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Launch a Chamber of Connection in Your City

A Chamber of Connection serves as the backbone for connection in a city—aligning local institutions, leaders, and residents around a shared goal:

Ensuring everyone has access to community and connection, especially during life transitions (new parents, career transitions, relocation, health challenges, retiring, starting school, etc.), through the Six Points of Connection.

This work is led by a Connection Council—a cross-sector group of leaders who guide the strategy, identify gaps, and coordinate action across the city.

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.

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What is a Chamber of Connection?

A local Chamber supports and coordinates efforts across the city, including:

  • Aligning institutions around key life transitions
    So people moving, starting jobs, becoming parents, or retiring are consistently welcomed into community

  • Supporting community builders
    Training and connecting the people already creating gatherings, clubs, and shared experiences

  • Activating neighborhood volunteers
    Making it easy for residents to host, gather, and build relationships at the block level

  • Leading citywide moments like Welcome Week
    Creating shared rituals that normalize reaching out, participating, and welcoming others

  • Strengthening third places and cultural institutions
    Helping libraries, arts organizations, and local spaces become hubs of interaction and connection

  • Informing local policy and investment
    Working with civic leaders to remove barriers and invest in what builds connection

  • Shaping the city’s narrative
    Building a shared story that this is a place where people show up, participate, and take care of each other

Seed a Chapter in 2026

While we grow in Seattle and 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 30 cities and it is growing every month.

Local Chambers of Connection are members of the US Chamber of Connection but independent organizations.

How a City Gets Started

Cities, whether 25k people or 10 million, don’t start with a full chapter. They begin by activating what already exists.

Common starting points include:

  • A network of neighborhood volunteers (e.g., 25 local residents) creating small, consistent opportunities for connection

  • A Community Builder Network to support and connect local leaders already hosting groups and gatherings

  • Participation in National Welcome Week, aligning local organizations around welcoming and integrating newcomers

These early efforts build momentum, surface local leaders, and demonstrate what’s possible.

What It Becomes

As the work grows, cities can establish a formal Chamber of Connection chapter with:

  • Dedicated local staff to coordinate and scale the work

  • A Connection Council representing key sectors across the city

  • A shared strategy aligned to the Six Points of Connection and key life transitions

  • Ongoing programs and partnerships that ensure connection is built into the fabric of the city

Most cities rely on individuals to figure out connection on their own.

A Chamber of Connection helps a city take shared ownership—so connection becomes something that is designed, supported, and sustained together.

Be the catalyst.

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

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