Episode #
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Revolutionizing Support Communities and Humanizing Bereavement with Carla Fernandez from The Dinner Party
Carla Fernandez is a social entrepreneur and cofounder of The Dinner Party, an innovative nonprofit organization on a mission to transform life after loss from an isolating experience into one marked by community support, candid conversation, and forward movement using the age old practice of breaking bread. Carla joins Cause & Purpose to share her founding story and lessons learned from a life spent pursuing positive social impact. Traditional bereavement support groups can feel sterile, awkward, and somehow impersonal. Millennials experience grief and loss differently from previous generations, and are looking elsewhere for resources to help them cope.
44 minutes
Topics:
Community Building
Health
When social entrepreneur and cause marketer Carla Fernandez was forced to confront her grief after the death of her father, she found the existing support systems available to she and her peers woefully lacking. Rather than accept the status quo, Carla and her cofounder, Lennon Flowers created The Dinner Party, an innovative nonprofit organization on a mission to transform life after loss from an isolating experience into one marked by community support, candid conversation, and forward movement using the age old practice of breaking bread.
In this episode, Carla shares her inspiration, stories from the field, and lessons learned as she launched and scaled her organization.
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