Join the National Social Connection Corps Now

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Join the National Social Connection Corps Now ☆

Our mission is to end loneliness and empower belonging for all

BELONGING IS

ACCEPTANCE

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BELONGING IS

COMMUNITY

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BELONGING IS

HOSPITALITY

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BELONGING IS

LISTENING

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BELONGING IS

RESPONDING

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BELONGING IS

UNIVERSAL

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BELONGING IS

PRESENCE

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BELONGING IS

EMBRACE

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BELONGING IS

HEALING

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BELONGING IS

HUMAN

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BELONGING IS

MAGNETIC

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BELONGING IS

VALIDATION

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BELONGING IS

PERSPECTIVE

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BELONGING IS

KINDNESS

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BELONGING IS

LOVE

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BELONGING IS

EXPRESSION

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BELONGING IS

CONFIDENCE

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BELONGING IS

COLORFUL

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BELONGING IS

STRENGTH

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BELONGING IS

MOVEMENT

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BELONGING IS ACCEPTANCE ✦ BELONGING IS COMMUNITY ✦ BELONGING IS HOSPITALITY ✦ BELONGING IS LISTENING ✦ BELONGING IS RESPONDING ✦ BELONGING IS UNIVERSAL ✦ BELONGING IS PRESENCE ✦ BELONGING IS EMBRACE ✦ BELONGING IS HEALING ✦ BELONGING IS HUMAN ✦ BELONGING IS MAGNETIC ✦ BELONGING IS VALIDATION ✦ BELONGING IS PERSPECTIVE ✦ BELONGING IS KINDNESS ✦ BELONGING IS LOVE ✦ BELONGING IS EXPRESSION ✦ BELONGING IS CONFIDENCE ✦ BELONGING IS COLORFUL ✦ BELONGING IS STRENGTH ✦ BELONGING IS MOVEMENT ✦

Meet us at our peer-led Belong Circles across the country!

  • Belong Circle Washington DC

    Tuesday, April 1

    7 - 9pm EDT

    Giggle Water DC

    1333 P Street Northwest Washington, DC 20005

    RSVP HERE

  • Belong Circle Phoenix

    Tuesday, April 1

    7 - 8:30pm MST

    Let's Meet Up!

    3058 North 16th Street Phoenix, AZ 85016

    RSVP HERE

  • Belong Circle Portland

    Sunday, April 6

    11am - 12:30pm PDT

    Park Studios PDX

    17033 Southeast McLoughlin Boulevard #unit d Portland, OR 97267

    RSVP HERE

  • Belong Circle Chicago

    Monday, April 7

    7 - 8:30pm CDT

    ALTAR Community

    2518 West Armitage Avenue Chicago, IL 60647

    RSVP HERE

  • Belong Circle Michigan

    Monday, April 7

    7:30 - 9pm EDT

    CenterPeace Healing and Event Center: Farmington

    33750 Freedom Road Farmington, MI 48335

    RSVP NOW

  • Belong Circle LA 6.0

    Monday, April 7

    6 - 8pm PDT

    MUD\WTR :gather

    2515 Main Street Santa Monica, CA 90405

    RSVP HERE

  • Belong Circle Miami

    Tuesday, April 8

    7 - 9 pm EDT

    Dear Eleanor

    148 Northeast 28th Street Miami, FL 33137

    RSVP HERE

  • Belong Circle NYC

    Wednesday, April 16

    7 - 9 pm EDT

    Sprout Society

    449 Troutman Street Brooklyn, NY 11237

    RSVP HERE

  • Belong Circle Twin Cities

    Sunday, April 20

    11am - 12:30pm CDT

    SOUL Ballroom

    76 Nathan Lane North Plymouth, MN 55441

    RSVP HERE

  • Belong Circle Denver

    Wednesday, April 23

    7 - 8:30 pm MDT

    Table Public House

    2190 South Platte River Drive Denver, CO 80223

    RSVP HERE

  • Belong Circle Austin

    Saturday, April 26

    10:30am - 12pm CDT

    My Vinyasa Practice

    8534 South Congress Avenue #Building 2 Austin, TX 78745

    RSVP HERE

  • Belong Circle Nashville

    Wednesday, April 30

    7 - 8:30pm CDT. Doors at 6:50pm

    Faeker's Theatre

    2612 Winford Avenue Nashville, TN 37211

    RSVP HERE

  • Belong Circle Los Angeles 7.0

    Saturday, May 3

    2:30 - 4pm PDT

    Flow Life Sanctuary

    2536 Lincoln Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90291

    RSVP HERE

  • Belong Circle Charlotte

    Saturday, May 10

    1:30 - 3:30pm EDT

    4429 South Blvd

    4429 South Boulevard Charlotte, NC 28209

    RSVP HERE

Join the National Social Connection Corps App!

Designed to help people create social connection and belonging in their own neighborhoods, on their own timelines, in easy, frequent, and spontaneous ways.

We’re a national movement of everyday humans who go into the wild to spark connection and belonging one RASCAL (random act of social connection and love) at a time.

The leading cause of depression is loneliness.

1 in 4 people worldwide are experiencing loneliness

Meta-Gallup Study, 2023

Loneliness has the same impact on our mortality as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

The average time spent spent engaging with friends was 60 minutes a day in 2003 and decreased to 20 minutes a day in 2020.

43% of Americans feel they don’t have meaningful relationships (e.g. people to talk to about how they really are)

Cigna Corporation., 2018

Single-person households accounted for 13% of all U.S. households in 1960. It more than doubled to 29% of all households in 2022.

Our Plan

Belong Center has a preventative and joyful approach to ending loneliness, rather than pathologizing our human experience. In 2025 we will…

  • Develop our Belong Circles program of in-person gatherings across the country as well as our Belong Corps team of volunteers to support and facilitate.

  • Launch a mobile app that inspires and activates people to do acts of social connection and belonging across the country

  • Build culture shifting campaigns on loneliness and isolation through social media, events, and OOH marketing.

  • Kick off our Block Party Challenge to encourage stronger relationships with our neighbors

  • Launch Belong Benches across major markets to create public spaces for connection and belonging.

  • Fund and launch an academic study on the importance of collective dance and joy to address loneliness, in partnership with UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center.

  • And more to come!

We are building a research backed, multifaceted roadmap to address loneliness and isolation nationwide.

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Our Board

  • Radha Agrawal

    Founder and CEO, DAYBREAKER, Co-Founder, THINX, and author

  • Dr. Mark Hyman

    5X NYTimes bestselling author, leader in Functional Medicine

  • Kimbal Musk

    Entrepreneur, philanthropist and co-founder of The Kitchen Restaurant Group

  • Lynne Twist

    Award-winning speaker, author, fundraiser, and global activist

  • Randall Mays

    Philanthropist, businessman, investor, and CEO of Running M Capital

  • Dr. James Pawelski

    Director of Education in the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania

  • Ping Fu

    Co-Founder and former CEO of Geomagic, a 3D software development company

  • Dr. Dacher Keltner

    Professor of Psychology at the UCAL Berkeley, and the Faculty Director of the Greater Good Science Center

  • Miki Agrawal

    Founder, TUSHY & WILD, Co-Founder, THINX

  • Eli Clark-Davis

    Co-Founder, DAYBREAKER

  • Timothy Patch

    Co-Founder, DAYBREAKER

  • David Yarus

    Founder of J-Swipe, founder mllnnl

  • Karine Plantadit

    Former principal dancer at Alvin Ailey, lead cast in “The Lion King” and “Come Fly Away”

  • Aine Kimsey

    Breathwork practitioner, instructor, and community builder

  • Paavo Siljamäki

    Paavo Siljamäki

    Dance music artist and member of Above & Beyond

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