Growth Social Volunteering Professionals

4.8•164 ratings

Mountain View, CA, US

About us

Are you a working professional? 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 :). For volunteers, community builders of working professionals.

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

Friendship through civic engagements and shared learnings. That is us - an aspiring volunteer & builder community that runs events.

Send us your new in towns, the young professionals, the transplants, the job seekers, the singles, all those that could use new connections.

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Under the hood, we are actually a volunteer-boned, community-builder-muscled social ecosystem.

You take actions to improve your own situation, that is a builder. You willingly impact others with your actions, that is a "social" volunteer. Simple like that.

Two things set us apart from simply another meetup group: We do more productive social, vs consuming type; we do stateful social, vs the often observed stateless ones. For builders at least.

Volunteering is where we come from, it is also a format we do team building. By all the social formats we have observed so far, group volunteering is the most effective and efficient way to build bonding, aka trust, among people.

By group volunteering, we mean those that facilitates social, like in festivals, in state or local parks etc.. Not the punishment type handed down by traffic court.

Attention is the currency of meetups. We organize community social as our service, to build up our own community, yet it isn't free. We try to match the attention economy to people's contributions or efforts, so making it more fair.

We believe in people's self determination, we also believe in community builders' group collective power, as well as volunteers' active engagement in changing the social context.

We root our activities in local community events, we cooperate with orgs, businesses and individuals that are doing good. We provide social ladder roles that people can try, stages they shine on, resolving their social needs, also bringing others along.

We participate local community events, as attendees, as volunteers, civic, outdoor, professional or more. We organize local regional social infra walks, so to receive people incoming, so they can launch their social life again.

We build up connections, and create belongings. We believe all good deeds should be rewarded, in relationship, if not in finance. We believe in stateful social, thus relationship compounds, thus community.

We started as festival volunteers wanting social, and expanded to organizing social in community events, our current mission is to be the receiving end of local community social. We believe people & social skills can be picked up, as we did. So no charisma required to participate, help yourself, then others. Warm heart, willingness to try, will do.

If you have read so far, you may seriously consider trying it out with us, and join this fellow community of builders. We are exploring, and learning, from our mistakes, which are often, and successes, which did happen at times :). A lot of people make complaints, some take actions. The result of social roulette can be changed, as we are doing. So why wouldn't you join us, to fail on the action side? Ha.

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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 working professionals, a social neighborhoods dotted by community builders. Yes, some kind of salt.

Build with us, then socials would follow.

At the end of day,

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