Connecting for Change Leadership Dinner Series

Pull up a chair with changemakers and leaders—expand your network, forge genuine and authentic connections, and leave inspired to shape change that matters to you. 

Bridging sectors, igniting solutions. 

CONNECT

Build authentic relationships with diverse leaders and changemakers. 

CATALYZE CHANGE

Turn meaningful conversations into lasting, real-world impact.

IGNITE CURIOSITY

Be inspired though cross-sectoral connections which fuel fresh ideas 

Join us JULY 10th in
Toronto

THEME: COLLECTIVE RESILIENCE—gather with cross‑sector leaders for a family‑style, plant‑based dinner on a scenic rooftop as we strengthen our shared capacity to navigate and transform an ever‑challenging world.

CHEF: Sarah Garcia 

Sarah Garcia-Heller is the founder of Side Hustle Catering Toronto, a plant-based catering and meal delivery company. With a background in community kitchens and nonprofit work, Sarah built Side Hustle as a way to stay connected and nourish her community through food during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Born from a desire to normalize vegetarian cuisine as tasty, satisfying, and approachable, Side Hustle Catering celebrates both common and unexpected ingredients. Sarah’s menus showcase inventive plant-based dishes that highlight bold flavours and creative combinations, aiming to challenge assumptions about what vegetarian food can be. Her work is rooted in community care, and every dish reflects her belief that food can be both nourishing and joyful.

LOCATION AND CHARITABLE PARTNER: 13th Round Boxing Gym 

13th Round Fight for Life Boxing Gym is a purpose built boxing gym dedicated to sharing the art, skill and benefits of boxing with our local community through paid memberships while also offering free boxing programs to youth. 13th Round is a registered charity with proceeds from paid memberships funding our free youth programs.

We are honored to support this organization while hosting the dinner on their beautiful rooftop patio.

Our dinners are curated or an intimate experience of 12 people.
We are already half sold out, get your seat today 

What makes our dinners unique

Authentic Cross-Sectoral Connections Which Catalyze Real Time Collaboration. 

DIVERSITY 

Skip the usual siloed mixers—our curated dinners unite diverse leaders for diverse sectors and backgrounds for rich conversation that sparks growth, change, and real collective impact.

UNIQUE THEMES TO EACH DINNER

Gather in distinctive venues where top local chefs serve creative family‑style feasts—each dinner’s unique theme weaves into our larger mission of Connecting for Change, sparking authentic connection and collective impact.

GIVING BACK 

 Proceeds from all of our dinners go towards a local charity or grassroots organization  / community initiative. 

Different charity is featured at each dinner.
  

Kind Words from Diners 

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Photos and Videos by Pasky Photography. 
"To know that there's so many people doing such great work in our city, and we pass each other and don't really know about the wonderful work that everyone's doing. So it's been really amazing to hear everyone's stories and everyone's initiatives and projects and new collaborations are forging. New friendships are cultivating, and it's really exciting. There's an inspiring energy going around"

Our Pricing Model 

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Community Plate

This is our  accessible plate.

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$180

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CHEF's PLATE 

This is our standard plate.

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$225

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Extra Plate

This our pay it forward plate and it includes one free seat for a young leader.

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$330

Ticket Tiers, Simplified

  • Chef’s Plate – Covers top‑rate pay for our chef, fair wages for the venue team, and a donation to a local charity.

  • Community Plate – A subsidized seat made affordable by Chef’s Plate sales. Includes charitable donation.

  • Extra Plate – Funds one Chef’s Plate and gifts a Community Plate to an emerging community changemaker.

If your company is sending you, feel free to expense your ticket as professional development.


GRAB YOUR SEAT TODAY

We work on a tiered pricing model, more info can be found here

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HONORING WHERE WE ARE- Land Acknowledgement

Even though we work globally, our offices are on the traditional unceded territory of Huron-Wendat, Anishinabek, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and The Mississaugas of the Credit River First Nations.  As treaty people on this land, we acknowledge the collective, yet uniquely, and individually distinct responsibility of repairing the harms and preventing further harm caused by the White supremacist, colonial, systems which impact all parts of society, and which are directly responsible for the violent physical and cultural genocide of Indigenous peoples across Turtle Island, and the forced enslavement of people of African decent on these lands.

In our work we are accountable to all care practices that are not entangled with, and structured in punishment, surveillance and control. Care practices which are land based, and built on mutual support. Practices indigenous to all of our ancestors, and stolen from many. In our work we bring the history of our own individual ancestries, as well as the rich genealogy of deep lineage of care present in Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (QTBIPoC) communities. Communities from which self-determined care has been stolen through the legacy and present day reality of colonialism, supremacy and binary based systems. We actively center the QTBIPOC voices and aim to ensure that we are taking leadership in care by those who experience most harm.
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