Social connection

• Founder Zach Gotlib, a heart surgery survivor, aims to revolutionize patient-caregiver connections and shift the focus from individual to collective health.
• BandHealth, beyond its focus on health conditions, aspires to revolutionize patient-caregiver connections, marking just the beginning of transformative change in this space.
• Revolutionizing health support, BandHealth employs advanced algorithms to match individuals with similar health challenges, connecting them with trained health mentors who understand both their health concerns and personal backgrounds to deliver profound results.
• BandHealth, beyond its focus on health conditions, aspires to revolutionize patient-caregiver connections, marking just the beginning of transformative change in this space.

• The program launches with a $1M fund dedicated to tackling the loneliness epidemic by providing grants to social groups and organizations helping Gen Z find belonging and community in person.
• Hinge's new One More Hour™ social impact initiative is mobilizing Gen Z to add more in-person connection to their lives.
• Hinge is working with DoSomething Strategic and the Foundation for Social Connection to develop impact benchmarks for the program and identify the organizations.
• Additionally, One More Hour will work with a group of Gen Z judges to select the final awardees of the grants.

• The Social Connection in Australia 2023 report acknowledges loneliness hurts businesses, as it causes employee absenteeism and reduced productivity.
• However, people are often unaware particular work roles, environments, responsibilities and work-related relocation is often what causes loneliness.
• The expression “it is lonely at the top” suggests senior managers or chief executives are especially likely to suffer from loneliness.
• Having nobody to share the risks and responsibilities with is an implicit social deficiency that increases workplace loneliness.
• To stimulate more interest in this topic and to help ease this modern pandemic, our research, soon to be released，proposes resource-based solutions to combat loneliness.

Strategies for individuals

• Some may be happy with a few strong relationships, some may prefer broad but weak social connections.
• Understanding personal social goals helps employees notice when they might need to develop appropriate strategies to battle loneliness.
• As individuals, we cultivate our social connections, so we are the key to shaping them.
• Desired social relations are developed gradually, and we need work on this regularly to achieve our desired level of connection.

Strategies for companies

• Organisations need to acknowledge that work practices can cause loneliness for employees and find creative solutions.
• • Remove social barriers for employees by cultivating an inclusive work environment.
• These investments in alleviating workplace loneliness will result in employees having a stronger sense of belonging to organisations and being more productive.

• Hinge encourages daters to minimize distractions while dating, as more than 80% of users prefer phone-away dates.
• Recent Hinge research shows a desire by daters to create deeper connections as more than 80% of users prefer "phone away" dates.
• This guide will help our community focus on each other and have memorable first dates that lead to meaningful second dates," said Josh Penny, Hinge's Director of Social Impact.
• The guide is Hinge's latest effort to help reduce social isolation and loneliness and generate connections for all daters.