Join the Welcome Committee
Engage Your Employees in Reconnecting America
We’re mobilizing 10,000 volunteers by the end of the decade to rebuild social connection and rebuild trust across the country.
We call them the Welcome Committee, trained volunteers on the front lines — in neighborhoods and communities — helping people build essential, everyday connection and reconnect us across difference.
Become a founding partner and enable your employees to have the opportunity to bring more connection into their lives — and into their community.
People with healthy and thriving social connection do the same few things across every group: they invest in relationships, belong to communities, spend time in shared places, and contribute through service. These everyday behaviors—our Six Points of Connection—are simple, proven, and human.
Welcome Committee volunteers are trained to build the Six Points in their own lives and to help others in their community do the same. Our research shows the biggest barriers to connection are time, not knowing where to start, and not wanting to start alone—and the Welcome Committee is designed to address all three, for both the volunteers and the people they serve.
The Welcome Committee
How Employers Participate
Companies partner with us to deliver meaningful social impact while supporting employee wellbeing and productivity—by helping people build the relationships that allow communities and workplaces to thrive.
Become a founding partner and pilot the Welcome Committee in the communities where your employees live.
Employees join the Welcome Committee locally, committing 3–5 hours per month.
We provide the structure — training, monthly challenges, coordination, and support.
Service hours and participation are trackable through your existing volunteer management systems.
Start small and build — pilots are designed to learn, adapt, and grow into a signature program.
What You Get
As a founding partner, your company can take simple, practical action that sets you up to lead and create real value for employees, communities, and the business.
Meaningful social impact through a program designed to address disconnection, loneliness, and division at the community level.
Employees who are more connected and resilient, with skills that support wellbeing, engagement, and productivity.
A scalable volunteering model that fits real lives and works across locations.
Trackable participation and service hours, integrated into existing volunteer systems.
A seat at the table as a founding partner helping shape a national effort to rebuild connection.
Some companies start with the Welcome Committee. Others begin by building connection inside the organization before activating employees in the community.
Additional Ways to Engage
The Chamber of Connection also offers:
Connected Conversations — facilitated conversations (often over meals at team meetings and conferences) that help teams build trust, strengthen relationships, and develop practical skills for investing in connection at work and beyond.
Connection Builder Certification — a 7-week course that helps employees strengthen connection in their own lives and learn how to help others do the same.
Welcome & Community Onboarding Events — welcome events, social club fairs, and volunteer fairs for new hires and relocators.
These offerings can stand alone or complement the Welcome Committee, depending on your goals.
Start a Conversation
If you’re interested in becoming a founding partner of the Welcome Committee, we’d love to talk.
These conversations are exploratory. We’ll learn about your goals, share how current pilots work, and discuss whether this is a fit for your organization and communities.
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