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Launch a Chamber of Connection in Your City

America faces a crisis of connection. Trust, belonging, and civic life are in decline.

The Chamber of Connection is a new kind of civic institution designed to reverse that trend. By treating connection as essential infrastructure, we help cities strengthen everything they care about: safety, health, learning, civic engagement, and economic resilience.

Every city can build its own Chamber (locally owned, nationally supported) to make connection measurable, visible, and actionable.

We have selected five founding chapters that are launching in 2026 and are now working to help support early stage chapters with a goal to launch at least a dozen new chapters in 2027.

Seed a Chapter in 2026

While we launch our five founding chapters, you can start the process of piloting your Chamber of Connection today.

We have seed chapters starting to form in 16 cities and it is growing every month.

  1. Create Your Welcome Committee
    Welcome Committees are forming in 16 cities and growing. Recruit 100 members to become a seed chapter. Just have your volunteers sign up on our site and we will train and organizing the community with you.

  2. Celebrate Welcome Week
    Engage your Welcome Committee to host events during Welcome Week (Sept 26 - Oct 4) to celebrate connection and build awareness.

  3. Start a Community Builder Network
    Begin to gather community builders in your city to support each other and host social club fairs. Once you have 20 members, we can help you formalize the program.

  4. Attend the Connected Cities Summit
    Join leaders from across the country working to build the infrastructure of connection. Our first event will be October 15-16 in Seattle.

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What is a Chamber of Connection?

A Chamber of Connection is a new kind of civic institution that rallies a city to build social connection, community, and trust. Together, chapters across the country are coming together to reconnect the nation.

Every Chamber is locally owned and nationally supported nonprofit. The local Chapter leads the work on the ground, while the US Chamber of Connection provides the backbone — shared frameworks (Six Points of Connection), national volunteer and community builder platforms, data and measurement, program models, and cross-city learning.

The first Chamber launched in Seattle in 2025, quickly demonstrating the model’s value: a coordinated newcomer strategy, new civic rituals, partnerships with arts and sports organizations, and a growing network of community builders. We have selected and launching five founding chapters in 2026.

Be the catalyst.

If you would like to speak to a member of our team about seeding a chapter, please be in touch to start a conversation.

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