Website Spotlight: Nextdoor

Earth Month falls in April and Nextdoor wants to raise awareness for the ways neighbors can come together to conserve resources. For example, neighbors use Nextdoor to sell and give away items, share goods like yard equipment, and work together to save and make money. 

• Reduce and reuse: 64% of Americans would be more likely to buy/sell an item if the buyer/seller lived close to their home.
• Top 10 things people are willing to share with neighbors: food (78%), tools (71%), yard equipment (64%), a bike (36%), clothing (26%), shelter (26%), electronics (24%), kid toys (24%), childcare/babysitters (24%), a vehicle (15%).
• Garage sales: 52% of Americans would be more likely to host a garage sale in spring if they had an easy way to get the word out to their neighbors.
• Ride-share: 51% of Americans would engage in carpools with neighbors if they had an easy way to coordinate.
• Save money: 50% of Americans would work together with their neighbors to save money (e.g., group discounts on home services, split child care costs, shared meals) if they had a way to coordinate it.

Nextdoor is the free and private social network for neighborhoods. On Nextdoor, neighbors create private websites for their neighborhoods where they can ask questions, get to know one another, and exchange local advice and recommendations.

Over 30,000 thousand neighborhoods across the country (1 in 5) are using Nextdoor to: 

- Organize neighborhood events, such as garage sales and block parties

- Sell or give away items, such as gently used furniture, baby items or toys 

- Find trustworthy local resources, such as babysitters and home improvement professionals, etc.
- Get assistance in finding lost pets and missing packages

- Report suspicious activity and local crime

Nextdoor’s mission is to use the power of technology to build stronger and safer neighborhoods.  Nextdoor believes that when neighbors start talking, good things happen.

Relevant Trends: 

- Sharing with neighbors as a way to live a more eco friendly lifestyle

- Furniture, home items are the most sold item on Nextdoor
- Nextdoor helps facilitate lost summer traditions (playing outside, neighborhood parties, etc.)
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