Dear Dinner Party Community,

On March 27th, 2026 we announced the official intent to sunset The Dinner Party (read the letter from the Executive Director here). Over the last 16 years, we have connected 20,000 young grievers to each other in over 150 cities. We are immensely proud of this work, the connections made, stories shared, and the relationships that have seen people through so much.

Even with this unrivaled community of ours pitching in relentlessly, individual giving simply can't keep up to fill the funding gaps. So, we have made the tough decision to end well rather than compromise the quality of our programming.

This community knows well that endings require care and connection to be honored fully. Together, we can model a good ending. To help in our efforts to close with care please consider making a gift here.

We know that this news might be hitting each of you in a variety of ways, especially depending on your connection to this community. For answers to questions you might be holding, g o here.

Our team is filled with a mix of grief and gratitude, but know we will all move forward together.

Thank you for everything,
Team TDP

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We know what it’s like to grieve.
And we aren’t afraid to talk about it.

Welcome to The Dinner Party

Learn About Our Programs

Your grief is yours alone, but that doesn’t mean you need to be alone in your grieving. We have peer-led grief groups (Tables) meeting in-person and virtually, including affinity spaces for specific loss experiences and/or identities. Plus our Buddy System, where Dinner Party staff hand-matches grievers for a 1-to-1 connection.

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Give The Gift of Community

When you support The Dinner Party, you're not just funding programs. You're creating unique spaces where grief and hope and rage and love all have a place. You’re building strong communities where young adults can be themselves and find forward motion in their grief. Give grievers the community they crave.

Group of friends celebrating around a table with food and drinks at night, some people making peace signs and smiling.

New adult friendships are
hard enough to find.

Let alone when you’re grieving.

The Dinner Party connects young adult grievers to a caring and supportive community of peers who help each other navigate loss, life, and all the stuff in between. Because grief isn’t a problem that needs solving, but the loneliness that comes with it is.

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What Makes The Dinner Party Different:

People sitting around a dinner table outdoors during evening, with string lights overhead, enjoying a meal together.

Not your typical grief group.

We’re really sick of traditional grief support options kind of sucking. But, you know that feeling when you’re around the people who seem to just “get you”? Maybe they have similar cultures, identities or loss experience? Whatever it is, connect with those people in a space that’s safe, accessible, personal, and maybe even…fun? Ya we said it. Grief support can be fun.

The peer-to-peer promise.

Our goal is to ensure that when you’re with others in The Dinner Party community, you don’t have to explain the complicated hues of this grief-thing to someone making pity-eyes at you, you get to feel that “oh my god, me too” feeling, and that you can just be with others who get it.

The ability to pick your own path.

We know that your grief is just that, yours. So, we offer programs so that you can mix-and-match, with our heart-forward Community Experience Team ready to offer support and help guide you to what would feel most healing. Start a community of fellow grievers based on how you want to connect, where you want to gather, and over what shared experience you’d like to connect around.