SEATTLE, Aug. 6, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Zillow® Group, Inc.
(Nasdaq: Z and ZG), announced progress on The Home Project – the
company's social impact program focused on helping individuals and
families who are housing insecure – as well as additional Community
Partners.
Recent completed projects include:
- Irvine: During Zillow
Group's bi-annual Hack Week, where employees work on projects
outside of their day-to-day work that they are passionate about, a
five-person team volunteered to work with Habitat for Humanity of
Orange County to redesign their WordPress website. The team created
a shareable redesign, which allowed more than 1,300 other Habitat
for Humanity branches to use the template for their own sites.
- Seattle: One of Zillow
Group's Community Partners, Downtown Emergency Services Center
(DESC), has long struggled with their IT infrastructure – which
included week-long outages forcing entire departments to work
remotely. To cut down on these disruptions, DESC moved their
desktop infrastructure from a locally hosted server to the cloud
and needed help getting their 600+ employee set-up for the
transition. Zillow Group employees came together to support the
transition, including staging their administration office and
helping to distribute 200+ new machines in the case management
office.
- Seattle: Zillow Group
employees produced two videos to tell the story of Aurora Commons, a space that provides neighbors
– whether they are homeless or not – a place to find community, a
cup of coffee, express themselves creatively through art, support
for challenges they face, and more. The videos will be used to
promote the space throughout the community.
- New York: Seven Zillow
Group employees hosted a pre-K graduation at the Sumner Children's
Center, a pre-school run by the Brooklyn Kindergarten Society – an
organization that provides family services to working families in
low-income neighborhoods throughout Brooklyn. After the ceremony, which included
spirited songs and a display of the children's counting skills, the
students, families, and teachers enjoyed cake, ice cream, and
lemonade, and each child received a backpack from Zillow Group that
included two children's books that were inscribed with their names
and a special sticker to commemorate their graduation.
In four cities, the Seattle-based company announced Community
Partners. Community Partners are non-profit organizations whose
missions align with The Home Project. Each Community Partner
receives $25,000 in cash as well as
in-kind contributions that range from employee volunteer time to
product development to donated ad slots, and more.
- Cincinnati: Zillow
Group selected Over-the-Rhine Community Housing (OTRCH) as its new
Community Partner. OTRCH is a non-profit community development
organization that provides a wide spectrum of affordable and
supportive housing options with holistic services that support
residents with low-incomes.
- Denver: As an integral
part of the fight to end homelessness in Colorado, HomeAid
Colorado is Zillow Group's new Community Partner. Their
mission is to build new lives for homeless families and individuals
through housing and community outreach. They develop, build, and
maintain homes, apartments, facilities and shelters to give
Colorado's homeless a place to
call home.
- Lincoln: Matt Talbot Kitchen & Outreach is a
non-profit organization with a vision to defeat hunger and
homelessness and restore hope and has been selected as Zillow
Group's Community Partner in Lincoln. The organization serves the physical,
emotional, and spiritual needs of Lincoln's working poor and homeless through
outreach, advocacy, education, and the provision of food and
shelter.
- Vancouver, B.C.:
Covenant House provides love and hope to Vancouver's homeless and at-risk youth.
The nonprofit helps youth aged 16 to 24 who have fled physical,
emotional and/or sexual abuse; those who have been forced from
their homes; and those who have aged out of foster care.
The Home Project is Zillow Group's signature social impact
program that aims to address challenges around housing insecurity.
Zillow Group envisions a world where everyone—regardless of
economic circumstance—has access to the resources that can help
them find a place to call home.
About Zillow Group
Zillow Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:Z)
(NASDAQ:ZG) houses a portfolio of the largest real estate and
home-related brands on mobile and the web, which focus on all
stages of the home lifecycle: renting, buying, selling and
financing. Zillow Group is committed to empowering
consumers with unparalleled data, inspiration and knowledge around
homes, and connecting them with great real estate professionals.
The Zillow Group portfolio of consumer brands includes
real estate and rental marketplaces Zillow®, Trulia®, StreetEasy®,
HotPads®, Naked Apartments®, RealEstate.com and Out
East®. In addition, Zillow Group provides a comprehensive
suite of marketing software and technology solutions to help real
estate professionals maximize business opportunities and connect
with millions of consumers. The Zillow Offers™ marketplace provides
homeowners with the opportunity to receive offers from buyers,
including Zillow in some metropolitan areas. When Zillow buys a
home, it will make necessary updates and list the home for resale
on the open market. The company operates a number of business
brands for real estate, rental and mortgage professionals,
including Mortech®, dotloop®, Bridge Interactive® and New Home
Feed®. The company is headquartered in Seattle.
Zillow, Mortech, Bridge Interactive, StreetEasy, HotPads, Out
East and New Home Feed are registered trademarks of Zillow,
Inc. Trulia is a registered trademark of Trulia,
LLC. dotloop is a registered trademark of DotLoop,
LLC. Naked Apartments is a registered trademark
of Naked Apartments, LLC.
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