Georgie

Hi, I am Georgie Smith.

My passion for home, people, food, design, and nature is expressed through creating immersive experiences — bringing people together, in celebration of life.

I am the founder and CEO of the nonprofit A Sense of Home (ASOH), a foundation that strives to prevent homelessness by creating first-ever homes for youth aging out of foster care with donated furniture and home goods.

ASOH began when a young man who was aging out of foster care noticed a video on this blog site. How I responded spawned a wonderful movement of love in action.

My reaction to this young man’s cry for help was to create a home using second-hand furniture. What I thought was a one-off random act of kindness became a weekly ritual of friends renting trucks to collect donated furniture and home goods and creating up to four homes every Sunday.

I saw an opportunity for an entirely new and unique immersive experience whereby the community could come together to implement a sustainable solution and improve the lives of the most disenfranchised whilst also improving society.

By 2016, I had formed a 501c3 charity and almost 9 years later we have created 940+ homes placing over 2,500 young people in beds. This year we begin scaling the A Sense of Home model across the country… and the world.

Simply sharing what we have too much of creates sustainable tenancy for others often overlooked or ignored. When we lift one, we lift all. When we gather with strangers and/or friends to share our gifts, joy, and pain, we bear witness to our inextricable human connection as one.

Prior to ASOH, I had a lifestyle consultancy that created events, homes, and celebrations. This website began as a Blog to capture the recipes and immersive experiences I created each week. All my time, resources, and passion in recent years have been parlayed into building ASOH. Now that we have a solid model that is ripe for replication, I will additionally harness my design skills into establishing a lifestyle brand that will share profits with ASOH, enabling the organization to become self-sustaining.

Georgie Smith

Since the original random-act -of-kindness, Georgie Smith has earned a number of honors, including top 10 CNN Hero , Home Beautiful’s “20 People Who Will change the Design Industry”, a 2018 DVF Award nomination at the United Nation in NYC, a Shero at the 2017 Women's Choice Awards, as well as being featured in the book and global exhibit 200 Women Who Will Change the Way You See the World .