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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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What Volunteers Are Saying

  • "The program offers structure, practice, and real skills.”

  • “Building connection in my local community is important to me because this is home.”

  • “Helping people feel welcome locally changes how you experience your city.”

  • “Connected neighborhoods are the building blocks of a healthy society.”

  • “The time commitment is clear and manageable.”

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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.

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  1. Meaningful social impact through a program designed to address disconnection, loneliness, and division at the community level.

  2. Employees who are more connected and resilient, with skills that support wellbeing, engagement, and productivity.

  3. A scalable volunteering model that fits real lives and works across locations.

  4. Trackable participation and service hours, integrated into existing volunteer systems.

  5. A seat at the table as a founding partner helping shape a national effort to rebuild connection.

One-Day Service Project

Welcome Letters

At your next impact day or team volunteer team event, write welcome letters for new families moving into your community.

  • Guided conversation that connect employees in sharing their experiences of moving

  • Each person handwrites letters that are distributed to families via schools on Welcome Week

Powered by the US Chamber of Connection & Goodera

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  • Lonely employees are 4.5x more likely to report productivity issues

  • Only 39% of Americans are strongly connected

  • 18% of the formal volunteers participated in online volunteering

  • Lonelier employees also tend to work less hard (63% vs. 74%)

  • Engaged workers are 64% less likely to report loneliness

  • 1 in 4 Americans say they have no close friends.

  • Only 32% of Americans say “most people can be trusted."

  • 1 in 5 employees feel lonely at work daily

  • Strong relationships are the #1 predictor of happiness and longevity

  • Connection makes us more resilient to disasters and lowers crime.

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Let’s explore how we can help engage your employees in reconnecting America.

Our first annual report reveals where everyday social connection is breaking down — and introduces a practical, data-backed blueprint for rebuilding social bonds, trust, and belonging across communities.

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