Hosting with Heart
Start where you are. Choose your path. Grow your impact.
What is Hosting With Heart?
Hosting With Heart is a community of hosts using their properties to make a positive impact.
Meaningful actions. Positive impact. Memorable stays.
Every Hosting with Heart Membership Includes:
✅ Hosting with Heart Property Badge
✅ Recognition on the Give Back Hospitality website
✅ Access to the Hosting with Heart community
✅ $1 from every membership supports charitable organizations
Hosting with Heart-Guided Path
A simple way to start giving back through your STR.
The Hosting With Heart Guided Path is for busy hosts and property managers who want to give back in a meaningful way but don't know where to start. We provide everything you need. Simply implement two actions into your property and create a more intentional guest experience that makes a lasting impact beyond the stay.
How It Works:
1. Join Hosting With Heart – Guided Path
2. Receive 6 simple impact ideas with step-by-step instructions
3. Implement 2 that fit your property
4. Receive your Hosting With Heart property badge, messaging, and templates to share with your guests
Examples:
- Provide blessing bags for guests to give to those in need
- Invite guests to donate nonperishables to your local food bank
- Display a kindness-inspired guest journal for guest to interact with
What You’ll Have:
- Clear guidance on what you need and how to set up each impact idea.
- Ready-to-use messaging
- Hosting with Heart Property Badge
- Simple, meaningful guest experience
- Positive impact on local community
Community:
- Connect with like-minded hosts
- Share ideas, wins, and encouragement
- Be part of something bigger.
Additional Info:
Hosting with Heart - Guided Path Resources
✅ Step-by-step guides for guest give-back initiatives
(food drives, blessing bags, tab collections, and more)
✅ Ready-to-use signage for your property or website
✅ Monthly resource drops and seasonal give-back ideas
✅ Pre-written guest messaging (copy + paste)
✅ Social media templates and content ideas to share your impact authentically
✨ The Guided Path includes access to our Resource Hub, a collection of ideas and examples you can explore anytime, with new ones added regularly.
Hosting with Heart - Already Giving Back
For hosts already using their short-term rental to make an impact and want to be part of the Hosting with Heart movement.
How It Works
- Join Hosting With Heart – Already Giving Back Path
- Share your giving initiatives
- Receive your Hosting With Heart badge
- Display it in your home and listing
What This Looks Like
- Highlight what you're already doing
- Invite guests to connect with your impact
- Bring more meaning into your space
What You’ll Have
- A simple way to show your values
- A more meaningful guest experience
- Hosting With Heart Property Badge
- Positive impact on local community
Community
- Connect with like-minded hosts
- Share ideas, wins, and encouragement
- Be part of something bigger together.
Join the Movement. Share Your Impact. Receive Your Badge.
The Hosting with Heart Property Badge recognizes hosts who intentionally use hospitality to create a positive impact in their communities and guest experiences.
How It Works:
- Join either Hosting With Heart paths
- Share two ways your property creates impact
- Receive your Hosting With Heart Badge Kit, including:
- Digital Hosting With Heart Badge
- Ready-to-use website, listing, email, guest, and social media messaging
- Printable property sign
- Connect with like-minded hosts around the world through the WhatsApp community.
- Be featured in the Give Back Hospitality community
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Be part of the collective impact being made across the STR industry
Your story strengthens our collective impact and inspires other hosts to make a difference.
Once payment is complete, we’ll email a simple form to submit your impact and celebrate your efforts.
Additional Ways to Get Involved
Support the Give Back Hospitality Mission
Your giving creates real impact, locally and globally and strengthens collective impact across the STR community.
What the Mission Fund Is
The Give Back Hospitality Mission Fund brings together membership contributions and vendor support to provide quarterly giving to member-nominated charities.
How Donated Funds Are Used
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80% is donated directly to charitable organizations
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20% supports the tools, education, and infrastructure that help hosts give back locally
Charities We Support
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Provide essentials for individuals experiencing homelessness
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Empower kids through leadership and confidence-building programs
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Offer rest and care for families in need
- Check out all the charitable organizations we support so far!
Important Note
Supporting the Give Back Hospitality mission helps create a greater impact across the STR community. Vendors who give back are also invited into the Hosting With Heart WhatsApp community to share ideas, encouragement, and impact with hosts around the world.
Business & Giving Disclosure
Give Back Hospitality is a purpose-driven, for-profit business that donates to vetted charitable organizations selected through member nominations.
Together with the Global Hospitality Collective, we’re turning hospitality into hope, meeting real needs and creating lasting change through short-term rentals.
Have Questions?
Not sure which impact path is the best fit, or curious how Give Back Hospitality could work for your property or portfolio?
I offer a 15-30 minute introductory conversation to answer questions, talk through your goals, and help you decide the best next step.
There’s no obligation, just an opportunity to connect, answer questions, and provide clarity.
Email me to schedule a time to connect
We are making an impact together, supporting organizations locally and worldwide while building stronger, purpose-driven STRs.