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Simply put, we have a big heart for
the small businesses that keep our communities going.

Connect with trusted and highly-recommended local businesses—right in your own backyard. Launching October 1, 2026

Own a local business?

Looking for a trusted local business?

We are making it even easier for local communities to connect with trusted and highly recommended local businesses.
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Meet Porchlight

Porchlight is more than just a growing collection of local business listings—it’s a community-driven resource designed to connect you with some of the most trusted professionals in their fields. The best part? They’re not just experts—they’re our neighbors. Together, let’s keep our local communities strong.

Porchlight's Local Guides

Porchlight's guides are simple, homegrown resources—printed and online each quarter—created to shine a light on trusted local businesses our neighbors rely on every day. They are designed to make it easy to find, connect with, and support the people right here in our community when needed the most. We currently offer five easy-to-use guides serving Jacksonville and Northeast Florida:
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  • Home & Emergency Services Guide

  • Pet & Animal Services Guide

  • Family & Lifestyle Services Guide

  • Senior Lifestyle & Resource Guide

  • Food & Beverage Services Guide

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Our Front Porch Goals

With a mission to elevate trusted local experts while keeping costs neighborly and affordable, Porchlight was created. Our goals are simple:​​​​

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Provide easy access to reliable local businesses and service providers through affordable, community-friendly promotion

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Offer a free, convenient resource—both in print and online—for neighbors to easily connect with local services

3

Strengthen local economies by keeping more dollars within our communities and supporting established, growing, and emerging businesses

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A Homegrown Collab:
Rockin' It Local

Porchlight Directory is proud to partner with Rockin' It Local — a community-first brand that shares our mission: helping local businesses grow by connecting them with the neighbors who support them.
 

Together, we're combining Porchlight's trusted printed and online guides with Rockin' It Local's community reach to give local businesses more ways to be seen, more ways to be found, and more ways to grow — right here at home.

Rockin' It Local:
Front Porch Media

Our biggest visibility upgrade yet — exclusively for Porchlight Amplified and Center Stage partners.
 

Rockin' It Local Front Porch Media is the newest way we're helping local businesses shine: featured placement on digital screens throughout the Jacksonville and NE Florida region. Showcase your business on eye-catching television displays right where our neighbors already shop, dine, and gather.
 

RIL Front Porch Media spots are available exclusively to businesses who choose to partner with Porchlight + Rockin' It Local in our collaborative packages.
 

Already a Porchlight partner? Ask us how to add Rockin' It Local to your package and unlock your RIL Front Porch Media spot.
 

New to Porchlight? Our joint partnership packages are the fastest way to get maximum visibility — in our guides and on television screens.

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Apply to be featured in Porchlight

Explore our affordable, neighborhood-friendly partnership options and apply to have your business listing featured in one or more of our local guides.

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Porchlight
Creative Extras 

We help Porchlight partners grow with affordable creative and consulting support. From logos and branding to social media, websites, digital ads and print materials, get ready to build presence and increase visibility. Reach out to get started!

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