With the help of experienced hosts throughout the global network our World Café Community Foundation team launched the new World Café online community space, which is growing at an astounding rate. With it, a much larger circle of World Café stewardship has evolved.

We helped pioneer a new way to host World Café conversations using teleconferencing, developed exciting initiatives in multi-generational collaboration and took the concept and practice of conversational leadership into a wide range of organizational settings. We saw new connections and friendships form and grow in Japan, Hungary, Russia, and other places around the world. World Café stewards hosted the opening cafe for the Dalai Lama's visit to Vancouver and participated in the birth of the European Salon in Austria. Doctoral students at the Fielding Graduate University and elsewhere began planning innovative action learning research projects focusing on World Cafe.

All this and more has been possible because of vital contributions of time, money, creativity, and goodwill from many people around the world. We are deeply grateful for all that has been given - and we're poised on the verge of new possibilities that your continued contributions can help realize. We are inviting all those whose lives, organizations, or communities have been enriched by the World Café to help support the next steps of our collective evolution. Together we can help ensure that "the gift of the World Café" continues to move.