COMMON TABLE FOUNDATION
EIN 02-0538138 · Student Services (B80)
What they do
COMMON TABLE: DIVISIVENESS and CONFLICT ARE FUELED BY THE INABILITY to SEE EACH OTHER AS PEOPLE, WITH MUCH MORE IN COMMON THAN WE ARE OFTEN LED to BELIEVE. WALTER CAPPS STATED THAT "WE ARE STRONGEST AS PEOPLE WHEN WE ARE DIRECTED BY THAT WHICH UNITES US, RATHER THAN GIVING INTO THE FEARS, SUSPICIONS, INNUENDOS and PARANOIAS THAT DIVIDE." SITTING DOWN for A MEAL TOGETHER is ONE of THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL WAYS to BRIDGE DIVISIONS and BUILD COMMUNITY. IT is A BASIC STARTING POINT TOWARD DEEPER UNDERSTANDING and RELATIONSHIP-BUILDING. COMMON TABLE REPRESENTS A GROWING NUMBER of RATHER UNCOMMON EVENTS AROUND THE COMMUNITY for DOING JUST THAT. NO SPEECHES, NO POLITICS, NO AWARDS JUST FOOD and CONVERSATION.
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About this charity
- Recognized since
- April 2002
- Location
- 315 MEIGS RD STE A412, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93109
- County
- Santa Barbara
- In care of
- TODD CAPPS