How many people can your community invite in an hour?
Challenge your community to catch up on all those social invites they have been meaning to make.
One week. One ask. Everywhere.
Invite-a-Thons make it easy to host a fun and life changing event for your community - from workplace teams to social clubs to volunteer groups.
How it works
1. Create your page
1. Create your page
2. Invite Your community
4. Celebrate your impact
3. Facilitate the workshop
3. Facilitate the workshop
2. Invite Your community
4. Celebrate your impact
Have your community help us reach our goal of 20,000 pledged invites.
Invite-a-Thonsmake it easy to host a fun and life changing event for your community - from workplace teams to social clubs to volunteer groups.
How It Works
How It Works
1. Gather your group
Bring together friends, coworkers, neighbors, or your community. An Invite-a-thon works with any group, big or small.
2. Make it personal
Each person writes down 3–5 things they love doing, then chooses one person to invite to one of those activities.
3. Send your invitations
Right then and there, everyone sends their invitation. No planning required, just hit send.
3. Send your invitations
Right then and there, everyone sends their invitation. No planning required, just hit send.
4. Make it count
Submit your Welcome Week Pledge to show how many invitations your group sent and help us celebrate the power of invitation during Welcome Week.
1. Gather your group
Bring together friends, coworkers, neighbors, or your community. An Invite-a-thon works with any group, big or small.
2. Make it personal
Each person writes down 3–5 things they love doing, then chooses one person to invite to one of those activities.
4. Make it count
Submit your Welcome Week Pledge to show how many invitations your group sent and help us celebrate the power of invitation during Welcome Week.
Invite-a-Thon is a 10-minute group challenge that turns the things you enjoy into real invitations
The mission is simple: see how many invitations your group can send in that time. This guide brings together everything you need to get started: create a free page to track your group’s invitations, think of people who might enjoy each activity, send the messages, and celebrate in real time all the new opportunities for connection you created together.
Want to make it even more fun?
Want to make it even more fun?
Create a free Invite-a-thon page before your event. It takes just two minutes to set up and gives your group one shared place to submit their Welcome Week Pledges and watch your collective impact grow in real time.
Create a free Invite-a-thon page before your event. It takes just two minutes to set up and gives your group one shared place to submit their Welcome Week Pledges and watch your collective impact grow in real time.
Create your Invite-a-thon page!
Create your Invite-a-thon page!
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How to host an Invite-a-Thon Workshop
For facilitators hosting Invite-a-Thon workshop where groups gather, learn the art of invitation, and send real invitations together.
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Invite-a-Thon one pager
A simple overview to help organizations understand what an Invite-a-Thon is, how it works, and how to host one.
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Create your own Invite-a-Thon page
Set up your Invite-a-Thon page to track invitations, celebrate your group’s impact, and add your count to the national total.
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Editable workshop deck template
The editable workshop deck with everything facilitators need to guide the full session from welcome to sending invitations.
Frequently Asked Questions
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A guided, hour-long session that turns your community into a room full of people actively reaching out to invite others into their lives. Guests leave having learned the art of a great invitation, and having actually sent one, live, together.
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Any group that already knows and trusts each other: a workplace team, an ERG, a volunteer group, a social club, a congregation, or a neighborhood association. It works for groups of a handful of people up to 100 or more.
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None. The Facilitator Deck includes a full script, if you can read a slide out loud and keep an eye on a timer, you can run this.
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Log invitations on your Invite-a-Thon page as they're sent during the workshop, so your group can watch your collective count grow in real time.
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A good rule of thumb: your number of attendees × 3, since most people end up sending more than one invitation.
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Yes. If you'd like to open your event to the wider community, you can list it on the national Welcome Week calendar so others can discover and join.
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Yes, this can count- email our team at welcome@chamberofconnection.org and we'll help you log it toward your program.
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Hosts and attendees who want to go deeper can join the Welcome Committee, our national network of neighborhood leaders, or stay involved through future Welcome Week activations.
Partner Resources
We partnered with national nonprofits to provide you with the tools and promotion you need for your events. Here are their toolkits.
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Activities for Your Neighborhood
National Good Neighbor Day is during Welcome Week. See their toolkit.
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Support Military Families
The Blue Star Families Welcome Week toolkit.
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Block Party Toolkit
The toolkit from the leading block party organization.
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Support Immigrants
Tools to ensure immigrants are included in the connection movement.
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Host a Neighborhood Table
Table Together's guide to setting up a long table gathering right on your block.
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The Longest Table
The Longest Table's toolkit for turning your street into one long community table.
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