Our CommUNITY Campaign
Introducing...Our CommUNITY Campaign!
Our new annual fundraising campaign is part celebration and part fundraiser. We’re celebrating our first full year back since our relaunch in March 2023, and honoring the community that makes Transformation Table possible - from our guests, hosts, chefs, and Tamadas to local partners and sponsors. We wouldn’t exist without them. This campaign is with our community, for our community!
Leading up to our 8th anniversary on November 19th and through Giving Season, we’re hosting events from alumni gatherings, dinners and bake sales to help us reach our goal of $150,000 to support our mission-based programming and organizational sustainability. With this funding, our goal is to maintain the accessibility of our dinners, host more dinners, expand to other communities, and increase our staff. We can’t survive without these funds. We need your support more than ever!
Transformation Table’s mission is to create space among strangers of different backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences to come together to see, hear and understand one another - to find those little points of connection that allows us to see each other’s humanity. Using shared meals as a tool for connection, we support communities to promote cross-cultural understanding, combat hate, and promote peace and equity.
Our 2023 impact survey among past dinner guests, hosts and chefs:
78% of respondents said that eating a meal from the chef’s country of origin caused them to think differently about that culture.
86% of individuals said that they connected with someone they otherwise would not have because of the dinner.
51% agreed that their Transformation Table experience facilitated collaboration beyond the dinner.
55% agreed that as a result of sharing a meal with strangers shifted their mindset.
“We have reached an inflection point within our organization. Without your support, we can’t build upon the impact of our dinners and go deeper and broader and to support connections beyond the table and back out into the community.”
There are so many ways to support us during our campaign:
Engage in our Community: Participate in fundraising events. Check out our community calendar to see what events we’ve got going on! We will update as we add more events.
Create your own Community: Create your own Transformation Table event or meet up!
Share our Community: Share our content, share contacts with us, share our events, emails and connect us with people looking to get involved!
Invest in Community: Donate! Explore the different ways you can make a monetary contribution.
Ready to get involved or donate? Learn more about the campaign or sign up today!