YOUR PROPERTY STANDS OUT THE MORE YOUR RESIDENTS DO.
People want to feel engaged and like their efforts matter. Similar to charity, engagement starts at home and we’re here to help your property shine by helping your residents use their gifts.
With support, your residents can find purpose, make friends and boost your bottom line as a result.
America is getting lonelier and facing a purpose crisis.
But here’s the sunnier side of that tale:
The meaning and friends that people aren’t finding at work, school or in retirement are available in spades in a vertical village, or a caring community for and by neighbors in multifamily housing. What’s more, people are free to experiment and use their gifts in ways that they choose to develop their neighborhoods.
“How did a rental community in a competitive market go from stagnating at 65% occupancy at best for years, to 95% occupancy in 18 months?
A key ingredient is creating ways for the talents of our residents to be seen.“
ROB LEIBREICH
CEO and president of Goodwin Living
We’re here to help turn people’s urge to contribute into success for you by helping neighbors in multifamily housing to form engaged communities—villages—around things that they care about.
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At an average of $3,872 per unit, rental turnovers are costly.
The good new is that friendships and purpose can help keep those costs down.
RealPage reports that multifamily housing dwellers are 8% more likely to renew their lease if they have just one friend in their property. Gallup reports that tying people’s contributions to an organizational purpose can reduce turnover by 32%. We’re proposing that dynamic also applies to renters in purposeful housing.
Our Village Activation Services are designed to help your property attract and retain residents by helping it stand out as a place where people come to make a difference.
Following a quick assessment to ensure that your property is village ready, our activation services will start with a $497 Jumpstart Package in which we’ll help residents to…
IDENTIFY VALUES
We’ll provide a tool to help residents hone in on what makes them tick.
CLARIFY PURPOSE
The tool will also help residents to tie their top value to a desired mission.
START PROJECTS
We’ll host 3 x 1-hr Zoom calls to coach residents in applying their gifts.
The Jumpstart Package is designed to help residents gain confidence and momentum with “quick wins” by doing small projects. We can design custom packages starting at $1497 for higher levels of activation.
If two event coordinators can produce benefits of around $188K a year, imagine the potential financial and social impacts of gift-based engagement.
Apartment Life houses a pair of event coordinators in multifamily properties to help create connections. They report adding about $188,154 in financial benefit a year to the average community through reduced turnover, increased leasing and value added for residents through an increased sense of community.
We seek to add tremendous benefits to renters and property owners alike by engaging multiple neighbors around the purpose of asset-based community development: creating prosperous and caring communities, or villages, based on what’s strong—not wrong—in neighborhoods.
MEET YOUR ACTIVATOR:
Dr. Mary-Elizabeth Harmon is a longtime village maker, as well as scientist turned storyteller, caregiver and founder of A Village for Life.
A graduate of MIT and The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Mary-Elizabeth left the laboratory as a virus researcher and later joined the Office of Inspector General in the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. There, she evaluated programs and wrote data-driven stories (i.e., reports) to make recommendations for their improvement. Her work has been used for Congressional testimonies, and she is a two-time winner of the Inspector General’s Exceptional Achievement Award.
A Michigander raised in Nairobi, Kenya, Mary-Elizabeth has been making informal villages since returning to the U.S. for college. At MIT, she won an award for contributions to extracurricular life on campus. At Hopkins, she won an award for professionalism and community leadership. As a neighbor, Mary-Elizabeth served on the board of the Atlanta Downtown Neighborhood Association and was an active community builder in her former home at the Healey Condominiums. There, she was a dubbed “The Healey Communicator” by the board of directors.