About us
Are you thinking of making friends and extend your social circle by going volunteering, learning things, or doing good together? You are looking at the right place.
If you dig deeper, you will find us actually a social org :). For volunteers, and working professionals.
The things we do are very simple, meaningful things in beautiful settings, so connections happen naturally, from shared purpose and experience.
Friendship through civic engagements and shared learnings. That is us - an aspiring volunteer community that runs events.
Send us your new in towns, the young professionals, the transplants, the job seekers, the singles, all those that could use new connections.
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So if there is a guild for volunteers that do so socially, excluding the court ordered and school requested ones, that would probably be us :). Yes, most of us are professionals active in their fields, and we take care of our volunteers, mostly from the social side as well. In doing so, we also take on organizing social for the general community as our duty.
We are active mostly in public community events, from huge city parades to suburb town festivals to professional conferences, down to neighborhood fairs, and even other meetups. Perfect occasions for you to join, go places & meet people, check things out, with a group.
We encourage active participation, you can volunteer not only for others' events, but act as hosts as well. We set the stage, you step up and shine.
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These are the main kinds of volunteering and social we do:
- Outdoor, with state parks and other nature orgs.
- Civic, with festivals, big community events etc.
- Professional, with conferences & expos
- Social, we organize community social as a service.
If you are a transplant, community involvement gives belonging. So if you are going through life stage changes, you could take good use of these activities, find your people, (re)build your network, and settle here as your new home base,
So these self-aid and community building is directly in proportion to your social engagement. The more you volunteer & host, the more chances of connection you will make. In hunger of more social chances? Participate and host.
There are different roles to play in helping with a social event, ranking up:
Guide: Be there, be seen
Connector: Talk with people, get people connected.
Host: Read the room, read group's energy. Facilitate others to step up.
Captain: Adapt & organize event series.
We started as festival volunteers organizing social, and we plan to stay true to our community roots. We believe people & social skills can be picked up, as we did. So no charisma required to participate and help yourself, then others. A warm heart, a willingness to try will do. Come to meet your fellow others that share a community heart.
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We cooperate with many orgs around town, so you may see our events posted in other places as well.
And our goal? A gateway to local community social, a connection layer to community events, a student activity center for post-college life, a social engine for connections, a town square for working professionals. Oh, have we mentioned some salt? :)
Join an event. Introduce yourself. Find your people. Build the belonging you have been waiting for.
At the end of day, we want to provide belonging, warmth, shared purpose, a human face that says "you're welcome here."
So, Welcome aboard :)
Visit us at: https://www.townflame.org
Upcoming events
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Volunteering Party: Redwood Grove in Los Altos, Grassroots Ecology
Redwood Grove Nature Preserve, 482 University Avenue, Los Altos Hills, CA, USWhatsApp:
https://chat.whatsapp.com/CYOkJUepa723ZdU4seSnbzSearching for places to make friends? Thinking of finding something to do over the weekend, also meeting some people in the mean time, like hiking etc.? Join us in a Redwood Forest habitat restoration event in Los Altos, for the Aug 15th Sat. morning.
By our own experience, working side by side, in a beautiful setting, plays magic in relationship building. Thus we party, in group volunteering in these scenic parks.
Redwood Grove Nature Preserve in Los Altos is rated as a hidden treasure, tucked in a corner of Los Altos, next to its downtown, right in our backyard. 6 acres of open space, with wooden boardwalk. Check out its photos at:
https://www.yelp.com/biz/redwood-grove-nature-preserve-los-altosWe will be joining Grassroots Ecology's outdoor volunteering at the preserve, doing redwood forest habitat restoration, sheet mulching etc.. Registration and detailed info:
https://www.grassrootsecology.org/event-calendar/2026/08/15/volunteer-outdoors-redwood-groveAfter the shift, we will go group lunch in Los Altos downtown, making it a solid Sat. morning.
It has 18 openings, so register while you can. For volunteering, you must register with Grassroots Ecology to attend the event.
Meanwhile, it is a nice and rare enclave of redwood forest so close to us. You can also come to appreciate the forest if the volunteering part is full.
Street parking, or park at the nearby Shoup Park and walk over (0.2 mile).
Date: Aug 15 9-12pm
Location: Redwood Grove Nature Preserve, Los AltosJoin TownFlame, Make Life Happen.
Liability Waiver: Participation in TownFlame events is voluntary and involves social interaction in public spaces. Activities are designed to be inclusive and respectful. Participants assume all risks and release TownFlame, its organizers, volunteers, and affiliates from liability for injury, illness, or damages, except in cases of gross negligence or intentional misconduct.
By attending, participants acknowledge that photographs, audio, and video recordings may be taken during events, and grant TownFlame the right to use such media for promotional and marketing purposes, in any format or platform, without further consent or compensation.
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Golden Hour over Sunnyvale: Bay Trail Walk, Dune Sunset, Downtown Tour
Sunnyvale Bay Trail, 327 W Caribbean Dr, Sunnyvale, CA 94089, Sunnyvale, CA, USFriday evening, another weekend. Looking for something to do, and group intelligent discussion over the downtown open air dinner table? Follow us to event 3 of our mini Golden Hour cohort series, Sunnyvale visit.
Our first event visited downtown Mountain View for the city civic scene, our 2nd event is to visit Stanford for campus view, the 3rd is for natural scene in Sunnyvale. The purpose of this series is to give people the chance to see each other in different contexts, add understanding to each other, and possibly form mini cohort to do things together, in civic engagements, as participants, or as hosts.
The dune on the bay side, by the Park Run Sunnyvale site, is possibly the highest point in Sunnyvale, beyond buildings. It has wooden stairs all the way to the top, a great place to spend the golden hours.
The golden hour has the magic of light, possibly the best time to take photos. People open up, always colors to marvel, to remember.
The plan:
Location: Sunnyvale Bay Trail ParkRun
1. 6pm Meet at Park Run bay trail, under the foot of the wooden stair.
2. 6:15pm Walk along bay trail toward the west.
3. 7:15pm Back and climb up the dune, watch the day turn into night.
4. 7:45pm Leave for downtown.
5. 8pm Tour downtown Murphy street, find a place for group dinner. Optional.You may have heard that we are growing our team. So if you like leading such walks, a temporary break from our daily life, or sharing with others the beautiful natural or civc places in your city, talk with us. Let's be teammates :)
Collecting Panel Talk ideas and proposals. Plus, we are also collecting ideas for panel talks and proposals, for a panel talk discussion format we are going to host soon, for people to exchange thinkings in addition to social.
Parking: Street parking along the Caribbean drive.
Join TownFlame, Make Life Happen.
Liability Waiver: Participation in TownFlame events is voluntary and involves social interaction in public spaces. Activities are designed to be inclusive and respectful. Participants assume all risks and release TownFlame, its organizers, volunteers, and affiliates from liability for injury, illness, or damages, except in cases of gross negligence or intentional misconduct.
By attending, participants acknowledge that photographs, audio, and video recordings may be taken during events, and grant TownFlame the right to use such media for promotional and marketing purposes, in any format or platform, without further consent or compensation.
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Celebrate Palo Alto: Road to Festival of the Arts, via Stanford
Cantor Center of the Arts, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford, CA, USAre you new in town or transplants, want to explore more of the local scene? Are you young or single professionals, expect to meet more people? Or you are simply thinking of switching career/jobs, want to know some others that are working in the field you are interested. Welcome to attend TownFlame's another community engagement social event.
Summer welcomes another new crop of graduates in town. And Palo Alto happens to have its Festival of Arts around late August. So we are holding this community social events, helping people to meet each other, over local community gatherings.
For this one, we are going to borrow the Road To format we formulated in SF festivals, by having people walking side by side, chat with each other, while visiting some place of interest, in this case, the beautiful campus of Stanford. So when people actually get to the festival, they are already connected, not strangers any more.
Stanford happens to have free tour of its Cantor Arts Center on Saturdays at 1pm, and we are going to take advantage of that, attend the tour together and then go to the festival at downtown.
https://events.stanford.edu/event/copy-of-public-tour-cantor-highlights-1-pm-4356So come to see people, see Stanford, and meet some new faces.
Schedule:
Location: 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford, CA 94305
11:45am Meet in Cantor center of Arts Cafe
12:15pm Walk around the Oval and the Quad area
12:45pm Back to Center of Art
1pm Guided tour of Cantor Center of Arts
2pm Palo Alto downtown group lunch
Then form into groups, and visit the festival together.The festival of arts in Palo Alto is attended by 60k people every year. It is a nice time to stroll down university ave..
Parking usually is free during the weekend on the Stanford Campus, except residential lots.
Plus, we are expanding our team, if you would like to know more people while working in teams to help people get connected, in our programs like Golden Hour walk, Discover SF etc., let us know.
Join TownFlame, Make Life Happen.
Liability Waiver: Participation in TownFlame events is voluntary and involves social interaction in public spaces. Activities are designed to be inclusive and respectful. Participants assume all risks and release TownFlame, its organizers, volunteers, and affiliates from liability for injury, illness, or damages, except in cases of gross negligence or intentional misconduct.
By attending, participants acknowledge that photographs, audio, and video recordings may be taken during events, and grant TownFlame the right to use such media for promotional and marketing purposes, in any format or platform, without further consent or compensation.
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TownFlame Reunion -- Ferry trip to Angel Island
Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, USFrom our first SF event -- Pillow Fight in Embarcadero on Valentine's Day, it has been half a year already.
We have been growing from a small meetup of about 200 people to current size, we have walked many cultural parades and festivals, and volunteered in many of them, left our footprints across town, from Chinese New Year to Carnaval, from Embarcadero to Stern Grove.
For the coming next half year, we expect to start more localized regular programs, the Golden Hour walks, the Volunteer Parties, and at least one more format we are experimenting, and cross region activities as well. So people can meet each other more often, from different angles of life, familiarity and shared purpose birth relations.
So does our team, we expect to expand, on top of our current volunteer base. We have seen a lot of warm hearted people from our events, so we plan to grow our team, have more people involved, and do a builders' social internally. This is supposed to be a more intense and tighter version of the participant social we are having now. More regular gatherings, doing things together, team retreats etc, out of shared mission, on top of already established connections.
Time to reconnect again, pick up the topics you left in the group outing last time, refresh some familiar faces, and make some new plans. Peek over the event and time lane, find new opportunities. This is your chance, on the beautiful Angel Island, in the center of the bay.
So the reunion would be done via a ferry trip to Angel Island, from the Ferry Building, on the last Sat of this month, right before the Labor Day long weekend.
More details will be sent to our WhatsApp group. This is supposed to be a closed event, for our returning alumni and their friends only. We will mostly do a Partiful invite. If you are not in the WhatsApp group, let us know. We will update you.
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Past events
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