The National Association of REALTORS® Community Outreach Program provides grants and resources to support REALTOR® Associations’ efforts in addressing affordable housing challenges, community planning and development issues, revitalization opportunities, fair housing education, initiatives and activities.
The program provides a number of webinars throughout the year to assist associations on leveraging these grants to advance their community development, fair housing advocacy, engagement, and educational initiatives. Each webinar will provide valuable insight into funding levels, types of initiatives supported, eligible expenses, key points of contact and more.
Next Session
Enhancing Rural Development Initiatives: NAR’s Rural Outreach Grant
Date: June 17, 2025
Time: 2:00 pm ET/1:00 pm CT
Unlock the potential of your rural community with support from the NAR Rural Outreach Grant for state and local REALTOR® associations. Access funding for rural issues like broadband, well and septic, open space preservation and more, and hear successes from other associations.
Featuring:
- Summary of the Rural Outreach Grant
- Success Stories
- How to take your initiatives to the next level and affect policy
- Summary of additional grants and resources from the Community Outreach team
Previous Session:
Smart Growth Learning Lab
Recorded on: Wednesday, April 30
As advocates for property ownership and strong communities, your members are uniquely positioned to lead on smart growth issues. In this session we explained how NAR grants and resources can help your association champion key initiatives—from land use to housing opportunities. This session also helped participants to engage with peers, share ideas and gain tools that support their advocacy work.
This session featured:
- Strategies to advance smart growth and public policy initiatives.
- Breakout sessions to workshop your ideas with experts.
- Real-world success stories funded by NAR grants initiatives resources.
- Resources to help your association drive change.
