Growth Social Volunteering Professionals

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Mountain View, CA, US

About us

Are you thinking of making friends and extend your social circle by going volunteering, learning things, or doing good together? You are looking at the right place.

If you dig deeper, you will find us actually a social org :).

The things we do are very simple, meaningful things in beautiful settings, so connections happen organically, from shared purpose and experience.

Friendship through civic engagements and shared learnings. That is us - the volunteers, the working professionals, a volunteer community that runs events, for the new in towns, the young professionals etc. people in transition.

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So if there is a union for volunteers that do so socially, excluding the court ordered and school requested ones, that would probably be us :). Yes, most of us are professionals active in their fields, and we take care of our volunteers, mostly from the social side as well. In doing so, we also take on organizing social for the general community as our duty.

First thing you will notice that we are active mostly in public community events, from huge city parades to suburb town festivals to professional conferences, down to neighborhood fairs, and even other meetups. Perfect occasions for you to join, go places & meet people, check things out, with a group.

Second is our activities are structured, geared towards more interaction between participants. We recruit and provide volunteer hosts in guiding small group based social, call for after event hosts and social, and facilitate follow up social afterwards. So one event, you have 3 chances to know people more to get connected.

Third is we encourage active participation rather than passive following in our events. As you can read from above, you can volunteer to be an in-event one day host, after-event social host, or follow up social host. We set the stage, you step up and shine.

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These are the main kinds of volunteering and social we do:

Outdoor, with state parks and other nature orgs.
Civic, with festivals, big community events etc.
Professional, with conferences & expos
Social, we organize community social as a service.

If you are a transplant, community involvement gives belonging. So if you are going through life stage changes, you could take good use of these activities, find your people, (re)build your network, and settle here as your new home base,

So these self-aid and community building is directly in proportion to your social engagement. The more you volunteer & host, the more chances of connection you will make. In hunger of more social chances? Participate and host.

There are different roles to play in helping with a social event, ranking up:
Guide: Be there, be seen
Connector: Talk with people, get people connected.
Host: Read the room, read group's energy. Facilitate others to step up.
Captain: Adapt & organize event series.

We started as festival volunteers organizing social, and we plan to stay true to our community roots. We believe people & social skills can be picked up, as we did. So no charisma required to participate and help yourself, then others. A warm heart, a willingness to try will do. Come to meet your fellow others that share a community heart.

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We cooperate with many orgs around town, so you may see our events posted in other places as well.

And our goal? A gateway to local community social, a connection layer to community events, a student activity center for post-college life, a social engine for connections, a town square for professionals. Oh, have we mentioned some salt? :)

Join an event. Introduce yourself. Find your people. Build the belonging you have been waiting for.

At the end of day, we want to provide belonging, warmth, shared purpose, a human face that says "you're welcome here."

So, Welcome aboard :)

Visit us at: https://www.townflame.org