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Social Activities
by Mary Lou Gurski
President, Training for Success, Inc.
1-800-2ATTEND (1-800-228-8363)

  1. Start a dry cleaning service from your office.
  2. Establish a guest apartment, free to residents!
  3. Offer an exercise or aerobic class, free.
  4. Resident of the Month contest, article in newsletter.
  5. Resident Parties, but make sure it matches your residents!
  6. A Newsletter! Positive, inspirational and coupons!
  7. Sponsor a sports league. Residents who play together, stay together.
  8. Regular children’s activities use a teen committee to plan it.
    a. Pizza and Soda night, for teens
    b. Free movies for children on Saturday mornings
    c. Pets On Parade
  9. Open a convenience store on site.
  10. Provide a shopping service, especially good for elderly residents.
  11. Offer free firewood
  12. Free VCR and movies to be checked out of the office.
  13. Convert a vacant apartment into an exercise room with a mirror on one long wall.
  14. Offer additional storage, anywhere.
  15. Provide a laundry attendant in larger laundry rooms.
  16. Mother’s Day Out, once a week for four hours.
  17. Sunday Brunch or Coffee.
  18. Craft Groups – knitting, ceramics, craft classes, etc.
  19. Free maid service for three months, starting one month before the lease renewal.
  20. Door to door trash pickup.
  21. Family Game Nights, Scrabble, Monopoly, Bridge.
  22. Dance lessons with a professional teacher.
  23. Free tanning bed.
  24. Splash days – with T-shirts and sun visors.
  25. Resident activity committee.
  26. Summer recreation program for kids.
  27. Send birthday cards to the residents.
  28. Encourage resident referrals, folks stay longer if their friends live there!
  29. Free tokens for the laundry room.
  30. Free bundle laundry service.
  31. Potluck dinners, exchange recipes.
  32. Haunted House on Halloween.
  33. Free swimming lessons for the children.
  34. Start an apartment community chorus.
  35. Allow free usage of your clubroom (with a deposit).
  36. Resident Appreciation Day or Week:
    a. Theme: Your Tropical Paradise for a Week
       i. Monday-Donuts and juice at the pool.
       ii. Tuesday-USA Today Newspaper delivered to each door
       iii. Wednesday-Thank you card at each door
       iv. Thursday-Red carnation with package of Kool Aid
       v. Friday-Valet trash pick up
       vi. Saturday-Pool Party
  37. Have a pie or bake sale.
  38. Yard sale at the clubhouse.
  39. Car wash – employees wash cars.
  40. Chili cook off.
  41. Offer free tax assistance seminar near tax time.
  42. Fashion show for Mother’s Day.
  43. Have a free makeover day for Mother’s Day.
  44. Contact the Red Cross to offer CPR classes.
  45. Contact AARP about offering fitness seminar for seniors.
  46. Organize a walking club.
  47. Recognize all honor students in newsletter.
  48. Offer tutorial program after school.
  49. Offer homemaker course for single parents.
  50. Offer financial management programs (free from banks).
  51. Have a party for honor students at the end of the school year.
  52. Sponsor a drug free poster contest for students.
  53. Sponsor Book Mobile.
  54. Contact Council on Aging to provide homemaking assistance to senior citizens or disabled residents.
  55. Have a dessert party.
  56. Sponsor a cake-decorating contest.
  57. Former Resident Reunion.
  58. Free Health Club Membership.
  59. Super Bowl Sunday pizza party – rent a big screen TV to watch the game in the clubhouse.

 

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