a Parent app for parents to offer & receive help from local people

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Our Village all in one app offers five categories of service, with multiple subcategories. A safe platform to find local help from real people. Find help from background checked locals.

We understand how hard it is raising a family. We know the struggles of doing it with no village.

As a parent, If you don’t have support, it can feel downright impossible and isolating. At Our Village, you can find support with background-checked community members. Find local help with everyday tasks or use our app as a means of income.

We're launching in early 2024

Sign up to be a beta tester for free! Receive one year free use of the app!

Beta Testers receive one year Free use of Our Village App

Find trusted help. Connect with supportive parents in your own community

We understand this new age of parenting can leave you feeling stressed and isolated. Our mission? To provide parents with a way to connect with local trusted parents who will help you get back precious time as well as, a way to earn income doing what parents do best and help in building strong communities.

Our Village is an all in one app where parents can connect and transact with one another. 

Building stronger communities

Real help from local people

100% background-checked membership

We do the vetting so you don’t have to. Every member submits to a background check to ensure a community and network you can trust.

Social media connections for parents

No more “wild west” experiences on modern social media. Our Village allows all members to connect, building a true community of accountable members.

Community reviews for more confidence

Our community reviews offer a level of accountability you can’t find on any random app. You’ll discover which members offer the highest parental support.

building communities

Bound by parenthood: We are not your traditional parenting app. We’re a hub for all your family service needs. We’re building an environment where parents can connect.

Our platform offers parents an opportunity to earn extra money with their valuable skills. Our aim? Parents will foster genuine connections with an interconnected supportive community of peers. Family-friendly service providers are gathered into one space, one app, and one village.

We made it easy for parents to either supplement your income—or supplement your time.

Offer Your Services & Craft Your Own Business

Flexible work on your terms

Offer your unique services to the community as a “gig,” and discover how easy it can be to build a business based on the skills you already have. Tap in and become a part of an amazing self sustaining community.

Earn an Income While Helping Others

Parents are looking for other parents. They might have the financial resources to hire out work, but they don’t always know where to find it. That’s where your help comes in. You can earn an income while helping others in the community. Use it to connect, use it to improve others’ lives, or even use it to build your own business.

Safety is Priority

We background-check every member who joins Our Village, ensuring a community where safety comes first. Once you’re in, you can feel comfortable in our review system to identify the best members to interact with.

Set your Price & Schedule

Your skills, our community—but it all happens on your terms. You can call the shots in your gigs, setting your own price and schedule. Enjoy the full fruits of the gig economy while helping out your community of parents.

No Subscription cost

Our fee structure is set up per transaction which allows parents to browse the app at no cost. Once a transaction between two parents is complete, there will be a minimal transaction fee for Providers and seekers. 

Frequently Asked Questions

Our Village is a gig-market app. A platform which enables parents to seek help from several categories of daily living such as, help with transportation, care, home maintenance, tasks & errands and education. Our categories will grow as Our Village grows. This is a two-sided market app, Members of the communities are also able to offer their services to parents, set their own prices and set pricing for their services.

A two-sided market app which enables parents to offer and seek services to and from one another. For more networking capability, there is a chat community and a quick hire feature which allows the parent to find help quickly. Parents are able to build their profile and post their profile card and skills to the OV community in the app, which will assist them in growing their local Village quickly.

Some of the more unique features include the many layers of security embedded throughout the app to offer a safe space exclusively for families. 

Background checks are mandatory for all Village Providers. Background checks are required for anyone providing a service. Village Seekers can “connect” with other Village Seekers and are able to see if their connections have hired Village Providers in order to get personal references. And finally, Village Seekers are able to see reviews based on other seeker’s experiences directly on the Village Provider’s profile.
Ultimately, the feature that really sets us apart in this review feature, is that both Village Providers and Village Seekers can give star-ratings to one another based on communication, timeliness and reliability. Additionally, each profile obtains a cancellation rate on their profile, to steer away any serial cancellers. 

You can sign up to Our Village as both a Village Seeker and Village Provider, and are able to easily toggle from one user experience to the other.

Quick Hire Feature allows parents to send out an emergency request for a hire the same day. Simply put out a job ad with details like time, job description and price you are paying, and this request will be sent out to all Village Providers who are available during this time as a push notification.

Promotions Feature- is specifically for Village Providers who would like to offer a special promotion to all seekers who are “following” their profile. This allows these providers to potentially get more business during slow times.

Currently Our Village is launching in certain areas of DFW Texas during our beta testing. Sign up for email and SMS updates to find out when we are coming to your area. We will make a link available for people to request Our Village in their area. 

We made it super easy for parents to offer their services on Our Village app. Sign up on our contact list and fill out the questionnaire. Once the app has launched, you will receive a notification via email and text to join the app. You will complete your profile in-app. Once your background check has been completed you will be notified to begin using the Our Village app to find help right away. 

Our standard background check is required for all Village Providers. It covers a SSN trace, enhanced nationwide criminal database in the past 7 years, a search for sexual or violent crimes and the DOJ sex offender registry in 49 states. 

If you are signing up to offer transportation services, you will be subjected to a Department of Motor Vehicles state driving record. 

Village Providers have the option to sign up for a more in-depth background check to be displayed on their profiles, to attract more potential members.

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