How Neighborly works
Designed for people who live in a place — not for abstract social feeds. New in town? Start with this weekend. You can join whenever you're ready.
1. See this weekend first
Type a ZIP or City, ST, save a home place, or optionally share browser location. See festivals, shows, park days, and neighbor gatherings, with the weather. Confirm details on the organizer’s site before you go.
2. Sign up the practical way
Visit the site and choose communities, open a link from a text/email/Facebook/YouTube post, or scan a QR code on a mailbox flyer. One account can belong to many communities.
3. Build a useful profile
Name, approximate area, skills, and whether you're new or a youth offering services. Set what you want notifications about — events, matching needs, services, facilities.
4. Ask, offer, or gather
Post needs (lightbulbs to home projects). Register a service — including maker and artisan work. List a physical tool neighbors can borrow for a few days. Neighbors message you through Neighborly. Host block parties, cleanups, and BBQs. Request the pavilion for a birthday. Add or claim a food pantry listing on Places.
5. Match helpers to needs
Neighbors who can help see open requests. Offering help marks a need as matched so nothing falls through the cracks.
6. Welcome people in
New residents get a lighter onboarding path: meet neighbors, learn about the area, and find their first event.
7. Fit, not a firehose
Tell us if you want a chair at the library, pickleball, or canoeing. We sort closer-to-you first and still list the rest of the town. If neighbors mark crochet, a church or library can see that interest and host a class. Posting “who’s interested?” is free.
8. The board is a doorway
The win is not more time on Neighborly. It is coffee, a meal, letting someone help you, or staying in the spare room instead of hiding. Receiving kindness is part of belonging. One next yes is enough. Safety stays: public places, Report and Block, 988 in a crisis.