Our flagship program, The Dinner Party, is a platform where 20-, 30-, and early 40-somethings who’ve experienced a major loss can connect to one another, either one-to-one or in small, peer-led groups, with the goal of building deep relationships over time. To date, we’ve connected more than 16K peers to one another.

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We’re teaming up with the NYC Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes on a year-long initiative to connect city agencies in NYC with their constituents to ensure that policy is set with real people in mind. By connecting everyday New Yorkers across difference, we aim to combat a rise in hate crimes and to foster mutual understanding between people and cultures across the city.

In 2019, we teamed up with the local public health department to host a series of potlucks in Mineral and Hinsdale counties, CO. Over the course of a year, 151 people in Creede — 43% of the population —participated in at least one supper, and many came to two or more.

In 2017, we hosted a 450-person supper for the Obama Foundation’s inaugural summit. President Obama and Mrs. Obama each facilitated a People’s Supper at their respective tables. After some initial concern that the supper would be “hokey,” President Obama requested the Secret Service give him “just five more minutes,” not once but twice, before bringing his table’s conversation to a close.

We teamed up with the Mayor’s Office of Erie, PA, after the city was named “the worst place in the country for African Americans to live”. Over the course of six months, we brought together a mix of 80 racially and ethnically diverse civic leaders for a seven-part series of racial healing suppers. Eventually, what began with people sitting around a table sharing stories culminated in projects like Erie’s new workforce development initiative, which provides capital funding for minority-owned businesses and grants to help businesses provide new job training, and a multimillion-dollar scholarship fund to ensure all Erie students have access to higher education.

Together with our partners at the School Crisis Recovery & Renewal (SCRR) project, we're working to supporting grieving educators impacted by the loss — and in many cases, losses — of a student. In the Fall of 2022, we hosted a 3-part, 9-hour training for educators and school counselors, examining the manifestations and impact of disenfranchised grief and grief bias, how to form a table and what to consider when it comes to creating a psychologically safe space among colleagues across lines of identity and positionality difference, and what to do when things get messy.

When Linda Kay Klein approached us with her new book Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free, we started hatching a way for her to support the community of readers who would come to her saying “#MeToo”. We helped her organization, Break Free Together, create dinners where people who’ve experience sexual shame can share their story, and connect with others in person who’ve been there too.

In 2022, we launched our Brave Conversation Resourcers program, in partnership with the Baltimore-Washington Conference-United Methodist Church, in order to equip member congregations with tools to better address conflict. Following a four-part training and involvement in an inaugural cohort, a dozen trained lay leaders are now working to assist congregations grappling with issues that threaten to divide them.