A gym membership for your social life.
Quilt brings the same small group of people together, again and again, with a host who knows every name. Dinners, outings and volunteer days in Brooklyn, for adults starting a new chapter.
For when your social life just reset.
Some moments break a whole network at once. Quilt is built for them.
Empty nesters
The house got quiet, and the school-parent network went with it.
New in town
A new city, a new job, and nobody to call on a Saturday.
Starting over
After a divorce, the couple friends split too. Building again at 45 is hard.
Between jobs
Leaving the office means losing the faces you saw every day.
Same faces, again and again.
Most social apps give you a new table of strangers every week. Friendships don't form that way; they form with the people you keep running into.
Your quilt is a standing group of 6 to 10 people who meet across formats for 8 to 12 weeks, with a trained host who notices the quiet person and makes the introduction.
What a month can include
- Dinner parties
- Produced by Quilt, in homes and partner restaurants.
- Stranger dinners
- An easy first night out for new members.
- Outdoors
- Small hikes and camping trips, sized for conversation.
- Serving together
- Food kitchens, tutoring, community gardens and art workshops.
- Partner perks
- Promo codes for local shows, classes and small festivals.
What we skip on purpose: concerts and stadium sports. You can't talk to anyone there.
How it works
Come to a stranger dinner
Your first night is a low-stakes dinner with a few new people and a host who makes the introductions.
Meet your quilt
We place you in a standing group of 6 to 10 people near you, matched on where you are in life.
Keep showing up
For 8 to 12 weeks your quilt meets across dinners, outings and volunteer days. Same faces every time.
Pass it on
Once your circle is solid, become a mentor who welcomes new groups, or train as a coach who leads them.
Show up for your block.
Quilts serve together. Doing something useful side by side is the easiest way for strangers to become friends, and it makes a neighborhood feel like yours.
- Food kitchens
- Mentoring
- Tutoring
- Community gardens
- Art workshops
- Career prep
- Local live music
- Small festivals
Priced like a gym, not a streaming service.
Quilt is an investment in the next chapter of your life, and it's built for people who show up. A membership you actually feel is one you actually use.
$100/month
- A standing quilt of 6 to 10 people and a trained host
- Produced dinner parties, outings and volunteer days
- A stranger dinner to start
- Perks at partner venues
Sponsored and sliding-scale seats. Some members are covered by an employer, a wellness benefit or an outplacement program. If $100 is out of reach right now, tell us when you join the waitlist.
A public benefit corporation
Quilt is a public benefit corporation based in Brooklyn. Our charter commits us to helping people build lasting local friendships, so we measure success by how often members see each other again, not by how many months we bill.
Hosts and coaches are trained in facilitation and safety and are background-checked. Quilt is a social club, not therapy or medical care.
Save a seat at the first table.
We're launching in one Brooklyn neighborhood first. Join the waitlist and we'll write when a quilt is forming near you.