Community Programs

This year, NAR’s Placemaking Grant has a level 1 grant for up to $1,500 for pop-up and demonstration projects such as temporary bike lanes, parklets, trails and plazas.  Demonstration and pop-up projects enable a community to test the viability of...

The real estate community is rushing to help victims of record-breaking floods in the Midwest last month, which hit the state of Nebraska particularly hard. The REALTORS® Relief Foundation has partnered with the Nebraska REALTORS® Association to collect donations for mortgage and rental payment assistance for hundreds of residents who have been displaced.

One in three Americans don't have a park within a 10-minute walk (or half-mile) of their home.

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.

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...

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 Three Rivers Association of REALTORS® (IL) used NAR's Placemaking Grant to build a pedestrian path connecting the entire Village of Diamond.

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,...

Written by Zachary Churney, Economic and Community Development Liaison, MIBOR REALTOR® Association The fundamental idea behind placemaking is that we build communities in which people want to live, work and thrive. These spaces become places where...

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