You feel the pull of "things in our world need to change"
You feel the pull of "things in our world need to change"
Join us and help shape the rooms, relationships, and collaborations that bring that to life.
Join us and help shape the rooms, relationships, and collaborations that bring that to life.
Steward’s Circle is for change drivers who want more than simple networking or ideas. They want actionable change and a powerful community that builds it together.
Bringing very different kinds of people with very different lives and perspectives together to break bread is our best hope for the future.
- Lucia Cesaroni (former dinner guest)
- Lucia Cesaroni (former dinner guest)
If you feel the call, this is your next step:
If you feel the call, this is your next step:
You get to shape not just the Connecting for Change dinners but the entire ecosystem behind it. Build:
- Honest conversations across sectors,
- Meaningful connections,
- Momentum that continue
Steward’s Circle puts ideas into connections which build action.
WHY STEWARD'S CIRCLE?
WHY STEWARD'S CIRCLE?
Connecting for Change was built to move people from siloed conversations into meaningful collaboration.
Steward’s Circle is where members co-create what comes next.
Members influence:
Steward’s Circle is where members co-create what comes next.
Members influence:
- Dinner themes and conversation design
- Guest mix and relationship pathways
- Sponsorship and partner alignment
- Alumni engagement and expansion into new cities
- Ecosystem building and change
What your membership helps build
What your membership helps build
As a Steward’s Circle member, you directly support the development of:
- Future dinner themes and stronger conversation design
- Trust-based relationships across sectors
- A living alumni network with year-round connection points
- A scalable model for future city gatherings, so that our change can become collective and global
You are not just attending the next chapter, you are helping bring in real collective impact.
Membership Tiers
Membership Tiers
Choose the level of involvement that matches your capacity right now.
All tiers include influence, connection, and a shared role in what comes next.
All tiers include influence, connection, and a shared role in what comes next.
This isn’t a passive membership.
It’s a practical way to stay connected, influence what gets built, and help create meaningful cross-sector collaboration, without adding heavy lift to your schedule.
It’s a practical way to stay connected, influence what gets built, and help create meaningful cross-sector collaboration, without adding heavy lift to your schedule.
Circle Contributor
Circle Contributor
Best for: For people who want consistent input and early access without a heavy lift.
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WHAT YOU RECEIVE
- Monthly Creation Prompt access
- Opportunity to submit ideas (themes, questions, charities, chefs, venues)
- Early access ticket window
- Access to the Annual All-Member Gathering
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YOUR PARTICIPATION
- Respond to at least 4 Creation Prompts per year
- Share at least 1 practical action each quarter
- Suggest or connect at least 1 aligned charity, venue, or chef per year
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Circle Curator
Circle Curator
Best for: Members who want deeper curation influence and quarterly strategy input.
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WHAT YOU RECEIVE
- Access to Curator Room where we jointly make decisions on next dinner / alumni events
- Priority seat-hold window
- Nominate up to 2 community members for community seats
- Curator preview
- Access to the Annual All-Member Gathering
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YOUR PARTICIPATION
- Attend at least 2 Curator Room sessions per year
- Contribute to curation and development
- Share or connect at least 2 sponsor/patron leads or partner ideas per year
- Contribute at least 1 action per year to alumni growth or city expansion
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Steward Patron
Steward Patron
Best for: Leaders ready to support strategic growth, long-term sustainability and impact.
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WHAT YOU RECEIVE
- Guaranteed seat at the sponsored dinner + 1 complimentary guest
- Strategic input on curation, including guest list direction
- Recognition in campaign and published materials
- Year-end impact report
- Opportunity to share brief remarks at the sponsored dinner
- Access to the Annual All-Member Gathering
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YOUR PARTICIPATION
- Support sponsor development through strategic introductions/ideas
- Advise on alumni strategy and city expansion priorities
- Champion values and long-term sustainability
- Invite aligned guests from your network to upcoming dinners
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How it all works.
Participation is tier-based, with different levels of access and contribution.
All tiers share a clear communication rhythm:
Designed to be lightweight, practical, and high-impact.
All tiers share a clear communication rhythm:
- Email-first updates, prompts, and invitations
- Asynchronous idea-sharing and feedback loops
- Virtual curation sessions (Curator + Founder Patron tiers)
- One in-person Annual All-Member Gathering
Designed to be lightweight, practical, and high-impact.
What is the Monthly Creation Prompt?
What is the Monthly Creation Prompt?
What is the Curator Room?
What is the Curator Room?
A short monthly question members respond to that helps shape upcoming dinners and curation.
One focused prompt gathers insight that informs themes, guests, format, and connection pathways.
One focused prompt gathers insight that informs themes, guests, format, and connection pathways.
A quarterly, members-only curation session (up to 60 minutes) for Circle Curator members.
It’s a focused conversation to shape themes, discussion questions, and who should be in the room.
It’s a focused conversation to shape themes, discussion questions, and who should be in the room.
Terms
- Memberships are individual only; organizations participate through sponsorship pathways.
- Monthly plans auto-renew until canceled.
- Annual plans include 12 months of access.
- Cancellation stops future billing; access remains through the paid period.
- Benefits/programming may evolve with advance notice.
- All membership payments are non-refundable.
- Participation is coordinated via email
What this is not.
What this is not.
The Steward's Circle is for people who believe that to make change we need diverse voices and experiences at the table and we need to do it together. It is for people who want to be active in this change making. Meaning, this is not a place where you just "show up and sit back", or just fill out some surveys and call it a day.
It is a space where you bring your ideas, your knowledge, your connections, and your money to the table to collectively decide how do we grow conversations and communities which can work together to make change.
Its not a place to "network" or "grow your business" or look for a "mentor". It is a place where everyone is an equal participant in creating change together, in deciding how to shape the future that we are collectively building, and that impacts all of us. The opportunities are endless, this is our anchor in making sense of them and creating something that makes our world a bit easier for us all.
Values
Values
Reciprocity over extraction
Reciprocity over extraction
Cross-sector curiosity
Cross-sector curiosity
Integrity and collective care
Integrity and collective care
Action-oriented collaboration
Action-oriented collaboration
Help shape what comes next!
Help shape what comes next!
FAQs
FAQs
Is Steward’s Circle for new guests only, or past attendees too?
Is Steward’s Circle for new guests only, or past attendees too?
It’s open to both. If you’ve attended before, Steward’s Circle is your pathway to help shape future dinners.
Can I join immediately?
Can I join immediately?
Yes. Enrolment is open now on a rolling basis while capacity remains in each tier. First Curation Circle and Creation Prompt will be taking place in March.
What is the difference between Contributor and Curator?
What is the difference between Contributor and Curator?
Contributor is designed for consistent idea input through prompts and submissions. Curator includes quarterly curation sessions and deeper planning influence.
Is Steward Patron a membership or sponsorship?
Is Steward Patron a membership or sponsorship?
Founder Patron is the top individual membership tier and includes sponsoring one dinner experience plus strategic input.
Can my company buy memberships for our team?
Can my company buy memberships for our team?
At this stage, memberships are individual only. Companies can participate through the Sponsorship Pathway. Contact Us for more info on Sponsorship Pathways.
Can I cancel a monthly membership anytime?
Can I cancel a monthly membership anytime?
Yes. Cancellation stops future billing, and access continues through the current paid period.
Do you offer refunds?
Do you offer refunds?
No. All membership payments are non-refundable.
What does the Annual All-Member Gathering include?
What does the Annual All-Member Gathering include?
A facilitated gathering focused on connection, shared learning, and shaping priorities for the year ahead, while building across sectors.
Have other questions?
Have other questions?
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.
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.