We believe every club should feel like home.
Because home isn’t a just a place. It’s a person who makes you feel like you belong.
Stronger connections can add years to your life and life to your years.
LIVE LONGER UP TO
7.5y
Social connection increases the odds of survival by 50%, based on data across 148 studies with an average follow-up of 7.5 years.
COMMUNITY SAFETY & TRUST
21%
Stronger social ties are linked to safer communities, including 21% fewer murders and 20% fewer motor vehicle thefts.
SOCIAL CAPITAL & OPPORTUNITY
20%
Cross-income friendships increases future earnings for children from lower-income backgrounds by about 20%.
Connection helps with growth too.
120M+
Helping others turns connection into contribution
People already want to help - they just need a place to plug in. In one year, 124.7 million people informally helped others by showing up for neighbors, friends, and people nearby, and 60.7 million volunteered through organizations.
Umee helps community owners make that energy visible, turning members into participants, supporters, and contributors.
26 Cities
Attachment to place strengthen local growth
Gallup and the Knight Foundation studied 26 U.S. communities over three years and found that higher resident attachment was linked to greater local GDP growth. The places people feel attached to, grow stronger.
Umee helps owners strengthen that attachment inside their own communities, so members feel connected to it.
5 / 15 / 50 / 150
Belonging at a larger scale
People experience community in layers, not as one big crowd. Dunbar’s work is commonly associated with relationship circles of about 5 close ties, 15 good friends, 50 friends, and 150 stable connections.
Umee helps owners protect that feeling as they grow by making large communities feel smaller, more familiar, and easier to return to.
Employment
Community involvement can build employable skills and increase the likelihood of becoming employed.
Work
Supportive relationships are linked to job satisfaction, creativity, competence, innovation, and better job performance.
Relationship over time
Long-term friendships, community groups, and romantic relationships - all supports healthier aging.
Connection gives people more than a place to belong.
Umee helps recurring places become easier starting points for that kind of everyday contribution.
Social Connection
the structure, function, and quality of our relationships with others is a critical and underappreciated contributor to individual and population health, community safety, resilience, and prosperity
