. Her
primary focus is to foster newborns in her Maui and Montana homes while
they await adoption or reunification with their birthparents.
Debi and her husband Mark were licensed by the State of
Montana, Department of Public Health and Human Services, as youth foster
home parents in September of 1998 and by the State of Hawaii as youth
foster home parents in the summer of 1999.
For the past 10 years, Debi has provided over 10,000
hours of volunteer foster care to 24 newborns. While traveling with her
husband Mark on The PGA Tour, she volunteers her time in The PGA Tour
Family Center’s nursery caring for the professional’s children.
Debi received a six-year board appointment by Bishop
George Leo Thomas to the Board of Directors of Catholic Social Services of
Montana. She holds volunteer positions on the Board of Directors of
Glacier Center for Families of Kalispell, Montana, Maui Family Support
Services Board of Directors on Maui, Hawaii, and the Fore Adoption
Foundation Board of Directors.
Debi is an active member of the Hawaii Foster Parents
Association known as “It Takes an Ohana” and the Maui Foster Parent
Support Group. She also enjoys membership in Montana’s local foster parent
associations.
Real estate ownership, development and sales have been a
love of Debi’s for over 30 years. She has kept an active Broker’s license
in Hawaii after acquiring her real estate salesman’s license in 1978. In
1980 she earned her brokers’ license, opening her own firm, Rolfing
Realty. Since 1998, Debi has been associated with Kapalua Realty as a
Broker Associate.
Debi has achieved four prestigious real estate
designations: CIPS (Certified International Property Specialist), CRB
(Certified Real Estate Brokerage Manager), CRS (Certified Residential
Specialist), and GRI (Graduate Realtor Institute).
She has been accepted as a Candidate in the CCIM
(Certified Commercial Investment Member) Program with an approved resume
of over $100 million in sales in The Plantation at Kapalua Resort
development project.
As a Realtor Associate with Stapleton Associates in
Lahaina, Debi was awarded Top Producer-Salesman and Top Producer-Listing
Agent in 1978, in her first year in the real estate profession. After
opening her own firm, Rolfing Realty, Debi's sales in Kapalua, Maui,
Hawaii during the 1980's included 30 sales transactions at Kapalua Resort;
one being the highest recorded condominium sale on Maui.
Debi is also a member of the National Association of
Realtors (both United States and International Sections), Hawaii
Association of Realtors, Maui Board of Realtors, Women’s Council of
Realtors, Life Member of The Realtors Political Action Committee, and The
National Federation of Business & Professional Women's Clubs, Inc., and
Who’s Who in Real Estate.
Additional real estate memberships include the Hawaii
Developers Council, Graduate Realtor Institute, Aloha Hawaii and Maui
Chapters of Certified Residential Specialists, Residential Sales Council,
Real Estate Brokerage Managers Council, Commercial Investment Real Estate
Institute, Certified Commercial Investment Member-Hawaii Chapter, and
Hawaii International Section of the National Assn. of Realtors.
In early 1985, she and husband, Mark, formed Rolfing
Productions; a Maui based sports marketing company. The "one-of-its-kind"
operation on Maui marketed, televised, produced and organized prominent
golf and basketball tournaments for the Valley Isle. Tournaments such as
the Kapalua International, Kaanapali Classic, and Maui Classic grew into
major sporting events bringing professional sports attracting tourists to
Maui. Debi continued to serve on the Executive Committee of the
Lincoln-Mercury Kapalua International until the final year in 1997.
Debi is a board member emeritus of the J. Walter Cameron
Center, housing the majority of Maui's charities, which received over
$300,000 in proceeds during the years that Debi and Mark were in direct
ownership of the Kapalua International Golf Tournament. Their tournament
has grown into the PGA Tour’s Season Opening Event at Kapalua.
In October 1988, Debi, along with her husband Mark,
formed Rolfing Development Corporation, a General Partner of Rolfing
Partners. Rolfing Partners, through a joint venture with Kapalua Land
Company doing business as Plantation Club Associates, developed The
Plantation at Kapalua.
For 15 years, Debi restored the Kootenai Lodge in
northwest Montana. This National Historic Monument was the magnificent
summer retreat of two early Montana copper kings in the early 1920's.
Forty acres with approximately 1,500 feet of Swan River frontage and 1,500
feet of Swan Lake frontage, this property had 23 log structures ranging in
size from three-room cabins to the main lodge with its 36-foot ceiling and
14,000 square-foot great hall. This unique property's history and beauty
are being restored today.
Debi serves as a trustee for two charitable foundations.
As Trustee and Director of the Mark and Debi Rolfing Charitable
Foundation, she reviews and directs funds to several local and mainland
charities primarily helping children’s charities in the United States.
As a member of the Founding Board of the Vice
President's Residence Foundation, Debi assists in raising funds to
preserve the United States Naval Observatory built in 1893 which serves as
the official residence of the Vice President of the United States in
Washington DC.
Debi continues to work daily towards upgrading her
foster care ministry through financial support and education as well as
providing volunteer respite care to the adoptive parents of their newborns
after leaving Debi and Mark’s “cradle care” home.
Debi Rolfing’s Biography Fact Sheet
Primary focus is to foster newborns in her Maui and
Montana homes while they await reunification with their birthparents or
adoption.
1998 Licensed by the State of Montana Department of
Public Health and Human Services, as youth foster home parents.
1999 Completed 33 hours of P.R.I.D.E. (Parents’ Resource for Information,
Development and Education) training on Maui.
1999 Licensed by the State of Hawaii as youth foster home parents.
2000 Spring Session of Foster and Adoptive Parent Training in Kalispell,
Montana.
2002 Attended the Foster Parents Association Annual Education Conference
in Las Vegas.
2003 Certified graduate of “Keeping Children Safe and Families Strong”
2004 Montana State Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect Conference in Helena,
Montana
2006 “Protecting God’s Children” Certificate from National Catholic Rise
Retention Group
2007 Earned a certificate of completion in “Weaving a Community of
Prevention”.
1999-2009
Provided over 10,000 hours of
volunteer/emergency foster care to twenty-four (24) medically and in some
cases critically fragile newborns over the past ten years.
2009 Educational Classes Completed in Kalispell,
Montana June 2009
Certificate of Completion for Grandparenting Class
Certificate of Completion for Therapeutic Parenting Class
Certificate of Completion for Mommy & Me Class
Certificate of Completion for Infant Massage Class
Certificate of Completion for Childbirth Education Class
Certificate of Completion for Heartsaver Pediatric First Aid Class
Completed Advisory Board Strategic Planning Retreats and Board Trainings
for Maui Family Support Services on Maui, Catholic Social Services for
Montana, and Glacier Center for Families of Montana.
Licensed Grief Recovery Specialist
Trustee and Director of the Mark and Debi Rolfing Charitable Foundation
Board Member of Maui Family Support Services on Maui.
Board Member of Catholic Social Services of Montana
Board Member of Glacier Center for Families of Montana
Board Member of Fore Adoption Foundation of Arizona
Board Member emeritus of the J. Walter Cameron Center on Maui.
Past Board Member on Advisory Board for Family Concepts in Kalispell,
Montana
Member of NACAC/North American Council on Adoptable Children.
Member of National Foster Parent Association
Member of It Takes an Ohana formerly known as the Hawaii Foster Parents
Association
Member of the Maui Foster Parent Support Group
Volunteer in The PGA Tour Family Center Infant and Children’s Nursery
1978-2009
Active Hawaii Real Estate Salesman’s
License
1978 Top Producer-Salesman – Top Producer – Listing Agent Awards
1980-2009
Active Hawaii Real Estate Broker’s License
1980-1996
Owned Personal Realty Company – Rolfing
Realty
1997 Joined Kapalua Realty as a Broker Associate
Certified International Property Specialist
Designation -CIPS
Certified Residential Brokerage Manager Designation-CRB
Certified Residential Specialist Designation-CRS
Graduate, Realtor Institute Designation-GRI
Certified Commercial Investment Member Candidate-CCIM
Member of the Urban Land Institute-ULI
Member of the Urban Land Foundation - ULF
Member of the National Association of Realtors-NAR
Member of Hawaii Association of Realtors - HAR
Member of Realtor Association of Maui -RAM
Member of Women’s Council of Realtors – WCR
Member of Hawaii Developers Council - HDC
Member of the Graduate Realtor Institute - GRI
Member of Hawaii and Maui Chapters of Certified Residential Specialists
- CRS
Member of Residential Sales Council
Member of Real Estate Brokerage Managers Council
Member of Commercial Investment Real Estate Institute - CIREI
Member of Certified Commercial Investment Member-Hawaii Chapter - CCIM
Member of Hawaii International Section of the National Assn. of Realtors
- NAR
Member the National Federation of Business & Professional Women's Clubs,
Inc. – BPW/USA
1985 Formed Rolfing Productions, a Maui based sports
marketing company.
Televised, produced and organized prominent golf and basketball
tournaments.
Served on the Executive Committee of the
Lincoln-Mercury Kapalua International until the final year in 1997.
1988 Formed Rolfing Development Corporation, a General
Partner of Rolfing Partners. Rolfing Partners through a joint venture with
Kapalua Land Company developed The Plantation at Kapalua, a residential
golf resort on the island of Maui.
1990-2005
Owned and restored Kootenai Lodge in
northwest Montana, a national historic monument.
Member of the Founding Board of the Vice President's
Residence Foundation, in Washington, D.C.
