Community Programs

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What you need to know about accommodating an employee’s mental health condition in the office.

Tactical Urbanism: the low-cost, short-term, nimble methodology for kick starting and advancing long-term projects related to street safety, public space, and more.

It’s a new year and it’s time to think about what you can to make your community a better place to live and to reflect back on how REALTORS® did just that.

“REALTORS^® don’t only sell homes; they sell neighborhoods and communities. REALTORS^®aid in improving and revitalizing neighborhoods with smart growth initiatives, helping create walkable, urban centers, which...

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This charitable foundation is dedicated to providing housing-related assistance to victims of disasters.

More and more organizations are seeing the value of placemaking and integrating it into their business models. The Urban Land Institute (ULI) has undertaken a placemaking project as part of their Building Healthy Places Initiative. ULI has helped advance the notion that placemaking adds value to real estate and urban environments.

ULI’s...

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The Land Use Initiative (LUI) assists state and local Associations land use issues by providing recommendations to advocate land use measures.

Earlier this year, St. Louis REALTORS® and the organization’s charitable arm – the St. Louis REALTORS® Foundation –transformed a vacant piece of land within the St. Louis Greater Ville neighborhood into a community park.

The National Association of REALTORS® encourages our state and local REALTOR® Associations to partner with others to make their communities better places to live. Our Placemaking Grant is available to our REALTOR® Associations to help fund the creation of new public spaces and destinations in a community. Since the launch of the grant in 2014, we have approved over almost $1 million in...

Helpful reminders for members about the products, services, programs, and discounts they get for NAR.

Written by Rachel Banner, Senior Program Manager at the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA)

As we all know, parks are essential to a vibrant community and research shows that when people have a park within a 10-minute walk of home, they and their surrounding communities have improved physical, mental, social, environmental, and economic health. Yet, one third of people in...