The Dinner Party Labs

Trust Labs: We equip community with the tools to cultivate belonging and tend to all that gets in the way. Building largely on the tools and learnings from TDP, we help other organizations and networks cultivate deep, lateral relationships among peers and stronger communities of care, through a combination of trainings, tools and resource-sharing, and consulting services. In addition, we guides communities through moments of rupture whether borne of acute disagreement or from years to centuries of unaddressed harm. Through processes rooted in personal story-sharing, we equip and empower communities to interrupt the impulse to retreat into isolation or ideological and identity silos, and instead provide a framework for sustaining trust and connection across lines of difference.2023 Accomplishments: + Total # of people directly served: 8,142 + Partners included: The Archewell Foundation, School Crisis Recovery & Renewal project, Public Counsel, National Caucus of Environmental Legislators, Washington State Bar, the Ministry of the Attorney General of Ontario (Canada), Argonne, Baltimore-Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church, Habitat for Humanity, NYC Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes, Building Connected Communities Conference, Weave: The Social Fabric Project, Johns Hopkins SNF Agora Institute, and more.

The organization served as a fiscal sponsor for The "making meaning now: finding resonance project".

The Dinner Party: Our flagship endeavor, 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.2023 Accomplishments: + 175 new hosts trained + # of ppl connected: + 1,000 Dinner Partiers connected to a total of 90 new & existing Tables + 750 Dinner Partiers connected 1:1 to a grieving peer