Itasca Project is partnering with Marnita’s Table to seek 100 home hosts or co-hosts who want to engage in radical hospitality through our model of Intentional Social Interaction (IZIs)! So far 129 hosts have been trained and 16 GenConnect dinner parties have been tracked.

GenConnect is uniting people across generations who may never have met before but who share similar interests and concerns in our community inspiring deeper conversations and enduring relationships. Hosts and Co-Hosts are holding dinner parties with support from Marnita’s Table and the Itasca Project and together with their guests and community members, over great food, we are building capacity for collaborative undertakings, ultimately creating and supporting ongoing relationships that catalyze participants to work together more effectively toward actionable equity-building efforts within our community.

At GenConnect training, dinner party hosts choose from seven engaging dinner party topics and learn tips and tricks for hosting a fun and inclusive dinner party. Each training guest receives their own materials for throwing an exciting and transformational dinner party for diverse guests across generations!

How to get involved:

• Please check back for more training dates or email Lauren@marnitastable.org for more information on how to get involved
• Pair up with someone that has been trained and co-host a dinner party together
• Volunteer at a dinner party

Have you been involved with GenConnect? Share your GenConnect stories on social media with the hashtag #iGenConnect!

What is Marnita’s Table?
A Minneapolis based non-profit founded in 2005, Marnita’s Table seeks to measurably increase social capital across race, class, culture, gender and other means of self-identity in order to catalyze transformational change where racial and cultural differences are not viewed as deficits or merely tolerated, but instead viewed as assets. Experts at social capital building, in the past ten years we’ve welcomed over 54,000 people from around the world and the around the way to find common ground while breaking bread. Check out www.marnitastable.org/izi for more information on our model and the work we do.

What is the Itasca Project?
The Itasca Project is a virtual organization dedicated to collaborative efforts toward regional economic vitality, quality of life, and prosperity for all. For more information, please visit our website at www.theitascaproject.com.