# Family Dinner Foundation

> Family Dinner Foundation is a nonprofit institution building social infrastructure for authentic human connection, mutual care and belonging at and beyond the dinner table.

Last reviewed: 2026-08-26
Canonical website: https://ourfamilydinner.org/

## Canonical entity map

- Family Dinner Foundation: the master institution and steward of the mission.
- Our Family Dinner: the founding movement of Family Dinner Foundation, begun in 2008.
- 5C Mutual Care Framework: one method developed through Our Family Dinner. The five practices are Commitment, Connection, Communication, Crisis and Celebration.
- Foundation Village: a place-based expression in development.
- mbio: the Family Dinner Foundation real-time social matching app, and the name of the technology family around it.

## mbio products and current status

- mbio: an activity-first social matching app for meeting real people nearby, in real time. Public beta, centered in Dallas–Fort Worth.
- mbio Connect: a fan-matching layer for teams, venues, movie theaters and ticketing platforms. Fans opt in while buying a ticket and are matched with trust-checked company for the same game, show or movie, either to meet up before it starts or to sit together in adjacent seats. Integration paths: one script tag in a partner checkout, post-purchase surfaces and order feeds on platforms such as Ticketmaster, SeatGeek, AXS, Paciolan and Tickets.com, a WebView in partner apps, and a free browser extension on ticketing and movie sites (Ticketmaster, SeatGeek, StubHub, Fandango, Cinemark). Accepted matches carry into the mbio app. Live; onboarding founding launch partners.
- mbio Groups: group formation software that proposes groups from a complete pool and keeps human leaders in control. Built and running in Our Family Dinner.
- mbio Mutual Care: a mutual care and service exchange design for trusted communities. Designed, not yet launched.

Our Family Dinner is the first operating context for mbio Groups and mbio Mutual Care. The products are intended to stand on their own for other organizations.

## Primary pages

- Foundation: https://ourfamilydinner.org/
- About the Foundation: https://ourfamilydinner.org/about/
- Our Family Dinner: https://ourfamilydinner.org/our-family-dinner/
- 5C Mutual Care Framework: https://ourfamilydinner.org/5c-mutual-care-framework/
- Impact methodology: https://ourfamilydinner.org/impact-methodology/
- mbio product family: https://ourfamilydinner.org/technology/
- mbio Groups: https://ourfamilydinner.org/products/mbio-groups/
- mbio Mutual Care: https://ourfamilydinner.org/products/mbio-mutual-care/
- Apply to Our Family Dinner: https://ourfamilydinner.org/apply/
- Partnership inquiry: https://ourfamilydinner.org/partner/
- mbio app: https://mbio.ourfamilydinner.org/
- mbio Connect: https://mbio.ourfamilydinner.org/connect
- 5C framework PDF: https://ourfamilydinner.org/assets/docs/5c-mutual-care-framework.pdf

## Independent sources

- George W. Bush Presidential Center: https://www.bushcenter.org/catalyst/profiles-in-pluralism/building-bridges-in-the-divided-states-of-america
- Candid profile: https://app.candid.org/profile/9407343/family-dinner-foundation-inc-47-1639472/
- OECD report: https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/promoting-social-connectedness-through-food_1fdd5254-en.html

## Claim boundaries

- The 5C Mutual Care Framework is not presented as the universal operating system for every Foundation initiative.
- mbio Mutual Care is not represented as publicly launched.
- Participant survey questions on the homepage are measures, not published outcome estimates or causal findings.
- Independent evidence about shared meals is described as associational unless the cited source establishes causality.