Stay in Touch Foundation — Connection Before Crisis
Stay in Touch Foundation

We reach people before the crisis, not after.

Everyone else waits for the fire. We're building the nation's first foundation devoted to connection as prevention, meeting people where they are, before things fall apart.

Crisis response treats the fire. We get to the root before it starts.
Isolation, distress, and disconnection don't begin as emergencies. They build quietly. We're reimagining how communities meet people early, through real human connection.
What we do

Connection is the intervention.

The Stay in Touch Foundation strengthens communities through real human connection. We create the in-person moments, and the support around them, that keep people from ever reaching the edge.

In-person events

Concerts, workshops, and songwriting programs that blend art, music, and education, and bring people together face to face.

Our core work

The listening line

We support Call the Moms and Dads, a free line for people who just need to talk, before things get to be too much.

Launching late 2026

The community fund

A growing endowment to catch neighbors through hardship, an emergency they can't cover, even keeping a pet healthy.

In development
Who we build for

Safe, welcoming spaces for people who've felt unseen.

Our events aren't just concerts and workshops. They're places to belong, built with real understanding of what it means to feel on the outside. We meet people where they are, with creativity, conversation, and community.

Young adults aging out of foster care Newcomers to a city Anyone who's felt isolated or unseen
The vision ahead

Building the endowment that catches people when they fall.

We're building toward a community endowment fund designed to help neighbors through the moments that isolate them most, an unexpected emergency, a hard season, even keeping a beloved pet healthy when the vet bill comes and there's nowhere else to turn.

This is what it looks like to get to the root before it becomes a crisis. And it's just beginning, which means there's a ground floor to build on.

Two ways to give

Give what you can, or help build the whole thing.

Give a Gift

Any amount. Every dollar strengthens the work.
  • Tax donation receipt
  • Annual impact report
  • The S.I.T. newsletter
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Become a Founding Partner

Transformational and legacy gifts help build the infrastructure of a national first, and name a part of it.
  • A named role in what we build
  • Direct partnership with our founder
  • Ground-floor legacy in a new category
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Born in Columbia, South Carolina. Powered by the University of South Carolina's Capstone Program. Growing nationally. This is the ground floor of a new way to care for communities.

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