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Vanessa and her Block Party USA Back-to-School Challenge are featured in “Back to School, Back to Connection: Spotlight on Wilton, Connecticut” (Unplug Collaborative blog)

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Block Party USA Announces 2024 Back-to-School Challenge! Now…until September 30, 2024! (8/14/24)

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Building Stronger Neighborhoods, One Block Party at a Time – Block Party USA brings neighbors together for the common good, through good old-fashioned fun. Here’s how you can, too. (7/10/24 The Epoch Times)

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Block Party USA is featured as an organization creatively trying to balance giving kids individual freedom and a stable, tight-knit community. (6/6/24 The Boston Globe)

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Vanessa Elias – How to Throw a Block Party and Why You Should, plus her free guide and regular Zooms to help you make a block party happen (6/15/24 The Plural of You podcast with Josh Morgan)

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Wilton’s 2024 Block Party Weekends Return to Promote Neighborhood Connections and Children’s Free Play (5/31/24 Good Morning Wilton)

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Block Party USA announces Block Party Weekends! June 8–9, 2024 and September 7–8, 2024 (5/30/24)

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“Rebuild Social Trust: Weaving A New, Inclusive Social Fabric" featuring Vanessa Elias at We Give Summit 2024 (5/8/24)

Vanessa shares her story and how it led to Block Party USA in a PechaKucha-style presentation with 20 slides, 20 seconds on each. (3/5/24 Weave: The Social Fabric Project at the Aspen Institute)

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Vanessa Elias facilitates roundtable discussion about mattering and our achievement culture, hosted by Weston Human Services. (1/29/24 and 2/5/24 Weston Library)

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Sen. Chris Murphy hosts roundtable in Norwalk to combat loneliness where community leader Vanessa Elias shared her Block Party USA passion project.(12/9/23 The Hour)

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“Vanessa Elias Wants to Block Party (and You Can, Too!).” (Sept/Oct 2023 068 Magazine)

Wilton’s Big Block Party Weekend is featured as a powerful tool for positive change in NYT bestseller Never Enough.

Vanessa and her Block Party USA initiative in “How (and Why) to Throw a Block Party.” (7/11/23 Let Grow)

Block Party USA is “Kindling Hope with a Charcoal Grill” and Vanessa featured as a community weaver. (6/14/23 Weave: The Social Fabric Project at the Aspen Institute)

Vanessa’s initiative to build community through block parties in a new book. (5/12/23 Wilton Bulletin)

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Lenore Skenazy, Jonathan Haidt, and Vanessa at The Anxious Generation art installation by artist Dave Cicirelli. (March 2024, New York City)

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“I convened a meeting today in Norwalk of groups that are working on combating social isolation and loneliness.” (12/9/23 Senator Chris Murphy Instagram)

Vanessa and NYT bestselling author Jennifer Breheny Wallace at Never Enough book party. (Sept 2023)

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