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.

1. Create your page

How it works

3. Facilitate the workshop

2. Invite Your community

4. Celebrate your impact

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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.
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.
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.
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.
A good rule of thumb: your number of attendees × 3, since most people end up sending more than one invitation.
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.
Yes, this can count- email our team at welcome@chamberofconnection.org and we'll help you log it toward your program.
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.