It’s been said that a rising tide lifts all boats. At Urban Mattress, we choose to live by that philosophy with our focus on making local business philanthropy work for you and your community. Here’s how we do that, and why. How local stores, local sales staff, and local philanthropy go hand-in-glove We sell our…
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4 Ways You Can Help in Your Community
No matter where you live, there are likely things you love about your community and other things you wish were a little different. While one person may not be able to change the entire community alone, your efforts combine with the efforts of others around you can make a difference. If you are looking for…
Giving to Local Charities: Why Every Little Bit Counts
The idea of local business philanthropy sounds good to many business owners. However, they don’t always make an effort to include it as one of their business practices. It’s just something that sounds theoretically good. However, this isn’t the case at Urban Mattress where we donate 2% of every sale to local charities. If you’re…
The Importance Of Local Business Philanthropy
Giving back to your community is an important aspect of daily life. No matter where you live, there are always organizations that can benefit from your charitable donations to make a difference for those who need it. Local homeless shelters, food banks, or health charities are just some of the many organizations that rely the generosity of others…
Why Does Urban Mattress Support Local Charities?
Lots of people drop spare change in the bell-ringer’s kettle in December, but how often do you think about charity the rest of the year? When you donate to charity, is it to a big, multi-national organization or to a local charity? At Urban Mattress, we support local charities and encourage others to do the…
Get A Good Night’s Sleep While Helping Your Community
Supporting a local business is always a good feeling. But supporting one that makes a concerted effort to help your community is even better. When a business offers both, you’ll be able to come in and find the mattress of your dreams while feeling good with the knowledge that with your purchase, you are helping local…
Local Business Philanthropy: Giving Beyond Yourself
One thing you should know about us is that we pride ourselves on our local business philanthropy. Because we operate as a franchise system, we give local entrepreneurs the opportunity to help and improve their community. By providing people with the ability to get a good night’s sleep on a brand new mattress at a…
Gratitude
So over the past couple of weeks we’ve been thinking a lot about happiness and that we can have it despite our circumstances. Last week we wrote about how science shows we can learn to be happy no matter what happens or doesn’t happen to us! A big part of that has to be due…
What Makes Us Happy
We watched a TED talk the other day that really got us thinking. It was by a Harvard psychologist who studies how we as humans have developed the amazing ability to synthesize our own happiness. What the heck does that mean? Well, psychologist Dan Gilbert says it’s how we go through something hard or awful, or…
A New Urban Mattress Store! Leesburg, VA
Our family of super awesome stores keeps growing! This time, our newest store is in the Washington, DC area. Nathaniel Hoelk and his wife, Amanda, have owned their store in Vienna, Virginia since 2013. That store, the first Urban Mattress on the East Coast, has been so successful that this summer, they opened a second…