Common Good Missoula unites Missoulians across race, class, sexual orientation, political ideology and religion.

Wellbeing throughout our community requires everyday citizens, particularly the most impacted (black, indigenous, other people of color (BIPOC), our LGBTQ+ community, low-income individuals), meaningfully involved in creating the solutions shaping our community.

Our ideological and social silos are breeding divisiveness and polarization. At the same time, everyday people are disillusioned by participating as local citizens. These two trends, in the context of ongoing structural racism, create health and economic (wellbeing) disparities. Common Good addresses inequity by creating a large and racially/socially diverse network of everyday leaders working to address local challenges such as structural racism, lack of affordable housing, access to healthcare, and income inequality.

Common Good Missoula is an affiliate of IAF (Industrial Areas Foundation) Northwest and has 35 member organizations based in Missoula - All Nations Health Center, labor unions, faith communities, neighborhoods, and other non-profits. In our tradition, organizing is led by the people most directly affected by the issues the organization is working on. We continually build leadership from within our community, working to understand and address the root causes of the issues, not just the symptoms. We bring people together to build power they wouldn’t have individually and use that power to create systemic change, which includes altering unjust power relations. We see ourselves as part of a larger movement for social change, and work towards strengthening that movement.