“Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care”. Theodore Roosevelt

 Real estate agents bring unique skill sets and experience that can benefit any community.

As an agent, your skills to help with local events, volunteering at schools and organizations, and cleaning up your streets.

And what better time to think about ways to give back to your community than the season for giving? Giving back is good for the soul, and in all honesty, it demonstrates your connection to a community and the values it embraces.

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Inman: 9 Ideas How Agents
Give Back to the Community

Use these suggestions to get started, but real estate agents should also consider donations to a charity. At the end of the day, anything you can do to help your community is worthwhile.

  1. Sponsor a Community Sports Team

If you have a local area in mind, a great way to get your name out there is to sponsor a local sports team. This can take many forms, including:

  • Sponsor, volunteer, donate equipment to coach a Little League team

  • In this case, your time or financial support will help kids of all economic levels participate in a healthy afterschool activity.

However, as a bonus, it’s an efficient way to market yourself to parents who most likely want to stay within the school district boundaries.

  1. Partner with a local animal rescue

While volunteering at animal shelters is a great way to give back to the community, it can also be an important part of your job as a real estate agent.

If you’re looking for a way to help out with your community and support the local animal rescue organizations, consider these options:

  • Volunteer at local shelters

  • Become an active member of your local animal welfare association

  • Donate money to your favorite shelter or rescue organization

  • Organize fundraising events for an organization near and dear to your heart

  1. Support the local arts

You can get involved with the arts in several ways.

You can support local artists by buying their work, sponsoring an art show, providing business cards for the event, or donating money to a local museum or theater group.

  1. Host a booth at a local walk/run.

Next, consider hosting a booth at a local walk/run event if you like to be active. In this case, you support other community members as they raise funds for a charitable cause. However, simultaneously, you’ll be putting your brand out there.

That said, you should also ensure that your name and contact information are prominently displayed on these items.

  1. Lend a Hand: Building Houses

As a real estate agent, doing something charitable related to housing makes perfect sense. Many organizations work toward the goal of building houses for the less fortunate.

While Habitat for Humanity is the most famous, it is not the only option.

Here, the return is all about the opportunity to network with fellow volunteers. While you may spend a few hours on Saturday hammering nails and putting up framing, you also have the chance to network with other service-oriented people in your community.

You never know when one of the people you are working with will require a real estate professional.

  1. Adopt a Family for The Holidays

With the holidays approaching, now is the perfect time to adopt a family in your community.

Here, “adoption” can mean different things to different people. Still, it usually involves sending them a holiday meal or buying gifts for any children in the family to open during their holiday celebration.

While you may only want to host one or two families yourself, you can make a bigger impact by coordinating the assignment of families among those who work in your office.

Typically, this event works best if you partner with a charitable organization in your community. While you might want to work with someone organic to your community, Toys for Tots and the Salvation Army host yearly programs.

  1. Volunteer at a local school

Volunteering at a local school is a great way to give back to your community. Here are some of the ways you can do it:

  • Helping with after-school programs, helping teach kids how to read, or helping with fundraising initiatives.

  • Helping the teachers by giving them feedback on their lesson plans and providing constructive criticism for strategies that don’t work well in class.

  1. Clean up the local streets or highways

Since people know their neighborhoods best, they know which areas need more attention than others and can more easily enlist help from their neighbors when they live close by.

See if any organizations or groups already work in your area and would like extra manpower. Finally, keep the whole thing fun!

Cleaning up trash doesn’t have to feel like work—make it a game with friends or family members so people will want to volunteer again.

  1. Host a Clothing Drive

Lastly, you could consider hosting a clothing drive. For this event, you would mainly provide a space for people to drop off their clothing, organize it, and transport it to the appropriate charitable organization.

Again, this works best if you partner up with an existing charitable organization in your community that can help you coordinate the details.

Planet Aid, Project Giving Kids, and Second Chances regularly host activities like this.

Truthfully, like all the activities on this list, doing this should come more from the goodness of your heart than from any desire for exposure.

Giving back to the community is an excellent way for real estate agents to show their clients that they care about more than just selling houses.

It can also help them build relationships with other community members and strengthen ties between themselves and their customers.

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