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In an era when all of us want to live a little “greener” but may not have a naturally green thumb, this class will offer the perfect opportunity for your apartment residents to learn the basics of gardening in an urban setting. An instructor will provide a brief lecture on choosing the best native plants for your unique climate and show how to plant them in containers so they can be enjoyed on a patio or balcony. This class can cover both decorative plants and vegetable gardening. After the presentation, invite attendees to put their newfound knowledge into practice by providing supplies for them to pot their first plant for their own apartment.

Start by letting all residents and local bussiness know that you are going to be hosting a care package event to support the troops. Have those donate from a list things that are needed to our soldiers. Have a community event with local bussineess that you have networked with and have them set up a booth and bring donated prizes to raffel off as people bring their care packages (you can also do this with your vendors). Also, can have games, ect and charge a $1 all procedes go to the delivery of the care packages. Have your staff dress up in military attire. You can do this with any charitable event. Outside marketing will bring in other community residents.

Send out your monthly newsletter advertise the BINGO game on your facebook, twitter, etc. Have them come to the office to pick up their unique BINGO card. As they follow you and/or log in daily to these sites you post the numbers drawn daily if they have it on their card they mark it off once they have a BINGO they call or come by the office to pick up their winnings. This does several things gets them active in the community, creates participitation and gets them on your social networks to read whats happening at your community.

We provided hotdogs (on the grill), buns, all the condiments, baked beans and different chip varieties. We asked residents to bring salads. The turnout was fabulous. Our groundskeeper grilled the dogs and the office staff did the rest.

You know how you have all of these resident socials and hardly anyone shows up and when they do, no one talks to one another? We recently had a resident event that guranteed that the residents interacted with each other, with us and it drew a crowd. We hosted Legacy at Friendly Manor's 1st annual Murder Mystery. All in attendance was assigned roles, dressed in character, given questions and scripts. Then everyone was required to mingle and ask certian questions and then offer certain information. The mystery we held was about an awards show - like the Academy Awards - and one of the rising stars was murdered. Then after the "murder", we then had to mingle and question people again. It was so much fun that by the end of it we had run over our expected end time, and residents were asking when we were going to do...