Live in Portland? Join us at Portland Bright Neighbor!

In our fast-changing world, communities need help to thrive. Bright Neighbor helps communities and local governments accomplish this through community organizing and Internet-based tools. Bright Neighbor’s effective combination of community involvement and social tools helps local governments, communities, faith groups, and businesses increase livability, sustainability, and relocalization while simultaneously improving local economies. Feature highlights include:

Share spaces and events.

Work with your neighbors to map the important resources in your community. Community centers, parks, shared gardens, recycle centers and more. Schedule private and public events at these places.

Share your stuff and skills.

Enter in your inventory of skills and items for trade, pay or free. Reach out to your own neighbors for things that you need.

Find and offer rides.

Find neighbors that are attending the same events as you, travel your direction for work or simply offer to help reduce your community’s carbon footprint.

Safety & Privacy

Bright Neighbor is all about local living and building community within your neighborhood. Whether it’s a new condo building, a gated community, a civic neighborhood association or an entire municipality, Bright Neighbor allows you to decide what your neighborhood is.

  • You define your community. Bright Neighbor is set up by community administrators and can be tailored to allow resident access only.
  • Find neighbors with similar interests and commitment to your neighborhood safely. Individual community members control how much of their personal information is shared with the community .
  • Trusted neighbors. Users can trust other community members for more granular control over swap and share lists, events and other information.
  • Neighbor Verification. Optional controls for community administrators to clearly designate users who have personally been verified as residents of the community.

Affordable for your community.

The Bright Neighbor platform has pricing tiers that are right for your community.